The Odes and Epodes of HoraceGinn, 1895 - 404 pages |
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... Roman poets , for whom he did not conceive , or did not retain , a very high admiration . He also read the Iliad , as he informs us , and no doubt other Greek classics in prose and verse ; and these kindled in him a genuine enthusiasm ...
... Roman poets , for whom he did not conceive , or did not retain , a very high admiration . He also read the Iliad , as he informs us , and no doubt other Greek classics in prose and verse ; and these kindled in him a genuine enthusiasm ...
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... Roman education and Roman poetry in his youth . Alexandrine learning , filtered through his Roman teachers , furnished him with his technical outfit as a poet , with a knowledge of the forms and categories and of the history of his art ...
... Roman education and Roman poetry in his youth . Alexandrine learning , filtered through his Roman teachers , furnished him with his technical outfit as a poet , with a knowledge of the forms and categories and of the history of his art ...
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... Roman legion . It was high promotion for the freed- man's son , and envious tongues were not slow to direct attention to the fact . 12. Horace was in Brutus ' army the greater part of two years ( B.C. 43 and 42 ) . He is almost entirely ...
... Roman legion . It was high promotion for the freed- man's son , and envious tongues were not slow to direct attention to the fact . 12. Horace was in Brutus ' army the greater part of two years ( B.C. 43 and 42 ) . He is almost entirely ...
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... Roman literature . The earliest Roman annals were written in Greek , and the same phenomenon had reappeared in the highly Hellenized culture of the Ciceronian period , when Roman writers occasionally used Greek for prose or verse ...
... Roman literature . The earliest Roman annals were written in Greek , and the same phenomenon had reappeared in the highly Hellenized culture of the Ciceronian period , when Roman writers occasionally used Greek for prose or verse ...
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... Roman literature had not yet ventured to tread , but which thenceforth became the peculiar province of satura , as it had been of the Old Comedy of the Greeks , the criticism of contemporary manners and men . - 17. By inheritance and ...
... Roman literature had not yet ventured to tread , but which thenceforth became the peculiar province of satura , as it had been of the Old Comedy of the Greeks , the criticism of contemporary manners and men . - 17. By inheritance and ...
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Page 222 - 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 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 111 - Seu maestus omni tempore vixeris, Seu te in remoto gramine per dies Festos reclinatum bearis Interiore nota Falerni.
Page 128 - Rectius vives, Licini, neque altum semper urgendo neque, dum procellas cautus horrescis, nimium premendo litus iniquum. auream quisquis mediocritatem diligit, tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula. saepius ventis agitatur ingens pinus et celsae graviore casu decidunt turres feriuntque summos fulgura montes.
Page 222 - Tum cornix plena pluviam vocat improba voce et sola in sicca secum spatiatur harena.
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...
Page 302 - Ne forte credas interitura, quae longe sonantem natus ad Aufidum non ante volgatas per artes verba loquor socianda chordis...
Page 122 - Malobathro Syrio capillos? Tecum Philippos et celerem fugam Sensi relicta non bene parmula, Cum fracta virtus et minaces Turpe solum tetigere mento: Sed me per hostis Mercurius celer Denso paventem sustulit aere, Te rursus in bellum resorbens Unda fretis tulit aestuosis.
Page 194 - Punic war, which was waged mainly by sea. 35 Pyrrhumque et ingentem cecidit Antiochum Hannibalemque dirum, sed rusticorum mascula militum proles, Sabellis docta ligonibus versare glaebas et severae 40 matris ad arbitrium recisos portare fustis, sol ubi montium mutaret umbras et iuga demeret bobus fatigatis, amicum tempus agens abeunte curru. 45 Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? Aetas parentum, peior avis, tulit nos nequiores, mox daturos progeniem vitiosiorem.