Masterpieces of Latin Literature: Terence: Lucretius: Catullus: Virgil: Horace: Tibullus: Propertius: Ovid: Petronius: Martial: Juvenal: Cicero: Caesar: Livy: Tacitus: Pliny the Younger: Apuleius; with Biographical Sketches and NotesGordon Jennings Laing Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 - 496 pagine |
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Pagina 49
... received the money , paid it over to the slave - trader , and taken the girl away . I've seen that Phaedria has her for his very own ; she's been set free . Now , I've still one thing left to do , and that's to get away from the old ...
... received the money , paid it over to the slave - trader , and taken the girl away . I've seen that Phaedria has her for his very own ; she's been set free . Now , I've still one thing left to do , and that's to get away from the old ...
Pagina 97
... received . For that which we have in our hands , if we have known before nothing pleasanter , pleases above all and is thought to be the best ; and as a rule the later discovery of something better spoils the taste for the former things ...
... received . For that which we have in our hands , if we have known before nothing pleasanter , pleases above all and is thought to be the best ; and as a rule the later discovery of something better spoils the taste for the former things ...
Pagina 155
... receiving the kind offices that belong to it each may have that done for him by the other which he is least able to do for himself , reciprocating services in like manner ; or whether , though this relation of mutual benefit is the ...
... receiving the kind offices that belong to it each may have that done for him by the other which he is least able to do for himself , reciprocating services in like manner ; or whether , though this relation of mutual benefit is the ...
Pagina 156
... received , by witnessing assiduity in one's service , and by habitual intercourse ; and when these are added to the first impulse of the mind toward love , there flames forth a marvellously rich glow of affectionate feeling . If there ...
... received , by witnessing assiduity in one's service , and by habitual intercourse ; and when these are added to the first impulse of the mind toward love , there flames forth a marvellously rich glow of affectionate feeling . If there ...
Pagina 158
... received the liveliest satisfaction ; for you 1 In the Letters Mr. E. S. Shuckburgh's translation has been used , except in the case of Fam . XIV . , 2 , where Mr. G. E. Jeans's version has been given . The chronological order has been ...
... received the liveliest satisfaction ; for you 1 In the Letters Mr. E. S. Shuckburgh's translation has been used , except in the case of Fam . XIV . , 2 , where Mr. G. E. Jeans's version has been given . The chronological order has been ...
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Pagina 424 - For this purpose he punished with exquisite torture a race of men detested for their evil practices by vulgar appellation commonly called Christians. The name was derived from Christ, who in the reign of Tiberius suffered under Pontius Pilate, the procurator of Judea.
Pagina 464 - But they declared that the sum of their guilt or their error only amounted to this, that on a stated day they had been accustomed to meet before daybreak and to recite a hymn among themselves to Christ, as though he were a god, and that so far from binding themselves by oath to commit any crime, their oath was to abstain from theft, robbery, adultery, and from breach of faith, and not to deny trust money placed in their keeping when called upon to deliver it.
Pagina 290 - Amidst these feasts of happy swains, The jolly shepherd smiles to see His flock returning from the plains; The farmer is as pleas'd as he, To view his oxen sweating smoke...
Pagina 64 - Mother of the Aeneadae, darling of men and gods, increasegiving Venus, who beneath the gliding signs of heaven fillest with thy presence the ship-carrying sea, the corn-bearing lands, since through thee every kind of living things is conceived, rises up and beholds the light of the sun.
Pagina 288 - Sometimes beneath an ancient oak, Or on the matted grass he lies; No god of sleep he need invoke, The stream that o'er the pebbles flies With gentle slumber crowns his eyes.
Pagina 288 - Or mead for cooling drink prepares Of virgin honey in the jars. Or in the now declining year, When bounteous Autumn rears his head, He joys to pull the ripen'd pear, And clustring grapes with purple spread. The fairest of his fruit he serves, Priapus thy rewards: Sylvanus too his part deserves, Whose care the fences guards.
Pagina 425 - They were put to death with exquisite cruelty, and to their sufferings Nero added mockery and derision. Some were covered with the skins of wild beasts, and left to be devoured by dogs ; others were nailed to the cross ; numbers were burnt alive ; and many, covered over with inflammable matter, were lighted up, when the day declined, to serve as torches during the night.
Pagina 471 - it said, " all these things are thine. Lie down, and relieve thy weariness, and rise again for the bath when thou wilt. We thy servants, whose voice thou hearest,will be beforehand with our service, and a royal feast shall be ready." And Psyche understood that some divine care was providing, and, refreshed with sleep and the bath, sat down to the feast. Still she saw no one : only she heard words falling here and there, and had voices alone
Pagina 489 - With these words, the lover rose upon the air; and being consumed inwardly with the greatness of his love, penetrated with vehement wing into the highest place of heaven, to lay his cause before the father of the gods. And the father of gods took his hand in his, and kissed his face, and said to him, "At no time, my son, hast thou regarded me with due honor.
Pagina 83 - But nature impelled them to utter the various sounds of the tongue and use struck out the names of things, much in the same way as the inability to speak is seen in its turn to drive children to the use of gestures, when it forces them to point with the finger at the things which are before them. For every one feels how far he can make use of his peculiar powers. Ere the horns of a calf are formed and project from his forehead, he butts with it when angry and pushes out in his rage. Then whelps of...