The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1795 - 438 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... Latin poets , by H. Stephens . Paterculus prefers him to Pacuvius , though he allows this latter to be a more correct writer . Horace , giving the po- pular judgment of his time concerning them , fays Ambigitur quoties uter utro fit ...
... Latin poets , by H. Stephens . Paterculus prefers him to Pacuvius , though he allows this latter to be a more correct writer . Horace , giving the po- pular judgment of his time concerning them , fays Ambigitur quoties uter utro fit ...
Pagina 23
... Latin language , and upon different and promifcu- ous fubjects . In those books , the treatises most dif- tinguished are what he has called by a Greek title , #avdextas , as if containing every kind of literary circumstance . He therein ...
... Latin language , and upon different and promifcu- ous fubjects . In those books , the treatises most dif- tinguished are what he has called by a Greek title , #avdextas , as if containing every kind of literary circumstance . He therein ...
Pagina 24
... Latin means fues . But for the fame reason that the Greek word " g " we tranflate " fuper , ' fuper , " Tos , fupinus , from their upogos we have fubulcus ; nay , from their 2 2 Hyades . ] - Some authors derive Hyades , not from ...
... Latin means fues . But for the fame reason that the Greek word " g " we tranflate " fuper , ' fuper , " Tos , fupinus , from their upogos we have fubulcus ; nay , from their 2 2 Hyades . ] - Some authors derive Hyades , not from ...
Pagina 25
... Latin o , fomnus , So from their vades , are called by us first the Syades , and then the Sucule . But thofe ftars are not , as Tiro fays , in the head of Taurus , for there appears to be no head of Taurus except thofe ftars . But they ...
... Latin o , fomnus , So from their vades , are called by us first the Syades , and then the Sucule . But thofe ftars are not , as Tiro fays , in the head of Taurus , for there appears to be no head of Taurus except thofe ftars . But they ...
Pagina 26
... Latin words , and particularly applied that knowledge to the folution of knotty and intricate points of law . After his death there were accordingly pub- lished certain books entitled Pofteriores , three of which fucceffively , namely ...
... Latin words , and particularly applied that knowledge to the folution of knotty and intricate points of law . After his death there were accordingly pub- lished certain books entitled Pofteriores , three of which fucceffively , namely ...
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Pagina 318 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Pagina 289 - By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down.
Pagina 202 - He is said to have invented the famous argument against motion: "if any body be moved, it is either moved in the place where it is, or in a place where it is not; but it is not moved in the place where it is, for where it is, it remains ; nor is it moved in a place where it is not, for nothing can either act or suffer where it is not; therefore there is no such thing as motion.
Pagina 404 - They amuse the mind by the remembrance of old words and the portrait of ancient manners; they inculcate the soundest principles of government and morals; and I am not afraid to affirm, that the brief composition of the Decemvirs surpasses in genuine value the libraries of Grecian philosophy. How admirable," says Tully, with honest or affected prejudice, "is the wisdom of our ancestors!
Pagina 18 - His clam'rous grief the bellowing wood refounds. . . .) So grieves Achilles ; and impetuous, vents To all his Myrmidons, his loud laments. In what vain promife, gods ! did I engage, When to confole Menoetius...
Pagina 37 - XIII. 14, pomerium est locus intra agrum effatum per totius urbis circuitum pone muros regionibus certis determinatus, qui facit finem urbani auspicii.
Pagina 371 - Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife...
Pagina 288 - Forth. from whofe nitrous caverns iduing rife Pure liquid fountains of tempeftuous fire, And veil in ruddy mifts the noon-day fkies, While wrapt in fmoke the eddying flames afpire, Or gleaming through the night with hideous roar Far o'er the reddening main huge rocky fragments pour.
Pagina 371 - Juft hint a fault, and hefitate diflike ; " Alike referv'd to blame, or to commend, *' A tim'rous foe, and a fufpicious friend ; " Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers befieg'd, " And fo obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd...
Pagina 54 - The rural honors, and increase the year ; You who supply the ground with seeds of grain ; And you, who swell those seeds with kindly rain ; And chiefly thou, whose undetermined state Is yet the business of the gods' debate. Whether in after times, to be declared, The patron of the world, and Rome's peculiar guard, Or o'er the fruits and seasons to preside, And the round circuit of the year to guide — Powerful of blessings, which thou strew'st around, And with thy...