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 2T. Tegg, 1829 - Latin poetry |
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... verse of Tully's , ( in which " he sets out the happiness of his own " consulship , ) famous for the vanity and " ill poetry of it . " It is bad enough ; but Mr. Dryden has made it still worse , by adding more jingles to it . However ...
... verse of Tully's , ( in which " he sets out the happiness of his own " consulship , ) famous for the vanity and " ill poetry of it . " It is bad enough ; but Mr. Dryden has made it still worse , by adding more jingles to it . However ...
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... verses making a doubtful palm . 181 What does it signify with what voice such verses may be read ? But now leave off business , your cares deferr'd , And give yourself grateful rest , since you may Be idle throughout the whole day of ...
... verses making a doubtful palm . 181 What does it signify with what voice such verses may be read ? But now leave off business , your cares deferr'd , And give yourself grateful rest , since you may Be idle throughout the whole day of ...
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... verses in public . It also signifies a scaffold , or raised place , on which the actors exhibited plays . The prætor is here called lautuş—— 270 high place , out of which the petauristæ ( 152 SAT . XIV . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
... verses in public . It also signifies a scaffold , or raised place , on which the actors exhibited plays . The prætor is here called lautuş—— 270 high place , out of which the petauristæ ( 152 SAT . XIV . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
Page 167
... verse ones in leathern bags , and hung them up in Ulysses's ship , leaving at liberty the west wind , which was fa- vourable . But the companions of Ulys- ses untied the bags , being curious to know what they contained , and let out the ...
... verse ones in leathern bags , and hung them up in Ulysses's ship , leaving at liberty the west wind , which was fa- vourable . But the companions of Ulys- ses untied the bags , being curious to know what they contained , and let out the ...
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... verses deliver . ] You may , after the history which I have given you of the Tentyrites , believe any thing that the poets have written on the subject of cruelty . He alludes to EURIP . Trag . Iphig . in Tauris . 118. Nothing beyond ...
... verses deliver . ] You may , after the history which I have given you of the Tentyrites , believe any thing that the poets have written on the subject of cruelty . He alludes to EURIP . Trag . Iphig . in Tauris . 118. Nothing beyond ...
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Page 218 - Naribus indulges. An erit, qui velle recuset Os populi meruisse; et, cedro digna locutus, Linquere nee scombros metuentia carmina, nee thus?
Page 12 - 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 42 - Nil ergo optabunt homines ?" Si consilium vis, Permittes ipsis expendere numinibus, quid Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris. Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt Di. Carior est illis homo, quam sibi.
Page 206 - Venter, negatas artifex sequi voces. Quod si dolosi spes refulserit nummi, Corvos poetas et poetrias picas Cantare credas Pegasei'um nectar. SATIRA I. ' O CURAS hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane! Quis leget haec V Min' tu istud ais ?
Page 214 - Intrant, et tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu. Tun', vetule, auriculis alienis colligis escas? Auriculis, quibus et dicas cute perditus, ohe?
Page 313 - Darby's pot's out, His Joan will not smoke a whiff more. No beauty nor wit they possess, Their several failings to smother ; Then what are the charms, can you guess. That make them so fond of each other ? 'Tis the pleasing remembrance of youth, The endearments which youth did...
Page 94 - Temporibus, quorum sceleri non invenit ipsa Nomen, et a nullo posuit natura metallo.
Page 304 - Tolle recens primus piper e sitiente camelo. Verte aliquid : jura. ' Sed Jupiter audiet.' Eheu! Baro, regustatum digito terebrare salinum Contentus perages, si vivere cum Jove tendis.
Page 296 - An quisquam est alius liber, nisi ducere vitam cui licet, ut voluit ? licet ut volo vivere : non sum liberior Bruto ? ' " Mendose colligis," inquit 85 stoicus hie, aurem mordaci lotus aceto ; " haec reliqua accipio ; licet illud et ut volo tolle.
Page 220 - Quis populi sermo est? quis enim ? % nisi carmina molli Nunc demum numero fluere, ut per leve severos EfTundat junctura ungues : scit tendere versum 65 Non secus, ac si oculo rubricam dirigat uno. Sive opus in mores, in luxum, in prandia regum, Dicere, res grandes nostro dat Musa poe'tae.