Juvenal and Persius, Volume 1J. Vincent, 1839 |
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... Nero , pleaded causes with great reputation . About his middle age he applied himself to the study of Poetry ; and , as he saw a daily increase of vice and folly , he addicted himself to writing Satire : but , having said something ...
... Nero , pleaded causes with great reputation . About his middle age he applied himself to the study of Poetry ; and , as he saw a daily increase of vice and folly , he addicted himself to writing Satire : but , having said something ...
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... Nero . -His shoulder recalling . ] Revocan- te - The Romans used to fasten their cloaks round the neck with a loop , but in hot weather , perhaps , usually went with them loose . As Juvenal is now speaking of the summer season , ( as ap ...
... Nero . -His shoulder recalling . ] Revocan- te - The Romans used to fasten their cloaks round the neck with a loop , but in hot weather , perhaps , usually went with them loose . As Juvenal is now speaking of the summer season , ( as ap ...
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... Nero , as Automedon was to Achilles , and who , after wasting his substance in riotous living , was made commander of a regiment ; or Tigillinus , an infamous favourite of Nero's , be here designed , whose character is supposed to have ...
... Nero , as Automedon was to Achilles , and who , after wasting his substance in riotous living , was made commander of a regiment ; or Tigillinus , an infamous favourite of Nero's , be here designed , whose character is supposed to have ...
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... 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 much as he could , re- semble a woman , and whom he used as a ...
... 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 much as he could , re- semble a woman , and whom he used as a ...
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... Nero's , who poisoned three uncles , and , by forging their wills , made himself heir to all they had . 68. By small tables . ] Short testaments , contained in a few words . Comp . note on 1. 63 . -A wet gem . ] i . e . A seal , which ...
... Nero's , who poisoned three uncles , and , by forging their wills , made himself heir to all they had . 68. By small tables . ] Short testaments , contained in a few words . Comp . note on 1. 63 . -A wet gem . ] i . e . A seal , which ...
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Page 22 - Navigio montem ascendit sortesque poposcit, Paulatimque anima caluerunt mollia saxa, Et maribus nudas ostendit Pyrrha puellas, Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Page 182 - Pone crucem servo: meruit quo crimine servus Supplicium ? quis testis adest ? quis detulit ? audi : Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est.
Page 302 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
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.
Page 176 - Quis feret uxorem, cui constant omnia? malo, Malo Venusinam, quam te, Cornelia mater Gracchorum, si cum magnis virtutibus affers Grande supercilium et numeras in dote triumphos.
Page 125 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young. The jolly god in triumph comes ; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums ; Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath ; he comes, he comes.
Page 194 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
Page 108 - For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Page 234 - Sed vatem egregium, cui non sit publica vena, Qui nihil expositum soleat deducere, nee qui Communi feriat carmen triviale moneta...
Page 132 - Vicit digna viro sententia. Noverat ille 135 Luxuriam imperii veterem, noctesque Neronis Jam medias, aliamque famem, quum pulmo Falerno Arderet. Nulli major fuit usus edendi Tempestate mea. Circeis nata forent, an Lucrinum ad saxum, Rutupinove edita fundo 140 Ostrea, callebat primo deprendere morsu ; Et semel adspecti littus dicebat echini.