A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Explanatory Notes in which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Zväzok 1N. Bliss, R. Bliss, and R. Bliss, Jun., 1807 |
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Strana iii
... Nero , pleaded causes with great reputation . About his middle age he applied himself to the study of Poetry ; and , as he saw a daily increase of vice and folly , he addicted himself to writing Satire : but , having said something ...
... Nero , pleaded causes with great reputation . About his middle age he applied himself to the study of Poetry ; and , as he saw a daily increase of vice and folly , he addicted himself to writing Satire : but , having said something ...
Strana 8
... Nero . -His shoulder recalling . ] Revocante - The Romans used to fasten their cloaks round the neck with a loop , but in hot weather , perhaps , usually went with them loose . As Juvenal is now speak- ing of the summer season , ( as ...
... Nero . -His shoulder recalling . ] Revocante - The Romans used to fasten their cloaks round the neck with a loop , but in hot weather , perhaps , usually went with them loose . As Juvenal is now speak- ing of the summer season , ( as ...
Strana 14
... Nero's charioteer , or , as the poet humourously calls him , his Automedon , and used to drive out Nero and his minion Sporus , whom Nero castrated , to make him , as much as he could , resemble a woman , and whom he used as a mistress ...
... Nero's charioteer , or , as the poet humourously calls him , his Automedon , and used to drive out Nero and his minion Sporus , whom Nero castrated , to make him , as much as he could , resemble a woman , and whom he used as a mistress ...
Strana 15
... Nero . 63. Capacious waxen tablets . ] These are here called ceras , some- times they are called ceratæ tabella - because they were thin pieces of wood , covered over with wax , on which the ancients wrote with the point of a sharp ...
... Nero . 63. Capacious waxen tablets . ] These are here called ceras , some- times they are called ceratæ tabella - because they were thin pieces of wood , covered over with wax , on which the ancients wrote with the point of a sharp ...
Strana 16
... Nero's , who poisoned three uncles , and , by forging their wills , made himself heir to all they had . 68. By small tables . ] Short testaments , contained in a few words . Comp . note on 1. 63 . A wet gem . ] i . e . A seal , which ...
... Nero's , who poisoned three uncles , and , by forging their wills , made himself heir to all they had . 68. By small tables . ] Short testaments , contained in a few words . Comp . note on 1. 63 . A wet gem . ] i . e . A seal , which ...
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A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius, Zväzok 1 Juvenal,Martin Madan Úplné zobrazenie - 1789 |
A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With ..., Zväzok 1 Martin Madan,Juvenal Úplné zobrazenie - 1807 |
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Strana 347 - 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.
Strana 218 - O demens, ita servus homo est? nil fecerit, esto: Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.
Strana 234 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
Strana 192 - Credo Pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris visamque diu, cum frigida parvas praeberet spelunca domos, ignemque Laremque et pecus et dominos communi clauderet umbra...
Strana 148 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Strana vi - 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.
Strana 220 - Is there any woman that blushes at divorce now that certain illustrious and noble ladies reckon their years, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of their husbands...
Strana 218 - Pone crucem servo: meruit quo crimine servus Supplicium ? quis testis adest ? quis detulit ? audi : Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est.
Strana 76 - Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, Dum superest Lachesi, quod torqueat, et pedibus me Porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
Strana 50 - Thus and no farther shall my passion stray ; " The first crime past, compels us on to more, " And guilt proves fate, which was but choice before.