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36441Can Structures, built by such a_ Builder_, live?
36441Invert all ORDER, and the Art_ disgrace_?
36441Why should the few, the Rules which I impart, Be construed ill, be Scandal to the Art?
36441Why such external needless Dress and Show?
36441Why then should_ Artists_ challenge future Praise, When Time devours their Works so many Ways?
36441Will_ A-- f-- y_, think you;_ C-- p-- n_ survive?
36441Will_ B-- f-- w_;_ M-- d-- n_; FOOLS by Nature made Will they encrease, or will they ruin Trade?
36441Will_ O-- k-- y_,_ B----s_, and some whom I could name?
36441With such gay Structures, why do they begin Such_ Glare_ of Ornament to usher in?
36441Would you the Sister- Arts improve in Schools?
16801O_h, what can match the green recess_, W_hose honey not to Hybla yields_, W_hose olives vie with those that bless_ V_enafrum''s fields_? 16801 And now, what is it that Horace sees as he sits in philosophic detachment on the serene heights of contemplation; and what are his reflections? 16801 But how insure this peace of mind? 16801 F_or whom that innocent- seeming knot_ I_n which your golden strands you dress_ W_ith all the art of artlessness?_ D_eluded lad! 16801 For whom bind''st thou_ I_n wreaths thy golden hair_, P_lain in thy neatness? 16801 Is not_ O_ne Hebrus here,--from Aldershot?_ A_ha, you colour!_ B_e wise. 16801 Of what avail to fly to lands warmed by other suns? 16801 There was Quintilius, whose death was bewailed by many good men;--when would incorruptible Faith and Truth find his equal? 16801 W_hat''s here? 16801 What difference does it make to him who lives within the limits of nature whether he plow a hundred acres or a thousand? 16801 What exile ever escaped himself? 16801 What is the secret? 16801 What need to be unhappy in the midst of such a world? 16801 What of the man who is not rich? 16801 Where else may be seen so many vivid incidental pictures of men at their daily occupations of work or play? 16801 Who knows whether the gods above will add a tomorrow to the to- day? 13885 AT THE BALL GAME What gods or heroes, whose brave deeds none can dispute, Will you record, O Clio, on the harp and flute? 13885 But_ we_,--how do we train_ our_ youth? 13885 Do you bemoan Your side was stripped of oarage in the blast? 13885 For who doth croak Of being broke, Or who of warfare, after drinking? 13885 For whom amid the roses, many- hued, Do you bind back your tresses''yellow wave? 13885 For whom do you bind up your tresses, As spun- gold yellow,-- Meshes that go with your caresses, To snare a fellow? 13885 HE What if_ ma belle_ from favor fell, And I made up my mind to shake her; Would Lydia then come back again, And to her quondam love betake her? 13885 III A PARAPHRASE How happens it, my cruel miss, You''re always giving me the mitten? 13885 Long time ago( As well you know) I started in upon that carmen; My work was vain,-- But why complain? 13885 No longer you may hear them cry,Why art thou, Lydia, lying In heavy sleep till morn is nigh, While I, your love, am dying?"
13885Or why to men can not return The smooth cheeks of the boy?"
13885Perchance you fear to do what may Bring evil to your race?
13885SHE Before_ she_ came, that rival flame( Had ever mater saucier filia?
13885Should a patron require you to paint a marine, Would you work in some trees with their barks on?
13885TO MISTRESS PYRRHA I What perfumed, posie- dizened sirrah, With smiles for diet, Clasps you, O fair but faithless Pyrrha, On the quiet?
13885TO MISTRESS PYRRHA II What dainty boy with sweet perfumes bedewed Has lavished kisses, Pyrrha, in the cave?
13885TO POMPEIUS VARUS Pompey, what fortune gives you back To the friends and the gods who love you?
13885TO THE SHIP OF STATE O ship of state Shall new winds bear you back upon the sea?
13885Tell him that I am short and fat, Quick in my temper, soon appeased, With locks of gray,--but what of that?
13885The chip is on my shoulder-- see?
13885Was not the wine delicious cool Whose sweetness Pyrrha''s smile enhanced?
13885What are you doing?
13885What if the charming Chloe of the golden locks be shaken And slighted Lydia again glide through the open door?
13885What lofty names shall sportive Echo grant a place On Pindus''crown or Helicon''s cool, shadowy space?
13885When his strict orders are for a Japanese jar, Would you give him a pitcher like Clarkson?
13885Where is your charm, and where your bloom and gait so firm and sensible, That drew my love from Cinara,--a lapse most indefensible?
13885While the wine gets cool in yonder pool, Let''s spruce up nice and tidy; Who knows, old boy, But we may decoy The fair but furtive Lyde?
