Q. Horatii Flacci Poëmata: textum, ad praestantissimas editiones recognitum, et praecipua lectionis varietate nec non VV.DD. conjecturis instructum, prolegomenis et excursibus, varii argumenti, donavit, notisque perpetuis, patria lingua exaratis, et ad aestheticen, historiam, geographiam, mythologiam, archaeologiam, remque botanicam, spectantibusImpensis G. & C. H. Carvill, 1830 - 612 pages |
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Page iv
... poet has left us of his first interview is extremely interesting . " He appears before his future patron abashed and diffident . His previous history is told in a few words . The reply of Maecenas is equally brief , and nine months are ...
... poet has left us of his first interview is extremely interesting . " He appears before his future patron abashed and diffident . His previous history is told in a few words . The reply of Maecenas is equally brief , and nine months are ...
Page v
... poets by saying that he sat " between sighs and tears . " His friend Maecenas died in the beginning of November , A. U. C. 746 , B. C. 8 , and in his last will recommended the poet to the protection of ( 15 ) Suetonius , in his life of the ...
... poets by saying that he sat " between sighs and tears . " His friend Maecenas died in the beginning of November , A. U. C. 746 , B. C. 8 , and in his last will recommended the poet to the protection of ( 15 ) Suetonius , in his life of the ...
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... poet Phalaecius who used it in some of his compositions . 13. ASCLEPIADIC CHORIAM BIC TETRAMETER . This verse , so called from the poet Asclepiades , consists of a spondee , two choriambi , and an iambus ; as , Maecē nās ǎtǎvis || editě ...
... poet Phalaecius who used it in some of his compositions . 13. ASCLEPIADIC CHORIAM BIC TETRAMETER . This verse , so called from the poet Asclepiades , consists of a spondee , two choriambi , and an iambus ; as , Maecē nās ǎtǎvis || editě ...
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... poet sung his own compositions to the lyre . The inferiority , too , of the Roman music to that of the Greeks , precluded those changes of strophe , an- tistrophe , and epode , which give such animation and discursive variety to the ...
... poet sung his own compositions to the lyre . The inferiority , too , of the Roman music to that of the Greeks , precluded those changes of strophe , an- tistrophe , and epode , which give such animation and discursive variety to the ...
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... poet's friends have confided to the vessel , and as Greece is the country which he seeks , and Athens his point of destination , she is said to " owe " him to the " shores of Attica . " Ho- race therefore entreats her to “ deliver ...
... poet's friends have confided to the vessel , and as Greece is the country which he seeks , and Athens his point of destination , she is said to " owe " him to the " shores of Attica . " Ho- race therefore entreats her to “ deliver ...
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Page 116 - Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam. Usque ego postera Crescam laude recens, dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita Virgine pontifex.
Page 337 - Nomen iambeis, cum senos redderet ictus Primus ad extremum similis sibi. Non ita pridem, Tardior ut paulo graviorque veniret ad aures, 255 Spondeos stabiles in jura paterna recepit Commodus et patiens, non ut de sede secunda Cederet aut quarta socialiter.
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Page 39 - Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
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Page 312 - Serus enim Graecis admovit acumina chartis, Et post Punica bella quietus quaerere coepit, Quid Sophocles et Thespis et Aeschylus utile ferrent.
Page 30 - Arida nutrix. Pone me pigris ubi nulla campis Arbor aestiva recreatur aura, Quod latus mundi nebulae malusque luppiter urget ; 20 Pone sub curru nimium propinqui Solis in terra domibus negata : Dulce ridentem Lalagen amabo, Dulce loquentem.
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Page 209 - IBAM forte via Sacra, sicut meus est mos, Nescio quid meditans nugarum, totus in illis : Accurrit quidam notus mihi nomine tantum, Arreptaque manu, "Quid agis, dulcissime rerum?" " Suaviter ut nunc est," inquam, " et cupio omnia quae vis." Cum assectaretur: "Num quid vis?" occupo. At ille, "Noris nos," inquit;