Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, Volumes 1-2

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Cornell University Press, 1887 - Classical philology

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Page 89 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, : Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 82 - Ac fuit antea tempus, cum Germanos Galli virtute superarent, ultro bella inferrent, propter hominum multitudinem agrique inopiam trans Rhenum colonias mitterent.
Page 206 - Euripidis versus, quos sic ipse convertit: " Nam si violandum est ius, regnandi * gratia violandum est ; aliis rebus pietatem colas.
Page 155 - And all their echoes mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose...
Page 19 - Ad rivum eundem lupus et agnus venerant Siti compulsi ; superior stabat lupus Longeque inferior agnus. Tune fauce improba Latro incitatus iurgii causam intulit. 'Cur' inquit ' turbulentam fecisti mihi Aquam bibenti ? ' Laniger contra timens : ' Qui possum, quaeso, facere, quod quereris, lupe ? F. p. i A te decurrit ad meos haustus liquor.
Page 154 - Is it not amazing, that at a time, when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty, that in such an age, and...
Page 138 - Pompeius tenui iugulos aperire susurro, no et qui vulturibus servabat viscera Dacis Fuscus, marmorea meditatus proelia villa, et cum mortifero prudens Veiento Catullo, qui numquam visae flagrabat amore puellae, grande et conspicuum nostro quoque tempore monstrum, 115 caecus adulator dirusque a ponte satelles, dignus Aricinos qui mendicaret ad axes blandaque devexae iactaret basia raedae.
Page 102 - Sabina matre ortum nobilemque una imagine Numae esse. Facile persuadet ut cupido honorum, et cui Tarquinii materna tantum patria esset. Sublatis itaque rebus amigrant Romam.
Page 226 - Di patrii, quorum semper sub numine Troia est, non tamen omnino Teucros delere paratis, cum talis animos iuvenum et tam certa tulistis pectora.
Page 111 - Sunt autem multi, et quidem cupidi splendoris et gloriae, qui eripiunt aliis, quod aliis largiantur, iique arbitrantur se beneficos in suos amicos visum iri, si locupletent eos quacumque ratione. Id autem tantum abest ab 1 officio, ut nihil magis officio possit esse contrarium.

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