Decii Junii Juvenalis et A. Persii Flacci SatiraeWhittaker and Company, 1867 - 466 pages |
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Page vi
... writer whom it is their only object to explain . As there is no ancient author that requires masculine sense to understand and explain his meaning so much as Juvenal , so I know of no commentator on any author that surpasses Heinrich in ...
... writer whom it is their only object to explain . As there is no ancient author that requires masculine sense to understand and explain his meaning so much as Juvenal , so I know of no commentator on any author that surpasses Heinrich in ...
Page x
... write long notes on such authors as these ; indeed the difficulty is to write at moderate length ; even without the prac- tice , which I think objectionable , of overlaying the text with an embarrassing heap of references . Among other ...
... write long notes on such authors as these ; indeed the difficulty is to write at moderate length ; even without the prac- tice , which I think objectionable , of overlaying the text with an embarrassing heap of references . Among other ...
Page xiv
... writer means ) ; that he was a practised rhetorician ; that he began to write satire after middle life ; that his first attempt was an epigram upon Paris the pantomimus ; that he was encouraged by the success of this production to write ...
... writer means ) ; that he was a practised rhetorician ; that he began to write satire after middle life ; that his first attempt was an epigram upon Paris the pantomimus ; that he was encouraged by the success of this production to write ...
Page xv
... writer ; and whatever amount of truth there may have been in the originals has been perverted and confused in the later editions , which show very little evidence of accurate information . The only authority for Juvenal's birthplace ...
... writer ; and whatever amount of truth there may have been in the originals has been perverted and confused in the later editions , which show very little evidence of accurate information . The only authority for Juvenal's birthplace ...
Page xvii
... write at all in that reign , or this Satire was written while Hadrian was emperor , about A.D. 119 . Otherwise Juvenal's Satires must range over a period of fifty years or thereabouts , and one of the very best must have been nearly the ...
... write at all in that reign , or this Satire was written while Hadrian was emperor , about A.D. 119 . Otherwise Juvenal's Satires must range over a period of fifty years or thereabouts , and one of the very best must have been nearly the ...
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