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 1T. Tegg, 1829 - Latin poetry |
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... signifies , laying a wager , putting down as a stake . See an example of this sense , from Plautus , AINSW . pono , No. 5 . 91. How many bottles , & c . ] i . e . How many attacks on one another at play . -The steward . ] Dispensator ...
... signifies , laying a wager , putting down as a stake . See an example of this sense , from Plautus , AINSW . pono , No. 5 . 91. How many bottles , & c . ] i . e . How many attacks on one another at play . -The steward . ] Dispensator ...
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... signifies ten hundred thousand sestertii . Or if the numeral adverb be put by itself , the signification is the same : decies or vigesies stand for so many 100,000 sestertii , or , as they say , so many hundred sestertia . The ...
... signifies ten hundred thousand sestertii . Or if the numeral adverb be put by itself , the signification is the same : decies or vigesies stand for so many 100,000 sestertii , or , as they say , so many hundred sestertia . The ...
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... signifies to chatter like a bird . The temple of Concord , at Rome , was erected by ' Tiberius , at the request of his mother Livia . About this birds , such choughs , storks , and the like , used to build their nests . What the poet ...
... signifies to chatter like a bird . The temple of Concord , at Rome , was erected by ' Tiberius , at the request of his mother Livia . About this birds , such choughs , storks , and the like , used to build their nests . What the poet ...
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... signifies a king , but any great or rich man so a patron . See Juv . sat . v . 1. 14. This from the power aud dominion which he exercised over his clients . Hence , as well as from his protection and care over them , he was called ...
... signifies a king , but any great or rich man so a patron . See Juv . sat . v . 1. 14. This from the power aud dominion which he exercised over his clients . Hence , as well as from his protection and care over them , he was called ...
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... signifies it , whether Mutius might forgive what they " said , or not ? " Set down Tigellinus , and you will shine in that torch , 155 " In which standing they burn , who with fixed throat smoke ; 66 And you draw out a wide furrow in ...
... signifies it , whether Mutius might forgive what they " said , or not ? " Set down Tigellinus , and you will shine in that torch , 155 " In which standing they burn , who with fixed throat smoke ; 66 And you draw out a wide furrow in ...
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abolla AINSW alludes ancient Apulia atque attend Bona Dea Cæsar called Campania carried clients Comp Crispinus Cybele denotes Domitian dress effeminacy emperor enim ergo expence famous father favour fear fish Gabii Galba garments give gladiator Grecian Greek Hæc hath hence hired honour humourously husband illa illis ipse Italy Jupiter Juvenal king ladies lewdness live manner master mentioned meton Nævolus Nero nobility noble occasion ornaments Ovid perhaps person Phrygia poet poet means poison poor Prætor priests Psecas quæ quam quid Quintilian quis quod reckoned Retiarius rich Romans Rome satire seems servants sestertia sestertii shew signifies slaves sort sportula supposed tamen temple thence things thou Tiber tibi tion tunc Umbri Umbritius vice VIRG Virro wife wine woman women word wretches
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Page 287 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 300 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 264 - Ne collapsa ruant subductis tecta columnis. Stratus humi palmes viduas desiderat ulmos. 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 perjuria tauro, Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori, Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
Page 174 - Quis feret uxorem, cui constant omnia? malo, Malo Venusinam, quam te, Cornelia mater Gracchorum, si cum magnis virtutibus affers Grande supercilium et numeras in dote triumphos. Tolle tuiim, precor, Hannibalem victumque Syphacem 170 In castris, et cum tota Carthagine migra! Parce, precor, Paean, et tu. dea, pone sagittas: Nil pueri faciunt, ipsam configite matrem!
Page 192 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
Page 60 - Manes, et subterranea regna, Et contum, et Stygio ranas in gurgite nigras, Atque una transire vadum tot millia cymba, Nee pueri credunt, nisi qui nondum aere lavantur.
Page 200 - Elissae, 435 committit vates et comparat, inde Maronem atque alia parte in trutina suspendit Homerum.
Page 194 - Sunt quas eunuchi imbelles ac mollia semper Oscula delectent .et desperatio barbae, Et quod abortivo non est opus.
Page 232 - Pierio thyrsumque potest contingere maesta 60 paupertas atque aeris inops, quo nocte dieque corpus eget : satur est cum dicit Horatius " euhoe ! " quis locus ingenio, nisi cum se carmine solo vexant et dominis Cirrhae Nysaeque feruntur pectora...
Page 3 - The satyrical Poets, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius, may contribute wonderfully to give a man a detestation of vice, and a contempt of the common methods of mankind; which they have set out in such true colours, that they must give a very generous sense to those who delight in reading them often. Persius his second satyr may well pass for one of the best lectures in divinity.