The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1795 - 438 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... lefs frequent ; and having fent to confult the Delphian oracle on this alarming occa- fion , he received for anfwer , that he was to pay peculiar ho- nours to Jupiter Ammon , and mult expect to lose that eye which had prefumptuoufly ...
... lefs frequent ; and having fent to confult the Delphian oracle on this alarming occa- fion , he received for anfwer , that he was to pay peculiar ho- nours to Jupiter Ammon , and mult expect to lose that eye which had prefumptuoufly ...
Pagina 17
... fupplies . Nature is full of wonders ; but writers on the history of quadrupeds have been careful not to make it lefs fo than it is . ” VOL . III , C " The " The lionefs , of all animals the strongest and OF AULUS GELLIUS . 17.
... fupplies . Nature is full of wonders ; but writers on the history of quadrupeds have been careful not to make it lefs fo than it is . ” VOL . III , C " The " The lionefs , of all animals the strongest and OF AULUS GELLIUS . 17.
Pagina 20
... lefs ingenious or agreeable for this critic's obfervation . H. Stephens , in his edition of Gellius , has a very long chapter to explain fome perplexed paffages which here occur , and the reader may have advantage from confulting the ...
... lefs ingenious or agreeable for this critic's obfervation . H. Stephens , in his edition of Gellius , has a very long chapter to explain fome perplexed paffages which here occur , and the reader may have advantage from confulting the ...
Pagina 27
... lefs ingenious and subtle . " Frater , " fays he , " is quafi ferè alter . " word being very obfcure . Voffius is defirous to derive it from fero , to plant , and mentions also an Hebrew etymology , with which he seems much pleased ...
... lefs ingenious and subtle . " Frater , " fays he , " is quafi ferè alter . " word being very obfcure . Voffius is defirous to derive it from fero , to plant , and mentions also an Hebrew etymology , with which he seems much pleased ...
Pagina 34
... lefs he thought proper . " As to this right , of which Marcus Varro fpeaks , I am of opinion that Labeo , when a private man , acted with an idle fort of confidence , in not appearing to the fummons of the tribune . For what could be ...
... lefs he thought proper . " As to this right , of which Marcus Varro fpeaks , I am of opinion that Labeo , when a private man , acted with an idle fort of confidence , in not appearing to the fummons of the tribune . For what could be ...
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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!
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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...
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