Decii Junii Juvenalis et A. Persii Flacci SatiraeWhittaker and Company, 1867 - 466 pages |
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... Juvenal , now in his eighty - first year , was suspected of having written Satire vii . against Hadrian , and was banished by him , Poor old man ! $ a 6 Armenia was finally subdued by Trajan . In v LIFE OF JUVENAL . xvii.
... Juvenal , now in his eighty - first year , was suspected of having written Satire vii . against Hadrian , and was banished by him , Poor old man ! $ a 6 Armenia was finally subdued by Trajan . In v LIFE OF JUVENAL . xvii.
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... poor by the rich ; magistrates degraded into beggars . The burst about the poets and their recitations is only a way of introducing humorously the graver matters that follow . A good deal of what was recited was no doubt bad enough ...
... poor by the rich ; magistrates degraded into beggars . The burst about the poets and their recitations is only a way of introducing humorously the graver matters that follow . A good deal of what was recited was no doubt bad enough ...
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... poor shivering slave without a tunic ; is not this something more than madness ? Which of our ancestors ever built such villas , or dined by himself off seven courses ? Now - a - days the poor client has to scramble for a paltry dole ...
... poor shivering slave without a tunic ; is not this something more than madness ? Which of our ancestors ever built such villas , or dined by himself off seven courses ? Now - a - days the poor client has to scramble for a paltry dole ...
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... poor uncia , ' as we say . 42. Accipiat sane ] There is contempt in this : " Let him take it with all my heart . " 43. pressit qui calcibus anguem , ] Hein- rich thinks this is an allusion to Homer ( Il . iii . 33 ) : ὡς ὅτε τίς τε ...
... poor uncia , ' as we say . 42. Accipiat sane ] There is contempt in this : " Let him take it with all my heart . " 43. pressit qui calcibus anguem , ] Hein- rich thinks this is an allusion to Homer ( Il . iii . 33 ) : ὡς ὅτε τίς τε ...
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... poor supper and firing to dress it , while their lord and master went in to a fine dinner which he enjoyed by himself . Rex , ' as applied to the rich , is very common in Horace . See C. i . 4. 14 , n .; and below , v . 14. He says that ...
... poor supper and firing to dress it , while their lord and master went in to a fine dinner which he enjoyed by himself . Rex , ' as applied to the rich , is very common in Horace . See C. i . 4. 14 , n .; and below , v . 14. He says that ...
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