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... fact , Horace employs imus in the sense of " the end " in verses 126 and 152 of the Ars Poetica itself , note : " ( Persona ) servetur ad imum , " " Primo ne medium , medio ne discrepet imum . " Porphyrio's statement , too , is not to ...
... fact , Horace employs imus in the sense of " the end " in verses 126 and 152 of the Ars Poetica itself , note : " ( Persona ) servetur ad imum , " " Primo ne medium , medio ne discrepet imum . " Porphyrio's statement , too , is not to ...
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... fact is that to suit the context , and to preserve a proper balance with other illustrations , faber requires a quali- fying adjective which means " unskilful . " Horace's purpose in writing the Ars Poetica was to discourage from the ...
... fact is that to suit the context , and to preserve a proper balance with other illustrations , faber requires a quali- fying adjective which means " unskilful . " Horace's purpose in writing the Ars Poetica was to discourage from the ...
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... fact , in his famous Satire on the Vanity of Human Wishes , Juvenal implies that the blacksmith's life , though confessedly humble , might offer in the end more happiness and contentment than an illustrious career . It was dis adversis ...
... fact , in his famous Satire on the Vanity of Human Wishes , Juvenal implies that the blacksmith's life , though confessedly humble , might offer in the end more happiness and contentment than an illustrious career . It was dis adversis ...
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... fact , hints the epigrammatist , honesty in tavern - keepers was prevented by fate ; for Continuis vexata madet vindemia nimbis : 32 non potes , ut cupias , vendere , copo , merum.3 Petronius also , in jocund vein , notes the hand of ...
... fact , hints the epigrammatist , honesty in tavern - keepers was prevented by fate ; for Continuis vexata madet vindemia nimbis : 32 non potes , ut cupias , vendere , copo , merum.3 Petronius also , in jocund vein , notes the hand of ...
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... fact remains that commercialism was gaining enough recognition to be a cause for satire : fastidiousness in the choice of business occupations was disappearing , and there was beginning to be no distinction inter unguenta et corium . X ...
... fact remains that commercialism was gaining enough recognition to be a cause for satire : fastidiousness in the choice of business occupations was disappearing , and there was beginning to be no distinction inter unguenta et corium . X ...
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Page 33 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 3 - Apollo. natura fieret laudabile carmen an arte quaesitum est: ego nec studium sine divite vena nec rude quid prosit video ingenium; alterius sic 410 altera poscit opem res et coniurat amice.
Page 47 - ... munera nunc edunt et verso pollice vulgus cum iubet, occidunt populariter; inde reversi conducunt foricas, et cur non omnia? cum sint, quales ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum extollit quotiens voluit Fortuna iocari.
Page 28 - Varro, qui priore anno praetor fuerat, loco non humili solum, sed etiam sordido ortus. Patrem lanium fuisse ferunt, ipsum institorem mercis, filioque hoc ipso in servilia eius artis ministeria usum.
Page xiii - Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit, Callidus excusso populum suspendere naso.
Page 57 - Irasci nostro non debes, cerdo, libello. Ars tua, non vita est, carmine laesa meo. Innocuos permitte sales. Cur ludere nobis non liceat, licuit si iugulare tibi?
Page 2 - Aemilium circa ludum faber imus et unguis exprimet et mollis imitabitur aere capillos, infelix operis summa, quia ponere totum nesciet.
Page xi - POPULATION idea of the way in which he was employed, or earned a living. This is by no means an easy task, for these small people, as we have already seen, did not interest their educated fellow-citizens, and for this reason we hear hardly anything of them in the literature of the time. Not only a want of philanthropic feeling in their betters, but an inherited contempt for all small industry and retail dealing, has helped to hide them away from us...
Page 30 - Equum empturus solvi iubes stratum, detrahis vestimenta venalibus, ne qua vitia corporis lateant: hominem involutum aestimas? Mangones quicquid est, quod displiceat, aliquo lenocinio abscondunt, itaque ementibus ornamenta ipsa suspecta sunt : sive crus alligatum sive brachium adspiceres, ionudari iuberes et ipsum tibi corpus ostendi.
Page 92 - Cinnam, Cinname, te iubes vocari. Non est hic, rogo, Cinna, barbarismus? Tu si Furius ante dictus esses, fur ista ratione dicereris 1.