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Prodigum Paulum, superante Poeno, | 48,323 |
Neither the fragments nor the ancient notices of Pacuvius produce | 48,323 |
L. Accius (or Attius) was born in the year 170 B.C., of parentage | 48,323 |
He was much the most productive among the early tragic poets. The | 48,323 |
Disce puer virtutem ex me verumque laborem, | 48,323 |
Fortunam ex aliis, | 48,323 |
Virtuti sis par, dispar fortunis patris. | 48,323 |
The address of Latinus to Turnus-- | 48,323 |
O praestans animi juvenis, quantum ipse feroci | 48,323 |
Virtute exsuperas, tanto me impensius aequum est | 48,323 |
Consulere atque omnis metuentem expendere casus, | 48,323 |
Quanto magis te istius modi esse intelligo, | 48,323 |
Tanto, Antigona, magis me par est tibi consulere ac parcere. | 48,323 |
Tereus indomito more atque animo barbaro | 48,323 |
Conspexit in eam amore vecors flammeo, | 48,323 |
Depositus: facinus pessimum ex dementia | 48,323 |
Abducite intro; nam mihi miseritudine | 48,323 |
Commovit animum excelsa aspecti dignitas; | 48,323 |
Nam huius demum miseret, cuius nobilitas miserias | 48,323 |
Sein' ut quem cuique tribuit fortuna ordinem, | 48,323 |
Nunquam ulla humilitas ingenium infirmat bonum. | 48,323 |
Erat istuc virile, ferre advorsam fortunam facul. | 48,323 |
Nam si a me regnum fortuna atque opes | 48,323 |
Eripere quivit, at virtutem non quit. | 48,323 |
Nullum est ingenium tantum, neque cor tam ferum, | 48,323 |
Quod non labascat lingua, mitiscat malo. | 48,323 |
Nil credo auguribus, qui auris verbis divitant | 48,323 |
Alienas, suas ut auro locupletent domos. | 48,323 |
Rex, quae in vita usurpant homines, cogitant, curant, vident, | 48,323 |
Quaeque agunt vigilantes agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt | 48,323 |
Minus mirum est. | 48,323 |
a shepherd, who had never before seen a ship, announces the first | 48,323 |
Tanta moles labitur | 48,323 |
Fremebunda ex alto, ingenti sonitu et spiritu: | 48,323 |
Prae se undas volvit, vortices vi suscitat: | 48,323 |
Ruit prolapsa, pelagus respergit, reflat. | 48,323 |
Sub axe posita ad stellas septem, unde horrifer | 48,323 |
Aquilonis stridor gelidas molitur nives. | 48,323 |
Forte ante Auroram, radiorum ardentum indicem, | 48,323 |
Cum e somno in segetem agrestis cornutos cient, | 48,323 |
Ut rorulentas terras ferro rufidas | 48,323 |
Proscindant, glebasque arvo ex molli exsuscitent. | 48,323 |
Saxum id facit angustitatem, et sub eo saxo exuberans | 48,323 |
Scatebra fluviae radit ripam. | 48,323 |
The early expression of this kind of emotion seems to have been | 48,323 |
Hac ubi curvo litore latratu | 48,323 |
Unda sub undis labunda sonit. | 48,323 |
The following lines, quoted by Cicero (Tusc. Disp. i. 28) without | 48,323 |
Caelum nitescere, arbores frondescere, | 48,323 |
Vites laetificae pampinis pubescere, | 48,323 |
Rami bacarum ubertate incurviscere, | 48,323 |
Segetes largiri fruges, florere omnia, | 48,323 |
Fontes scatere, herbis prata convestirier. | 48,323 |
We note also many instances of plays on words, alliteration, and | 48,323 |
asyndeton, reminding us of similar modes of conveying emphasis in | 48,323 |
Pari dyspari, si impar esses tibi, ego nunc non essem miser. | 48,323 |
Pro se quisque cum corona clarum cohonestat caput. | 48,323 |
Egredere, exi, ecfer te, elimina urbe. | 48,323 |
'Denique caelesti sumus omnes semine oriundi' etc. | 48,323 |
together of the ships, the uproar, the crash, the rattle of the | 48,323 |
thunder, and the whistling of the ropes.'] | 48,323 |
distinction to his misery.'] | 48,323 |
plough, and turn up the clods from the soft soil.'] | 48,323 |
The era in which Roman epic and tragic poetry arose was also the | 48,323 |
Ea tempestate flos poetarum fuit | 48,323 |
Qui nunc abierunt hinc in communem locum. | 48,323 |
of Plautus and in the prologues of Terence we infer that there | 48,323 |
Nam spirat tragicum satis et feliciter audet. | 48,323 |
The rhetorical character of Roman education and the rhetorical | 48,323 |
tendencies of the Roman mind secured favour for this kind of | 48,323 |
were not called upon to create a new taste, or to gratify a taste | 48,323 |
'Cantica,' which were accompanied by music and gesticulation, and | 48,323 |
Quantus sit Dossennus edacibus in parasitis. | 48,323 |
evidence of his desire to use his position as a popular poet for | 48,323 |
was reduced to work as a hired servant in a mill; and while thus | 48,323 |
How far are we able to fill up this meagre outline by personal | 48,323 |
We find one reference to his birthplace, in the form of a bad pun | 48,323 |
He mentions other districts or towns in Italy in the tone of | 48,323 |
half-humorous, half-contemptuous indifference, which a Londoner | 48,323 |
of last, or a Parisian of the present century, might adopt to the | 48,323 |
Praeneste were especially regarded as butts by the wits of Rome. | 48,323 |
is contrast rather than analogy in the impression left upon their | 48,323 |
Neptune. The colloquial use of Greek phrases in many of his | 48,323 |
speculation:-- | 48,323 |
Navibus magnis mercaturam faciam: aput reges rex perhibebor. | 48,323 |
Post animi causa mihi navem faciam atque imitabor Stratonicum, | 48,323 |
Oppida circumvectitabor, ubi nobilitas mea erit clara, | 48,323 |
Oppidum magnum conmoenibo: ei ego urbi Gripo indam nomen. | 48,323 |
He shows much greater familiarity with the life of the lower and | 48,323 |
Pernam callum glandium sumen etc. | 48,323 |
find no place in the more fastidious gastronomy of our own times, | 48,323 |
been, till the sudden influx of luxury in his own time, described | 48,323 |
the return of their masters from abroad, the tastes which the | 48,323 |
Ennius ipse pater numquam nisi potus ad arma | 48,323 |
Prosiluit dicenda, | 48,323 |
Narratur et prisci Catonis | 48,323 |
Saepe mero caluisse virtus, | 48,323 |
Another criticism of Horace upon Plautus-- | 48,323 |
Gestit enim nummum in loculos demittere-- | 48,323 |
Balzac, and, to a certain extent, even Shakespeare. To the poets | 48,323 |