Classical Studies. Series No. II, Volumes 15-16University of Wisconsin, 1922 - 167 pages |
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Page 159 - Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit, Callidus excusso populum suspendere naso. Men' mutire nefas, nee clam, nee cum scrobe?
Page 92 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 92 - A DIRGE ROUGH wind, that meanest loud Grief too sad for song ; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long ; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!
Page 88 - For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.
Page 49 - I have lived without guilt. I am pleased to reflect on the innocence of my private life ; and I can affirm with confidence, that the supreme authority, that emanation of the Divine power, has been preserved in my hands pure and immaculate.
Page 93 - See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
Page 160 - Auriculas ? vide sis, ne majorum tibi forte Limina frigescant: sonat hic de nare canina Littera.' Per me equidem sint omnia protinus alba, 110 Nil moror. Euge ! omnes, omnes bene mirae eritis res. Hoc juvat ? Hic, inquis, veto quisquam faxit oletum.
Page 90 - ... yet falsely and with hypocrisy, not feeling the need of another man's doing or not doing anything ; and besides, accepting all that happens, and all that is allotted, as coming from thence, wherever it is, from whence he himself came; and finally waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being nothing else than a dissolution of the elements of which every living being is compounded.
Page 129 - Quirites, parens urbis huius, prima hodierna luce caelo repente delapsus se mihi obvium dedit. Cum perfusus horrore venerabundus adstitissem petens precibus, ut contra intueri fas esset: 'Abi, nuntia,' inquit, 'Romanis, caelestes ita velle, ut mea Roma caput orbis terrarum sit: proinde rem militarem colant, sciantque et ita posteris tradant nullas opes humanas armis Romanis resistere posse.' Haec," inquit, "locutus sublimis abiit.
Page 133 - CARMEN SAECULARE O PHOEBUS, and Diana, queen of forests, radiant glory of the heavens, O ye ever cherished and ever to be cherished, grant the blessings that we pray for at the holy season when the verses of the Sibyl have commanded chosen maidens and spotless youths to sing the hymn in honour of the gods who love the Seven Hills.