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 1 |
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Put out your head . ] i.e. Out of doles , are , or ought to be , supplied with the litter ,
that I may see you are there , clothes , meat , and fire . What will these says the
dispenser of the dole . do , when the means of their support is 126. Don't vex her .
Put out your head . ] i.e. Out of doles , are , or ought to be , supplied with the litter ,
that I may see you are there , clothes , meat , and fire . What will these says the
dispenser of the dole . do , when the means of their support is 126. Don't vex her .
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Galla , put out your head ” _ " don't vex her she is asleep . " The day itself is
distinguished by a beautiful order of things : The sportula , then the forum , and
Apollo learned in the law , And the triumphals : among which , an Egyptian , I
know not ...
Galla , put out your head ” _ " don't vex her she is asleep . " The day itself is
distinguished by a beautiful order of things : The sportula , then the forum , and
Apollo learned in the law , And the triumphals : among which , an Egyptian , I
know not ...
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... they wore around nuations of vice deceive the conscience , their heads on
these occasions , and they first blind and then harden it , un which , at other times
, were hung up til the greatest crimes are committed about the house , as part of
the ...
... they wore around nuations of vice deceive the conscience , their heads on
these occasions , and they first blind and then harden it , un which , at other times
, were hung up til the greatest crimes are committed about the house , as part of
the ...
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They Aleppo , thus described by Dr. Shaw and left vast quantities of thick and
long Dr. Russel . hair upon their heads , the better to re• Their method of doing it
is , by a semble women , and all this they stuffed cylindrical piece of silver , steel ,
or ...
They Aleppo , thus described by Dr. Shaw and left vast quantities of thick and
long Dr. Russel . hair upon their heads , the better to re• Their method of doing it
is , by a semble women , and all this they stuffed cylindrical piece of silver , steel ,
or ...
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A thong , or leather called Latium , from lateo , to lie hid ; strap , secretly contrived
, so as by pull- Saturn being said to have hidden himing it to make the image nod
its head ; self there , when he fled from his son Juto the no small comfort of the ...
A thong , or leather called Latium , from lateo , to lie hid ; strap , secretly contrived
, so as by pull- Saturn being said to have hidden himing it to make the image nod
its head ; self there , when he fled from his son Juto the no small comfort of the ...
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Page 287 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 300 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
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Page 192 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
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Page 200 - Elissae, 435 committit vates et comparat, inde Maronem atque alia parte in trutina suspendit Homerum.
Page 194 - Sunt quas eunuchi imbelles ac mollia semper Oscula delectent .et desperatio barbae, Et quod abortivo non est opus.
Page 232 - Pierio thyrsumque potest contingere maesta 60 paupertas atque aeris inops, quo nocte dieque corpus eget : satur est cum dicit Horatius " euhoe ! " quis locus ingenio, nisi cum se carmine solo vexant et dominis Cirrhae Nysaeque feruntur pectora...
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.