Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica: With an English TranslationW. Heinemann, 1926 - 508 pages |
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... words , Etruscan words , Syrian words , and words from the Italic dialects , Oscan , Pelignian , Praenestine , Sardinian , and Umbrian , even bits of Greek dialect slang , are found in his pages . ' We must remember both the plebeian ...
... words , Etruscan words , Syrian words , and words from the Italic dialects , Oscan , Pelignian , Praenestine , Sardinian , and Umbrian , even bits of Greek dialect slang , are found in his pages . ' We must remember both the plebeian ...
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... word more will I add , or you will think I have rifled the rolls of blear- eyed Crispinus . The scrinia were the cylindrical boxes in which rolls of manuscript were kept . Crispinus , according to the scholiasts , was an aretalogus ...
... word more will I add , or you will think I have rifled the rolls of blear- eyed Crispinus . The scrinia were the cylindrical boxes in which rolls of manuscript were kept . Crispinus , according to the scholiasts , was an aretalogus ...
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... Housman , in J.P. xviii . p . 3 . 35 40 Epidaurus was famous for the worship of Aesculapius , whose symbol was a serpent or dрáкwv , a word supposed to come from déркоμаι , " to see . ' 99 66 19 Now someone may say to me : What 34 HORACE ...
... Housman , in J.P. xviii . p . 3 . 35 40 Epidaurus was famous for the worship of Aesculapius , whose symbol was a serpent or dрáкwv , a word supposed to come from déркоμаι , " to see . ' 99 66 19 Now someone may say to me : What 34 HORACE ...
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... word , give yourself a shaking and see whether nature , or haply some bad habit , has not at some time sown in you the seeds of folly ; for in neglected fields there springs up bracken , which you must burn . 38 Let us turn first to ...
... word , give yourself a shaking and see whether nature , or haply some bad habit , has not at some time sown in you the seeds of folly ; for in neglected fields there springs up bracken , which you must burn . 38 Let us turn first to ...
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... words and names wherewith to give meaning to their cries and feelings . Thenceforth they began to cease from war , to build towns , and to frame laws that none should thieve or rob or commit adultery . For before Helen's day a wench was ...
... words and names wherewith to give meaning to their cries and feelings . Thenceforth they began to cease from war , to build towns , and to frame laws that none should thieve or rob or commit adultery . For before Helen's day a wench was ...
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Page 448 - ... 10 scimus, et hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim; sed non ut placidis coeant immitia, non ut serpentes avibus geminentur, tigribus agni.
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Page 456 - Non satis est pulchra esse poemata ; dulcia sunto Et quocunque volent animum auditoris agunto. 100 Ut ridentibus arrident, ita flentibus adsunt Humani vultus : si vis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipsi tibi ; tune tua me infortunia laedent, Telephe vel Peleu : male si mandata loqueris, Aut dormitabo aut ridebo.
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Page 482 - ... qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam, multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit, abstinuit venere et vino ; qui Pythia cantat tibicen, didicit prius extimuitque magistrum. nunc satis est dixisse ' ego mira poemata pango ; occupet extremum scabies ; mihi turpe relinqui est, et quod non didici sane nescire fateri.
Page 216 - Larem proprium vescor vernasque procaces pasco libatis dapibus. prout cuique libido est siccat inaequalis calices conviva, solutus legibus insanis, seu quis capit acria fortis pocula seu modicis uvescit laetius. ergo 70 sermo oritur, non de villis domibusve alienis, nee male necne Lepos saltet ; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus : utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati ; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos ; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.