Decii Junii Juvenalis et A. Persii Flacci SatiraeWhittaker and Company, 1867 - 466 pages |
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... Greek and Roman history and to mythical legends . Even Moses is introduced to us . It is true that the writer of the genuine Satires shows that he was well acquainted with Greek and Roman history ; but he handles his matter like a man ...
... Greek and Roman history and to mythical legends . Even Moses is introduced to us . It is true that the writer of the genuine Satires shows that he was well acquainted with Greek and Roman history ; but he handles his matter like a man ...
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... Greek form is Zúλλas . The theme on which he professes to have declaimed belongs to the order called " suasoriae orationes , " of which a book was written by the elder Seneca . It appears to have been a favourite subject . Quintilian ...
... Greek form is Zúλλas . The theme on which he professes to have declaimed belongs to the order called " suasoriae orationes , " of which a book was written by the elder Seneca . It appears to have been a favourite subject . Quintilian ...
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... Greek and Latin , in which those who , in the Emperor's judgment , had acquitted themselves worst , ( " ii qui maxime displi- cuissent " ) were obliged to lick out what they had written with their tongue , or to be flogged , or plunged ...
... Greek and Latin , in which those who , in the Emperor's judgment , had acquitted themselves worst , ( " ii qui maxime displi- cuissent " ) were obliged to lick out what they had written with their tongue , or to be flogged , or plunged ...
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... Greek . ( See v . 38 , and the note . ) On the ancient Greek ves- sels they were very handsome and curious . Verres the governor of Sicily laid his hands upon many . Cicero calls them ' scyphos figures upon them ( Verr . ii . 4. 14. See ...
... Greek . ( See v . 38 , and the note . ) On the ancient Greek ves- sels they were very handsome and curious . Verres the governor of Sicily laid his hands upon many . Cicero calls them ' scyphos figures upon them ( Verr . ii . 4. 14. See ...
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... Greek oracles were delivered . Virgil has Lyciae sortes ' twice over ( Aen . iv . 346. 377 ) . ' Sortes poscere ' is an unusual phrase . ' Poscere ' is stronger than ' petere , ' which is more commonly used . ' Poscere divos ' is not ...
... Greek oracles were delivered . Virgil has Lyciae sortes ' twice over ( Aen . iv . 346. 377 ) . ' Sortes poscere ' is an unusual phrase . ' Poscere ' is stronger than ' petere , ' which is more commonly used . ' Poscere divos ' is not ...
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