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Page 117
... ought to have laid down the dictatorship , and retired to private life , or to have continued at the head of the Roman state . It may be supposed to have been couched in the following form : Deliberat Sulla , an NOTES ON SAT . I. 117.
... ought to have laid down the dictatorship , and retired to private life , or to have continued at the head of the Roman state . It may be supposed to have been couched in the following form : Deliberat Sulla , an NOTES ON SAT . I. 117.
Page 119
... head , so that a person could read or write in it with ease . It was carried by means of poles , supported on the shoulders of slaves.- Plena ipso . " Full of his important self . " An allusion , not to cor- pulence , as some think ...
... head , so that a person could read or write in it with ease . It was carried by means of poles , supported on the shoulders of slaves.- Plena ipso . " Full of his important self . " An allusion , not to cor- pulence , as some think ...
Page 132
... heads : That Flattery and Vice are the only thriving arts at Rome . In these , especially the first , foreigners have a manifest ad- vantage over the natives , and , consequently , engross all favour : that the poor are universally ...
... heads : That Flattery and Vice are the only thriving arts at Rome . In these , especially the first , foreigners have a manifest ad- vantage over the natives , and , consequently , engross all favour : that the poor are universally ...
Page 135
... head beneath the mistress - spear . " Liter- ally , " to offer the venal head , " & c . The spear was set up in the forum to show that an auction was going on there NOTES ON SAT . III . 135.
... head beneath the mistress - spear . " Liter- ally , " to offer the venal head , " & c . The spear was set up in the forum to show that an auction was going on there NOTES ON SAT . III . 135.
Page 143
... head had been struck off by Perseus . His sire was Neptune , who had appeared unto the Gorgon in the form of a horse or a bird . Juvenal shows his contempt for every thing Grecian by applying the term caballus , which properly means a ...
... head had been struck off by Perseus . His sire was Neptune , who had appeared unto the Gorgon in the form of a horse or a bird . Juvenal shows his contempt for every thing Grecian by applying the term caballus , which properly means a ...
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Page 99 - Quis datus, aut metae quam mollis flexus, et unde ? Quis modus argento ? quid fas optare? quid asper Utile nummus habet? patriae carisque propinquis 70 Quantum elargiri deceat ? quem te deus esse Jussit, et humana qua parte locatus es in re?
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Page 100 - Hesterni capite induto subiere Quirites. ' Tange miser venas, et pone in pectore dextram: Nil calet hie : summosque pedes attinge manusque : Non frigent.
Page 94 - Ecce avia, aut metuens divum matertera, cunis Exemit puerum, frontemque atque uda labella Infami digito et lustralibus ante salivis Expiat, urentes oculos inhibere perita.
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Page 90 - ... 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 97 - Contemnere, sonat vitium percussa, maligne Respondet viridi non cocta fidelia limo. Udum et molle lutum es, nunc nunc properandus, et acri Fingendus sine fine rota.