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
... references to the personal history of their author in the Satires themselves ; for the reticent Juvenal is very unlike the confiding Hor- ace , who wears his heart upon his sleeve . Putting together such scanty indications of the facts ...
... references to the personal history of their author in the Satires themselves ; for the reticent Juvenal is very unlike the confiding Hor- ace , who wears his heart upon his sleeve . Putting together such scanty indications of the facts ...
Page 125
... references in classical writers . 18. Vatibus , bards ; here used satirically . In the time of Ennius vates was used contemptuously of those poets who adhered to the old Saturnian measure , while those who adopted the more artistic mea ...
... references in classical writers . 18. Vatibus , bards ; here used satirically . In the time of Ennius vates was used contemptuously of those poets who adhered to the old Saturnian measure , while those who adopted the more artistic mea ...
Page 127
... reference is probably to any notorious informer . 34 sq . Cito - superest , about to clutch , ere long , all that remains of the devoured nobility . — Nobilitas nobiles . " So levis armatura , juventus , mortalitas , peregrinitas ...
... reference is probably to any notorious informer . 34 sq . Cito - superest , about to clutch , ere long , all that remains of the devoured nobility . — Nobilitas nobiles . " So levis armatura , juventus , mortalitas , peregrinitas ...
Page 136
... reference being made to Nero's execution of the Christians ( whom he falsely charged with setting fire to Rome , to avert the odium of the crime from himself and his favorite ) , by covering their bodies with tar and setting fire to ...
... reference being made to Nero's execution of the Christians ( whom he falsely charged with setting fire to Rome , to avert the odium of the crime from himself and his favorite ) , by covering their bodies with tar and setting fire to ...
Page 144
... reference to time . ... The Orientals have little or no ear for music ; and on lower ground than Umbricius takes , he might have run away from the music of Eastern flageolets , harps , and drums . They were probably such as are still in ...
... reference to time . ... The Orientals have little or no ear for music ; and on lower ground than Umbricius takes , he might have run away from the music of Eastern flageolets , harps , and drums . They were probably such as are still in ...
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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.