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... ears , are resplendent with precious stones ; she plasters her face with bread - poultices and Poppaean pastes which stick to her husband's lips when he gives her a kiss . She never cares to look well at home ; it is for lovers only ...
... ears , are resplendent with precious stones ; she plasters her face with bread - poultices and Poppaean pastes which stick to her husband's lips when he gives her a kiss . She never cares to look well at home ; it is for lovers only ...
Page lix
... ear , expounding the holy laws of her tribe : she inter- prets or invents dreams for the smallest of coins . An Armenian or Syrian soothsayer , manipulating a pigeon's liver , promises her a youthful lover , or the inheritance of some ...
... ear , expounding the holy laws of her tribe : she inter- prets or invents dreams for the smallest of coins . An Armenian or Syrian soothsayer , manipulating a pigeon's liver , promises her a youthful lover , or the inheritance of some ...
Page 11
... ears would testify though I myself denied it — yet I am the owner of five shops which bring me in four hundred thou- sand sesterces.1 What better thing does the Broad Purple bestow if a Corvinus herds sheep for daily wage in the ...
... ears would testify though I myself denied it — yet I am the owner of five shops which bring me in four hundred thou- sand sesterces.1 What better thing does the Broad Purple bestow if a Corvinus herds sheep for daily wage in the ...
Page 41
... ear one particle of his own and his country's poison , I am thrust from the door , and all my long years of servitude go for nothing . Nowhere is it so easy as at Rome to throw an old client over- board . 126 " And besides , not to ...
... ear one particle of his own and his country's poison , I am thrust from the door , and all my long years of servitude go for nothing . Nowhere is it so easy as at Rome to throw an old client over- board . 126 " And besides , not to ...
Page 47
... ears . No , no , I must live where there are no fires , no nightly alarms . Ucalegon below is already shouting for water and shifting his chattels ; smoke is pouring out of your third - floor attic above , but you know nothing of it ...
... ears . No , no , I must live where there are no fires , no nightly alarms . Ucalegon below is already shouting for water and shifting his chattels ; smoke is pouring out of your third - floor attic above , but you know nothing of it ...
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Page 198 - Augustum. iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli vendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, 80 panem et circenses. 'perituros audio multos.
Page 318 - ... quo didicisse, nisi hoc fermentum et quae semel intus innata est rupto iecore exierit caprificus?' 25 en pallor seniumque! o mores, usque adeone scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? 'at pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est." ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse pro nihilo pendes?
Page 328 - Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit, Callidus excusso populum suspendere naso. Men' mutire nefas, nee clam, nee cum scrobe?
Page 220 - ... animum, mortis terrore carentem, qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores, nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil, et potiores 360 Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores et Venere et cenis et pluma Sardauapalli.
Page 386 - Jus habet ille sui palpo quem ducit hiantem Cretata ambitio ? Vigila, et cicer ingere large Rixanti populo, nostra ut Floralia possint Aprici meminisse senes...
Page 318 - ... serena ingentis trepidare Titos, cum carmina lumbum 20 intrant et tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu. tun, vetule, auriculis alienis colligis escas, articulis quibus et dicas cute perditus 'ohe'?
Page 36 - ... ite, quibus grata est picta lupa barbara mitra. rusticus ille tuus sumit trechedipna, Quirine, et ceromatico fert niceteria collo.
Page 316 - O CURAS hominum, o quantum est in rebus inane ! " "quis leget haec ? " " min tu istud ais ? nemo hercule." " nemo ?
Page 334 - Haud cuivis promptum est murmurque humilesque susurros Tollere de templis et aperto vivere voto. Mens bona, fama, fides...
Page 320 - Quisquis es, o modo quem ex adverso dicere feci, Non ego, quum scribo, si forte quid aptius exit, (Quando haec rara avis est) si quid tamen aptius exit', Laudari metuam ; neque enim mihi cornea fibra est. Sed recti finemque extremumque esse recuso EUGE tuum et BELLE. Nam BELLE hoc excute totum : Quid non intus habet?