The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen SeculareAmerican book Company, 1902 - 465 pages |
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... poet's life and writings . The text is the vulgate , although in some passages I have preferred the better manuscript tradition . As young students require no little help if they are to understand as well as translate the Epodes and ...
... poet's life and writings . The text is the vulgate , although in some passages I have preferred the better manuscript tradition . As young students require no little help if they are to understand as well as translate the Epodes and ...
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... poet's marked characteristics of moderation , temper- ance , and self - control ; to his father's training was also due Horace's habit of observing men and manners , which bore fruit in the shrewd and searching comments on life which ...
... poet's marked characteristics of moderation , temper- ance , and self - control ; to his father's training was also due Horace's habit of observing men and manners , which bore fruit in the shrewd and searching comments on life which ...
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... poets , for whom he apparently felt little admiration ; his studies also included the Iliad and probably other Greek classics , and we can hardly doubt that this early study of Greek literature roused that enthusiasm for it which lasted ...
... poets , for whom he apparently felt little admiration ; his studies also included the Iliad and probably other Greek classics , and we can hardly doubt that this early study of Greek literature roused that enthusiasm for it which lasted ...
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Horace Clifford Herschel Moore. temporary poets . There , too , he made many friendships which lasted him through life . In the autumn of 44 B.C. Brutus came to Athens , where the people received him with enthusiasm as a liberator . The ...
Horace Clifford Herschel Moore. temporary poets . There , too , he made many friendships which lasted him through life . In the autumn of 44 B.C. Brutus came to Athens , where the people received him with enthusiasm as a liberator . The ...
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... poet of the day , having won that posi- tion by his epic poem on the death of Julius Caesar , published before 39 B.C .; Asinius Pollio was distinguished in tragedy ; and Vergil was beginning to be known for his bucolic poems . The ...
... poet of the day , having won that posi- tion by his epic poem on the death of Julius Caesar , published before 39 B.C .; Asinius Pollio was distinguished in tragedy ; and Vergil was beginning to be known for his bucolic poems . The ...
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9 ff adjective aetas Alcaeus amor anaphora Anth Apollo Apulia atque Augustus caelo Caesar caesura Canidia carmen Carmen Saeculare Catull Catullus celebrate contrast curas date of composition dative death deorum Diana domos Edited emphatic Epist Epod equivalent Eurip expression Faunus goddess gods Greek Hadriae haec Homeric honor Horace Horace's hymn impia inter Intr Iovis Iuppiter Latin Livy lyre lyric Maecenas manus mare Metre mihi modo Muses neque nihil nunc Octavian omne omnis Ovid pater pede phrase Pindar poem poet Porphyrio probably Proserpina puer quae quam quid quis quod reference Roman Rome semel semper sine sive song strophe tamen terra thee theme thou tibi Tibur tion Venus Verg Vergil verses wine word γὰρ δὲ ἐν ΙΟ καὶ μὲν τε τὸ
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Page 407 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 95 - Et minax — quod sic voluere — ponto Unda recumbit. Romulum post hos prius, an quietum Pompili regnum memorem, an superbos Tarquini fasces, dubito, an Catonis 35 Nobile letum.
Page 451 - At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves...
Page 239 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 170 - GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old time is still a flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of Heaven, the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting.
Page 239 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Page 71 - Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa Perfusus liquidis urget odoribus Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro?
Page 244 - The horsemen and the footmen Are pouring in amain From many a stately market-place, From many a fruitful plain, From many a lonely hamlet, Which, hid by beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine...
Page 330 - Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam : usque ego postera Crescam laude recens dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex. Dicar qua violens obstrepit Aufidus Et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium Regnavit populorum, ex humili potens, Princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos Deduxisse modos. Sume superbiam Quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica Lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam.
Page 66 - Acroceraunia? nequiquam deus abscidit prudens Oceano dissociabili terras, si tamen impiae non tangenda rates transiliunt vada. audax omnia perpeti gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.