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Page xxxiv
... Persius to come to an early dinner at twelve and hear Homer and Virgil - a form of dissi- pation , in Juvenal's judgment , too exciting to be indulged in often . Perhaps the clearest trace of all is the pretty and sympa- thetic ...
... Persius to come to an early dinner at twelve and hear Homer and Virgil - a form of dissi- pation , in Juvenal's judgment , too exciting to be indulged in often . Perhaps the clearest trace of all is the pretty and sympa- thetic ...
Page xxxv
... Persius was too good a Stoic to be annoyed by the general unwisdom except so far as it presented a temptation to himself . So far as they have a serious purpose ( and Persius is very serious ) they preach where Juvenal denounces . It ...
... Persius was too good a Stoic to be annoyed by the general unwisdom except so far as it presented a temptation to himself . So far as they have a serious purpose ( and Persius is very serious ) they preach where Juvenal denounces . It ...
Page xxxvi
... Persius , with all his gravity and his pathetic anxiety for self - improve- ment , has a strong sense of the propriety of enjoying life , and even of exhibiting gladiators as often as the emperor thought proper to gazette a victory ...
... Persius , with all his gravity and his pathetic anxiety for self - improve- ment , has a strong sense of the propriety of enjoying life , and even of exhibiting gladiators as often as the emperor thought proper to gazette a victory ...
Page xxxvii
... Persius is firmly convinced all the while that nothing but the teaching of those despised Greeks can save his fashionable contemporaries from the bondage of feverish desire , and the ruinous consciousness of growing degra- dation . Nor ...
... Persius is firmly convinced all the while that nothing but the teaching of those despised Greeks can save his fashionable contemporaries from the bondage of feverish desire , and the ruinous consciousness of growing degra- dation . Nor ...
Page xxxviii
... Persius , rather than plead guilty to the charge of having borrowed nothing from Greece , should have chosen to represent themselves as con- tinuators of Aristophanes . It is characteristic of Roman society that the satura of Ennius ...
... Persius , rather than plead guilty to the charge of having borrowed nothing from Greece , should have chosen to represent themselves as con- tinuators of Aristophanes . It is characteristic of Roman society that the satura of Ennius ...
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