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Page 443 - Si qua recordanti benefacta priora voluptas Est homini, cum se cogitat esse pium, Nee sanctam violasse fidem nee foedere in ullo Divum ad fallendos numine abusum homines, Multa parata manent in longa aetate, Catulle, 5 Ex hoc ingrato gaudia amore tibi.
Page 295 - Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Page 37 - Utinam exstarent ilia carmina, quae, multis saeculis ante suam aetatem, in epulis esse cantitata a singulis convivis de clarorum virorum laudibus, in Originibus scriptum reliquit Cato.
Page 382 - ... nimirum quia non cognovit quae sit habendi finis et omnino quoad crescat vera voluptas. idque minutatim vitam provexit in altum et belli magnos commovit funditus aestus.
Page 403 - ... et tamen est quidam locus altis montibus unde stare videntur et in campis consistere fulgor.
Page 20 - Lucili ritu, nostrum melioris utroque. ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim 30 credebat libris, neque si male cesserat, usquam decurrens alio, neque si bene: quo fit, ut omnis votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella vita senis.
Page 78 - Ennius aeternis exponit versibus edens, quo neque permaneant animae neque corpora nostra, sed quaedam simulacra modis pallentia miris ; unde sibi exortam semper florentis Homeri commemorat speciem lacrimas effundere salsas 125 coepisse et rerum naturam expandere dictis.
Page 108 - Eurydica prognata, pater quam noster amavit, vires vitaque corpu' meum nunc deserit omne. nam me visus homo pulcher per amoena salicta et ripas raptare locosque novos ; ita sola postilla, germana soror, errare videbar tardaque vestigare et quaerere te neque posse corde capessere ; semita nulla pedem stabilibat. 41 exin compellare pater me voce videtur his verbis : " O gnata, tibi sunt ante gerendae aerumnae, post ex fluvio fortuna resistet.
Page 374 - Sed nil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere Edita doctrina sapientum templa serena, Despicere unde queas alios passimque videre Errare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae, Certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate, Noctes atque dies niti praestante labore Ad summas emergere opes rerumque potiri.
Page 459 - Torquatus volo parvulus Matris e gremio suae Porrigens teneras manus Dulce rideat ad patrem Semihiante labello.