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Page xiii
... nature of a preface , was written after the rest of Book i . Such are the only certain indications as to date which can be discovered in Juvenal's own words . They suggest that the literary period of his life ( apart from his earlier ...
... nature of a preface , was written after the rest of Book i . Such are the only certain indications as to date which can be discovered in Juvenal's own words . They suggest that the literary period of his life ( apart from his earlier ...
Page xxiv
... natural meaning in the endeavour to prove that the poet was born at the town of Luna on the Gulf of Spezzia , on the Genoese coast , near the famous marble quarries of Carrara . Having migrated to that delicious spot for the winter ...
... natural meaning in the endeavour to prove that the poet was born at the town of Luna on the Gulf of Spezzia , on the Genoese coast , near the famous marble quarries of Carrara . Having migrated to that delicious spot for the winter ...
Page xxvi
... enamoured of the charms of peace after the horrors of civil war , and persuading themselves that Augustus was the natural successor , representative , and restorer of all that was best in ancient Rome , succeeded for a xxvi INTRODUCTION.
... enamoured of the charms of peace after the horrors of civil war , and persuading themselves that Augustus was the natural successor , representative , and restorer of all that was best in ancient Rome , succeeded for a xxvi INTRODUCTION.
Page xxvii
... nature . But they had no successors . Reposing gladly under the paternal sway of Augustus during his later years ... natural results followed in every department of human life and thought . Deprived of the inspiration of reality ...
... nature . But they had no successors . Reposing gladly under the paternal sway of Augustus during his later years ... natural results followed in every department of human life and thought . Deprived of the inspiration of reality ...
Page xxxiv
... natural in one who was always looking back to the worthies of old Rome for examples , are pressed upon us with a frequency and an emphasis which seem excessive . His belief in the virtue of primitive times ; his hatred of the foreigner ...
... natural in one who was always looking back to the worthies of old Rome for examples , are pressed upon us with a frequency and an emphasis which seem excessive . His belief in the virtue of primitive times ; his hatred of the foreigner ...
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Page 316 - O CURAS hominum, o quantum est in rebus inane ! " "quis leget haec ? " " min tu istud ais ? nemo hercule." " nemo ?
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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?