A History of Roman Classical LiteratureR. Bentley, 1853 - 591 pagine |
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Pagina vii
... Tacitus ; the most judicious critic , Quintilian ; and a letter - writer , scarcely inferior to Cicero himself , the younger Pliny ; and yet , notwithstanding these illustrious names , this is the period of the decline . These great ...
... Tacitus ; the most judicious critic , Quintilian ; and a letter - writer , scarcely inferior to Cicero himself , the younger Pliny ; and yet , notwithstanding these illustrious names , this is the period of the decline . These great ...
Pagina xv
... Tacitus - Age of Trajan -Biography of Tacitus - His extant Works enumerated - Agricola- Germany - Histories - Traditions respecting the Jews - Annals - Ob- ject of Tacitus - His character - His style • CHAPTER VII . C. Suetonius ...
... Tacitus - Age of Trajan -Biography of Tacitus - His extant Works enumerated - Agricola- Germany - Histories - Traditions respecting the Jews - Annals - Ob- ject of Tacitus - His character - His style • CHAPTER VII . C. Suetonius ...
Pagina 242
... Tacitus , " the letters of Au- gustus , -witness the conduct of the people itself , which , when some of his verses were recited in the theatre , rose en masse , and showed the same veneration for Virgil , who happened to be present ...
... Tacitus , " the letters of Au- gustus , -witness the conduct of the people itself , which , when some of his verses were recited in the theatre , rose en masse , and showed the same veneration for Virgil , who happened to be present ...
Pagina 297
... Tacitus ' are a sufficient solution of the problem : - " Idque et Mæcenati acci- derat ; fato potentiæ , raro sempiternæ , an satias capit , aut illos , cum omnia tribuerunt , aut hos , cum jam nihil reliquum est , quod cupiant . " He ...
... Tacitus ' are a sufficient solution of the problem : - " Idque et Mæcenati acci- derat ; fato potentiæ , raro sempiternæ , an satias capit , aut illos , cum omnia tribuerunt , aut hos , cum jam nihil reliquum est , quod cupiant . " He ...
Pagina 318
... Tacitus , is pre- served by Seneca . Three elegies are usually ascribed to him ; but their style is that of more modern times , and the authority for their genuineness very suspicious . A. SABINUS . Another contemporary of Ovid was A ...
... Tacitus , is pre- served by Seneca . Three elegies are usually ascribed to him ; but their style is that of more modern times , and the authority for their genuineness very suspicious . A. SABINUS . Another contemporary of Ovid was A ...
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Pagina 251 - Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there — for what could that have done?
Pagina 342 - ... tu inventrix legum, tu magistra morum et disciplinae fuisti. Ad te confugimus, a te opem petimus, tibi nos, ut antea magna ex parte, sic nunc penitus totosque tradimus.
Pagina 64 - Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides : — • Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty...
Pagina 249 - Pollio, et incipient magni procedere menses, te duce, si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri, irrita perpetua solvent formidine terras, ille deum vitam accipiet, divisque videbit 15 permixtos heroas, et ipse videbitur illis, pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem.
Pagina 56 - Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that the...
Pagina 175 - ... rei gerendae ei defuit : urbanas rusticasque res pariter callebat. ad summos honores alios scientia iuris, alios eloquentia, alios gloria militaris provexit : huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...
Pagina 160 - Virtus, Albine, est pretium persolvere verum, Queis in versamur, queis vivimu', rebu', potesse : Virtus est homini, scire id, quod quaeque habeat res.
Pagina 407 - Ubique mors est : optime hoc cavit Deus Eripere vitam nemo non homini potest; At nemo mortem : mille ad hanc aditus patent".
Pagina 454 - Quem de visceribus traxerat ipsa suis : Si qua fides, vulnus quod feci, non dolet, inquit; Sed quod tu facies, id mihi, Pâte, doletb.
Pagina 287 - O navis, referent in mare te novi fluctus ! o quid agis ? fortiter occupa portum ! nonne vides ut nudum remigio latus et malus celeri saucius Africo 5 antennaeque gemant ac sine funibus vix durare carinae possint imperiosius aequor?