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Page xi
... hand , was of the utmost importance and value , as the poet himself acknowledges with warm gratitude . The elder Flaccus was a shrewd observer of men and manners . Horace was , it seems , his only son , and the child of his later years ...
... hand , was of the utmost importance and value , as the poet himself acknowledges with warm gratitude . The elder Flaccus was a shrewd observer of men and manners . Horace was , it seems , his only son , and the child of his later years ...
Page xviii
... hand his training and his knowledge of his own powers alike pointed to literature as the career most suitable and promising for him . * CHOICE OF A CAREER . 14. That Horace had practiced verse - writing in the course of his literary ...
... hand his training and his knowledge of his own powers alike pointed to literature as the career most suitable and promising for him . * CHOICE OF A CAREER . 14. That Horace had practiced verse - writing in the course of his literary ...
Page xxi
... hand at poetry based on Greek models , and was in fact touched with the ambition to strike out a new path for Latin literature in this field . His first effort was to reproduce in Latin the iambic rhythm which tradition said had been ...
... hand at poetry based on Greek models , and was in fact touched with the ambition to strike out a new path for Latin literature in this field . His first effort was to reproduce in Latin the iambic rhythm which tradition said had been ...
Page xxvii
... hands of the one man who could command peace . Towards Augustus personally , however , Horace was not inspired at this time , and probably not any time , with any warmer feeling than patriotic admiration and gratitude . - -- THE ODES ...
... hands of the one man who could command peace . Towards Augustus personally , however , Horace was not inspired at this time , and probably not any time , with any warmer feeling than patriotic admiration and gratitude . - -- THE ODES ...
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... hand at more complicated lyrical metres . He made careful studies in early Greek lyric , taking as his especial models and guides the two great poets of Lesbos , Alcaeus and Sappho ( about 600 B.C. ) Just when Horace began to write what ...
... hand at more complicated lyrical metres . He made careful studies in early Greek lyric , taking as his especial models and guides the two great poets of Lesbos , Alcaeus and Sappho ( about 600 B.C. ) Just when Horace began to write what ...
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Page 222 - And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 67 - Catullan quote and several other echoes. integer vitae scelerisque purus non eget Mauris iaculis neque arcu nee venenatis gravida sagittis, Fusee, pharetra, sive per Syrtes iter aestuosas sive facturus per inhospitalem Caucasum vel quae loca fabulosus lambit Hydaspes. namque me silva lupus in Sabina, dum meam canto Lalagen et ultra terminum curis vagor expeditis, fugit inermem.
Page 359 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
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Page 262 - Aura feret geminusque Pollux. XXX. EXEOI monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam : usque ego postera Crescam laude recens dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex.
Page 101 - Vultu sereno, fortis et asperas Tractare serpentes, ut atrum Corpore combiberet venenum, Deliberata morte ferocior; 30 Saevis Liburnis scilicet invidens, Privata deduci superbo Non humilis mulier triumpho.
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Page 144 - Otium divos rogat in. patenti prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes condidit lunam neque certa fulgent sidera nautis ; otium bello furiosa Thrace, otium Medi pharetra decori, Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale neque auro.
Page 334 - Sibyllini monuere versus virgines lectas puerosque castos dis, quibus septem placuere colles, dicere carmen. alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui promis et celas, aliusque et idem nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma visere maius!