Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars PoeticaCrosby Lockwood & Company, 1878 - 217 pages |
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... Roman life which is set so vividly before us . 1. Aricia . Horace left Rome by the Via Appia , which issued from the Porta Capena , and stopped at the first station , Aricia , now La Riccia , six- teen Roman miles from Rome.- -2 ...
... Roman life which is set so vividly before us . 1. Aricia . Horace left Rome by the Via Appia , which issued from the Porta Capena , and stopped at the first station , Aricia , now La Riccia , six- teen Roman miles from Rome.- -2 ...
Page 110
... miles . This distance seemed to Horace and Heliodorus too long for one day's journey on foot , so they divided it ... Roman miles from Tarracina . - Aufidio Lusco prætore . Aufidius Luscus had , it appears , been a scribe at Rome ...
... miles . This distance seemed to Horace and Heliodorus too long for one day's journey on foot , so they divided it ... Roman miles from Tarracina . - Aufidio Lusco prætore . Aufidius Luscus had , it appears , been a scribe at Rome ...
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... Roman miles from Fundi , and called the city of the Mamurræ as a side - hit against the ostentation of one of them , who , as Præfectus Fabrorum in the army of Julius Cæsar , had managed to acquire considerable wealth , and had in ...
... Roman miles from Fundi , and called the city of the Mamurræ as a side - hit against the ostentation of one of them , who , as Præfectus Fabrorum in the army of Julius Cæsar , had managed to acquire considerable wealth , and had in ...
Page 112
... Roman miles from Caudium . - 72 . Pæne macros arsit dum , etc. = pæne arsit dum macros , etc. — arsit , " set himself on fire . ' -73 . This line and See Virgil = 66 we the next are in the heroic vein , and are possibly from Ennius ...
... Roman miles from Caudium . - 72 . Pæne macros arsit dum , etc. = pæne arsit dum macros , etc. — arsit , " set himself on fire . ' -73 . This line and See Virgil = 66 we the next are in the heroic vein , and are possibly from Ennius ...
Page 113
... Roman miles from Egnatia . -longæ finis chartæque viæque est . This abrupt ending seems to show that Horace got tired of the task he had imposed on himself . The last part of the Satire is very meagre and hurried ; and he does not tell ...
... Roman miles from Egnatia . -longæ finis chartæque viæque est . This abrupt ending seems to show that Horace got tired of the task he had imposed on himself . The last part of the Satire is very meagre and hurried ; and he does not tell ...
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