This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... belua multorum capitum. Horace dwells on the figure of the fable and gives another aspect to it. The world which bids me imitate it is well represented as a beast--a beast, like those of legend, with many heads. 77-80. We are passing from the charge brought against the world, of a wrong standard, to that of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... belua multorum capitum. Horace dwells on the figure of the fable and gives another aspect to it. The world which bids me imitate it is well represented as a beast--a beast, like those of legend, with many heads. 77-80. We are passing from the charge brought against the world, of a wrong standard, to that of inconstancy, but this is not donewith logical accuracy, and the instances given of variety of taste in different people belong still to the old subject, being limited to various ways, including the most questionable ones, of making money. 77. conducere publica, ' to take public contracts.' The phrase seems to cover contracts both for the farming of the revenue (cp.'publicis male redemptis' Cic. Q. Frat. I. I. 11) and for works to be executed for the state. It is possible that Horace is thinking of various grades of dignity in such contracts (cp. Juvenal's 'Quis facile est aedem conducere, flu-mina, portus, Siccandam eluviem, ' etc. 3. 30), but the main irony lies in the verb ' gestit, ' 'is greedy to, ' and in the juxtaposition of the calling of the ' publicanus' with that of the legacy-hunter and the money-lender, as though the difference were one of taste. 78. frustis: Perhaps a contemptuous term; 'scraps, ' 'broken meat, ' of such presents as the 'turdus' of Sat. 2. 5. 10. Most editors have preferred the reading 'mist is' (' cakes, ' 'pastry '; cp. the dim. 'crustula' in Sat. i. I. 25), which Cruquius and Lambinus found in some of their MSS. and which has the authority of a (the St. Gall MS.). pomis: Sat. 2. 5. 12. venentur... excipiant: Od. 3.12. 12 'excipere aprum.' 79. vivaria, of catching wild game and turning them into preserves. Cp. the similar metaphor of catching fish and putting them in fishponds, Sat. 2. 5. 44. 80. occulto. It is difficult to
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None. Very Good. A smart limited edition of this collection of poetry from Horatius Flaccus, with slip case, in the Latin language. Latin language. Limited edition number twenty-six of one thousand. A collection of lyric poetry from Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a Roman writer during the time of Augustus. Collected and edited by Edward Wickham, an English scholar and Dean of Lincoln. In the original quarter cloth with paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and fading to the spine. The odd mark to the front board. Original paper covered slip case is smart with light fading to the spine and extremities. Minor shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good.
