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... For the last named the abbreviation ' Gr . ' is used . The text of Horace is open in a number of places to the grave suspicion , which sometimes approaches certainty , of interpolation . In the absence , however , of any vi PREFACE .
... For the last named the abbreviation ' Gr . ' is used . The text of Horace is open in a number of places to the grave suspicion , which sometimes approaches certainty , of interpolation . In the absence , however , of any vi PREFACE .
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... sometimes didactic , sometimes narra- tive , or dramatic , or epistolary ; and they were written in a variety of metres . More than two thirds , however , of the thirty books were in dactylic hexameters , which Lucilius appears to have ...
... sometimes didactic , sometimes narra- tive , or dramatic , or epistolary ; and they were written in a variety of metres . More than two thirds , however , of the thirty books were in dactylic hexameters , which Lucilius appears to have ...
Page xxi
... sometimes turn- ing the laugh against himself . There are some who esteem these ' talks ' ( sermones ) , as he himself preferred to call them , the greatest of Horace's achievements . Certainly there are few works of classical antiquity ...
... sometimes turn- ing the laugh against himself . There are some who esteem these ' talks ' ( sermones ) , as he himself preferred to call them , the greatest of Horace's achievements . Certainly there are few works of classical antiquity ...
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... sometimes , to the ears of later critics , had a touch of harshness . It was not unnatural that Horace should re- gard his own achievement , wrought out with much study and labor , as the first adequate and successful adaptation of the ...
... sometimes , to the ears of later critics , had a touch of harshness . It was not unnatural that Horace should re- gard his own achievement , wrought out with much study and labor , as the first adequate and successful adaptation of the ...
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... sometimes used with its original middle force and takes an object accusative ; as S. II . 7. 38 nasum supinor , I lay back my nose ; Ep . II . 3. 302 pur- gor bilem ; Ep . I. 1. 50 coronari Olympia ( after the Greek σтepɑ- voûσbaɩ , to ...
... sometimes used with its original middle force and takes an object accusative ; as S. II . 7. 38 nasum supinor , I lay back my nose ; Ep . II . 3. 302 pur- gor bilem ; Ep . I. 1. 50 coronari Olympia ( after the Greek σтepɑ- voûσbaɩ , to ...
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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.
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