Selections from the Satires of Juvenal: To which is Added the Fifth Satire of PersiusEldredge & brother, 1880 - 286 pages |
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Page 5
... Roman boy and youth , attending a school of rhetoric after the grammar - school . He took the toga virilis about the be- ginning of Vespasian's reign , A. D. 70 , and having learnt rhetoric , continued to practise it as a man , not ...
... Roman boy and youth , attending a school of rhetoric after the grammar - school . He took the toga virilis about the be- ginning of Vespasian's reign , A. D. 70 , and having learnt rhetoric , continued to practise it as a man , not ...
Page 9
... Roman society in the time when they were written . They are the indignant voice of a live man lashing real vices of real men . The satires of the other class are declamations on stock themes , illustrated by stock characters ...
... Roman society in the time when they were written . They are the indignant voice of a live man lashing real vices of real men . The satires of the other class are declamations on stock themes , illustrated by stock characters ...
Page 10
... Roman society in the im- perial times was full . We have more reason to doubt whether all the satires as we have them received their author's final touches and editorial revision . Carelessness may account for some of the faults which ...
... Roman society in the im- perial times was full . We have more reason to doubt whether all the satires as we have them received their author's final touches and editorial revision . Carelessness may account for some of the faults which ...
Page 11
... Roman life are brought before us with the vivid touches of a Defoe or a Swift . They are ' sketches ' in the modern sense ; and I know of nothing exactly resembling them in any other ancient author . The modes of expression , again ...
... Roman life are brought before us with the vivid touches of a Defoe or a Swift . They are ' sketches ' in the modern sense ; and I know of nothing exactly resembling them in any other ancient author . The modes of expression , again ...
Page 12
... Romans on hearing of the fall of Sejanus , ' Believe me , there was something about that man which I never liked ... Roman literature , while modern literature fur- nishes much that is akin to it . " OF THE UNIVERSITY Of CALIFORNI D ...
... Romans on hearing of the fall of Sejanus , ' Believe me , there was something about that man which I never liked ... Roman literature , while modern literature fur- nishes much that is akin to it . " OF THE UNIVERSITY Of CALIFORNI D ...
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Achilles adeo Ajax aliquid Apicius atque Augustus called cena Cicero Cimbri clients Conington consul cujus dative Domitian domus eadem editors emperor enim ergo erit give gods Greek habet haec Hermann hinc honor hunc idem illa ille illic illis illo inde inquit ipse ipsi Jahn Juvenal Juvenal's Kiær lacerna licet Macleane Madvig magna magni Marius Marius Priscus Mayor mihi modo nemo Nero nihil nocte nomen nulla numquam nunc omnes omni omnia patron Persius pictae Plin poet poor praetor puer pueri puero quae quam quantum quibus quid Quintilian quis quod quoque retiarius Ribbeck rich Roman Rome satire says scholiast Sejanus Servius Tullius sibi slaves Subura summa sunt tamen tantum thermae Tiberius tibi translation tunc venit Verg verse viii vitae Weidner wine word
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Page 54 - Esto bonus miles , tutor bonus , arbiter idem Integer: ambiguae si quando citabere testis 80 Incertaeque rei, Phalaris licet imperet, ut sis - Falsus, et admoto dictet periuria tauro, Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
Page 20 - Umbricius, Quando artibus, inquit, honestis Nullus in Urbe locus, nulla emolumenta laborum, Res hodie minor est, here quam fuit, atque eadem eras Deteret exiguis aliquid...
Page 63 - Augustum. iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli vendimus, effudit curas ; nam qui dabat olim imperium fasces legiones omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, 80 panem et circenses."
Page 249 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 21 - Trallibus aut Alabandis, 70 Esquilias dictumque petunt a vimine collem, Viscera magnarum domuum dominique futuri. Ingenium velox, audacia perdita, sermo Promptus et Isaeo torrentior. Ede quid ilium Esse putes ? quem vis hominem secum attulit ad nos : 75 Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes, Augur, schoenobates, medicus, magus : omnia novit. Graeculus esuriens in caelum jusseris ibit.
Page 114 - Unde datum hoc sumis , tot subdite rebus? an dominum ignoras , nisi quem vindicta relaxat? 125 I puer , et strigiles Crispini ad balnea defer, si increpuit, cessas nugator?
Page 112 - Mille hominum species et rerum discolor usus; Velle suum cuique est, nee vo^to vivitur uno.
Page 62 - Consul Ne placeat, curru servus portatur eodem. Da nunc et volucrem, sceptro quae surgit eburno, Illinc cornicines, hinc praecedentia longi Agminis officia et niveos ad fraena Quirites, 45 Defossa in loculis quos sportula fecit amicos.
Page 115 - Mane piger stertis. Surge, inquit Avaritia ; heia Surge. Negas, instat, Surge, inquit.