 Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum, cum faber, incertus scamnum faceretne Priapum. maluit esse deum.  Opera omnia - Page 411by Horace - 1869 - 771 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Voltaire - Philosophy - 1802 - 398 pages
...of; and never was there any such thing as idolaters. Horace intrpduces a statue of Priapus, saying ; Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum, Cum faber incertus scamnum, faceretne Priapum, Maluit esse Deum. What is to be inferred from this passage ? Priapus was one of those petty deities... | |
 | Horace - 1813 - 254 pages
...reges consueris tollere, cur non Hunc Regem jugulas? operum hoc, mihi crede, tuorum est. SÁTIRA VIII. OLIM truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum ; Cum faber, incertus scamnum faceretne Priapum, Maluit esse deum. Deus inde ego,furum aviumque Maxima formido : nam fures dextra coërcet, Obscenoque... | |
 | George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 320 pages
...story; to which Lamharde (PERAMBULATIONS OF KSNT, p. 228) appositely applies the lines of Horace : Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum ; Cum Faber, incertus, scamnum, faceretne Priapum, Waluit eue Deum. Hor, brace those years, distinguished by corrupting the Fathers, forging books and... | |
 | Robert Lowth - Bible - 1815 - 436 pages
...ludicrous way, has, in a line or two, given idolatry one of the severest strokes it ever received : " Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum ; Cum faber, incertus scamnum faceretne Priapum, Maluit esse Deum." Horat. • 14. He heweth down—] For nvh, the LXX. and Vulg. read m3, or my. 16.... | |
 | Robert Adam - Deism - 1818 - 494 pages
...Fcelix Origen, St. Cyprian, and Lactantius,§ * See in particular, Isaiah, chap. xliv. v. 12 — 20. t " Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum ; Cum faber, incertus scamnum faceretne Priapum, Maluit esse Deum." — HOR. J See Josephus Contra Afifiionem. § See a catalogue of them in Dr. Bray's... | |
 | Isaiah (the prophet) - 1822 - 464 pages
...ludicrous way, has, in a l|ne or two, given idolatry one of the severest strokes it ever received : " Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum ; Cum faber, incertus scamnum faceretne Priapum, Maluit esse Deum." Horat. 14. 'He heaoeth down — ] For mh, the LXX, and Vulg. read no, or rro\ 16.... | |
 | Horace - 1822 - 736 pages
...librit, paucit. SÁTIRA VIII. UORTORUM CUSTODEM INTRODUCIT VENEFICIUÄ CANID1AE ENARRANTEM. ТоГГ. Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum, Cum faber, incertus scamnum faceretne Priapum, Maluit esse deum. Deusindcego, furum aviumque Maxima formido: nam fures dextra coercet, 5 Obscoenoque.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 544 pages
...gods whom their priests exposed to worship, and yet themselves m knew them to have been a plum tree. Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum ; Cum faber, incertus scamnum faceret-ne Priapum, Maluit esse Deum. l)eus hide ego, furum aviumque Maxima formido. ' It was a great question amongst... | |
 | Horace - 1836 - 442 pages
...punish tyrants. SATYRA VIH. Conqueritur Priapus Esquilinum montem veneficarum incantationibus infestari. OLIM truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum : Cum faber, incertus scamnum faceretne Priapum, Maluit esseDeum : Deus inde ego, furum aviumque Maxima formido : nam fures dextra coercet Obscoenoque... | |
 | 1836 - 488 pages
...ludicrous way, has, in a line or two, given idolatry one of the severest strokes it ever received : — " Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum ; Cum faber, incertus scamnum faceretne Priapum, Maluit esse Deum." Horat. 14. He heweth down—'] For JVD1?, the LXX and Vulg. read JTI3, or my 16.... | |
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