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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... perhaps , be serviceable to many , who will not come within the reach of higher instruction . 66 Bishop Burnet observes , that the " satirical poets , Horace , " Juvenal , and Persius , may contribute wonderfully to give a man a ...
... perhaps , be serviceable to many , who will not come within the reach of higher instruction . 66 Bishop Burnet observes , that the " satirical poets , Horace , " Juvenal , and Persius , may contribute wonderfully to give a man a ...
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... perhaps the most , are my own , by which , if I have been happy enough to supply any deficiencies of others , I shall be glad . Upon the whole , I am , from long observation , most per- fectly convinced , that the early disgust , which ...
... perhaps the most , are my own , by which , if I have been happy enough to supply any deficiencies of others , I shall be glad . Upon the whole , I am , from long observation , most per- fectly convinced , that the early disgust , which ...
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... perhaps , to some play , or poem , on the amours of Boreas and Orithyia , the daughter of Erectheus , king of Athens . 10. Eacus may be tormenting . ] Eacus was one of the fabled judges of hell , who with his two assessors , Minos and ...
... perhaps , to some play , or poem , on the amours of Boreas and Orithyia , the daughter of Erectheus , king of Athens . 10. Eacus may be tormenting . ] Eacus was one of the fabled judges of hell , who with his two assessors , Minos and ...
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... . 25. Who clipping , & c . ] The person here meant is supposed to be Licinius , Perhaps you will ask , the freedman and barber of Augustus , Have given counsel to Sylla , that , a private 14 SAT . 1 . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
... . 25. Who clipping , & c . ] The person here meant is supposed to be Licinius , Perhaps you will ask , the freedman and barber of Augustus , Have given counsel to Sylla , that , a private 14 SAT . 1 . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
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... perhaps Cinnamus . See sat . x . 1 . 225 , 6 . -Sounded . ] Alluding to the sound of clipping the beard with scissars . Q. D. who with his scissars clipped my beard , when I was a young man , and first came under the barber's hands . 26 ...
... perhaps Cinnamus . See sat . x . 1 . 225 , 6 . -Sounded . ] Alluding to the sound of clipping the beard with scissars . Q. D. who with his scissars clipped my beard , when I was a young man , and first came under the barber's hands . 26 ...
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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.