A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes, by which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Volume 1T. Tegg, 1829 - Latin poetry |
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... emperor Domitian gave so much encouragement to such people , that many made their fortunes by secret informations ; inso- much that nobody was safe , however in- nocent ; even one informer was afraid of another . See below , 1. 35 , 6 ...
... emperor Domitian gave so much encouragement to such people , that many made their fortunes by secret informations ; inso- much that nobody was safe , however in- nocent ; even one informer was afraid of another . See below , 1. 35 , 6 ...
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... emperor Caligula instituted , at this place , games , wherein orators and rhetoricians were to contend for a prize . Those , whose per- formances were not approved , were to wipe them out with a spunge , or to lick them out with their ...
... emperor Caligula instituted , at this place , games , wherein orators and rhetoricians were to contend for a prize . Those , whose per- formances were not approved , were to wipe them out with a spunge , or to lick them out with their ...
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... emperor's villa ; and all this , because , when a boy , he had been Nero's charioteer , or , as the poet humourously calls him , his Auto- medon , and used to drive out Nero and his minion Sporus , whom Nero castrated , to make him , as ...
... emperor's villa ; and all this , because , when a boy , he had been Nero's charioteer , or , as the poet humourously calls him , his Auto- medon , and used to drive out Nero and his minion Sporus , whom Nero castrated , to make him , as ...
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... emperor . -Occurs . ] Meets you in the public street , and thus occurs to the observation of the satirist . Comp . 1. 63 , 4 . 69. Calenian wine . ] Calenum was a city in the kingdom of Naples , famous for a soft kind of wine . 70 ...
... emperor . -Occurs . ] Meets you in the public street , and thus occurs to the observation of the satirist . Comp . 1. 63 , 4 . 69. Calenian wine . ] Calenum was a city in the kingdom of Naples , famous for a soft kind of wine . 70 ...
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... emperor , who , by being informers , and by other scandalous actions , had enriched themselves . -Probity is praised , & c . ] This seems a proverbial saying , and applies to what goes before , as well as to what follows , wherein the ...
... emperor , who , by being informers , and by other scandalous actions , had enriched themselves . -Probity is praised , & c . ] This seems a proverbial saying , and applies to what goes before , as well as to what follows , wherein the ...
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Page 3 - The satyrical Poets, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius, may contribute wonderfully to give a man a detestation of vice, and a contempt of the common methods of mankind; which they have set out in such true colours, that they must give a very generous sense to those who delight in reading them often. Persius his second satyr may well pass for one of the best lectures in divinity.