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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... king of the Ru- tilians , the rival of Æneas , and slain by him . See VIRG . Æn . xii . 919 , & c . 163. You may match . ] Committas is a metaphorical expression , taken from matching or pairing gladiators , or others , in single combat ...
... king of the Ru- tilians , the rival of Æneas , and slain by him . See VIRG . Æn . xii . 919 , & c . 163. You may match . ] Committas is a metaphorical expression , taken from matching or pairing gladiators , or others , in single combat ...
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... king of Athens , built the city , and called it after his name , Cecropia . 93. His eyebrow . It was customary for the women to paint the eyebrows , as well as the eyes : the first was done with a black composition made of soot and ...
... king of Athens , built the city , and called it after his name , Cecropia . 93. His eyebrow . It was customary for the women to paint the eyebrows , as well as the eyes : the first was done with a black composition made of soot and ...
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... king- dom of Naples , where Hannibal defeated the Romans , and killed above 40,000 . Among these such a number of the young nobility , knights , and others of rank , that Hannibal sent to Carthage three bushels of rings in token of his ...
... king- dom of Naples , where Hannibal defeated the Romans , and killed above 40,000 . Among these such a number of the young nobility , knights , and others of rank , that Hannibal sent to Carthage three bushels of rings in token of his ...
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... king . It was taken by Pompey , who spared both the city and the inhabitants : but , in Nero's reign , Corbulo , the commander in chief of the Roman forces in the East , having forced Tiridates , king of Armenia , to yield up Artaxata ...
... king . It was taken by Pompey , who spared both the city and the inhabitants : but , in Nero's reign , Corbulo , the commander in chief of the Roman forces in the East , having forced Tiridates , king of Armenia , to yield up Artaxata ...
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... kings , tribunes , with 315 consular authority , governed the re- public . 314. With one prison . ] Which was built in the forum , or market - place , at Rome , by Ancus Martius , the fourth king . Robberies , and the other offences ...
... kings , tribunes , with 315 consular authority , governed the re- public . 314. With one prison . ] Which was built in the forum , or market - place , at Rome , by Ancus Martius , the fourth king . Robberies , and the other offences ...
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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.