13885Whilst thus the years of youth go by, Shall Colin languish, Strephon die?
13885Why do I chase from place to place In weather wet and shiny?
13885Why do I falter in my speech, O cruel Ligurine?
13885Why down my nose forever flows The tear that''s cold and briny?
13885Why indolently shock you us?
13885Why with Lethean cups fall into desuetude innocuous?"
13885Why, Mistress Chloe, do you bother With prattlings and with vain ado Your worthy and industrious mother, Eschewing them that come to woo?
13885Why, even flow''rs change with the hours, And the moon has divers phases; And shall the mind Be racked to find A clew to Fortune''s mazes?
13885You ask what means this grand display, This festive throng and goodly diet?
13885You know the fate that overtook him?
13885You see, your grief will cry:"Why in my youth could I not learn The wisdom men enjoy?
13885and is it truth You love that fickle lady?
13885nevermore?
13885though favors I bestow Can not be called extensive, Who better than my friend should know That they''re at least expensive?
5432''Twixt worth and baseness, lapp''d in death, What difference?
5432''Twixt worth and baseness, lapp''d in death, What difference?
5432And sleeps he then the heavy sleep of death, Quintilius?
5432Are Bacchants sane?
5432Break but her meshes, will the deer Assail you?
5432But why, you ask, this special cheer?
5432But, lady fair, What if Enipeus please Your listless eye?
5432Can Hope assure you one more day to live From powers above?
5432Can painted timbers quell a seaman''s fear?
5432Can suppliance overbear The ear of Vesta, turn''d away From chant and prayer?
5432Come, tell me truth, And trust my honour.--That the name?
5432Come, tell me what barbarian fair Will serve you now, her bridegroom slain?
5432Do I wake to weep My sin?
5432Earning his foemen- kinsmen''s pay, His king, forsooth, a Mede, his sire A Marsian?
5432Has conscience shrunk from aught of crime?
5432He hesitates?
5432How should a mortal''s hopes be long, when short his being''s date?
5432Is Teucer called auspex, as taking the auspices, like an augur, or as giving the auspices, like a god?
5432Life that is not whole, Is THAT as sweet?
5432Lydia, by all above, Why bear so hard on Sybaris, to ruin him with love?
5432NE SIT ANCILLAE Why, Xanthias, blush to own you love Your slave?
5432O, what can match the green recess, Whose honey not to Hybla yields, Whose olives vie with those that bless Venafrum''s fields?
5432Shall now Quirinus take his turn, Or quiet Numa, or the state Proud Tarquin held, or Cato stern, By death made great?
5432Strain your wine and prove your wisdom; life is short; should hope be more?
5432That wild Charybdis yours?
5432Those who with Orelli prefer"Quo pinus... quid obliquo,"may substitute-- Know you why pine and poplar high Their hospitable shadows spread Entwined?
5432Varus, are your trees in planting?
5432Was stranger contrast ever seen?
5432Well, shall I take a toper''s part Of fierce Falernian?
5432What altar spared?
5432What are great or small?
5432What blessing shall the bard entreat The god he hallows, as he pours The winecup?
5432What can sad laments avail Unless sharp justice kill the taint of sin?
5432What can these flowers, this censer mean Or what these embers, glowing red On sods of green?
5432What cave shall hearken to my melodies, Tuned to tell of Caesar''s praise And throne him high the heavenly ranks among?
5432What change has made him shun The playing- ground, who once so well could bear the dust and sun?
5432What coast from Roman blood is free?
5432What dens, what forests these, Thus in wildering race I see?
5432What exiled man From self can sunder?
5432What field, by Latian blood- drops fed, Proclaims not the unnatural deeds It buries, and the earthquake dread Whose distant thunder shook the Medes?
5432What god shall Rome invoke to stay Her fall?
5432What gulf, what river has not seen Those sights of sorrow?
5432What has dull''d the fire Of the Berecyntian fife?
5432What has not cankering Time made worse?
5432What horror have we left undone?
5432What if, as auburn Phyllis''mate, You graft yourself on regal stem?
5432What man, what hero, Clio sweet, On harp or flute wilt thou proclaim?
5432What page from court with essenced hair Will tender you the bowl you drain, Well skill''d to bend the Serian bow His father carried?
5432What shrine has rapine held in awe?
5432What slender youth, besprinkled with perfume, Courts you on roses in some grotto''s shade?
5432What will not Claudian hands achieve?
5432What wizard, what Thessalian spell, What god can save you, hamper''d thus?
5432What, fight with cups that should give joy?
5432What, yet alive?
5432When will ye find his peer?
5432Whence came I?
5432Where now that beauty?
5432Where''s the slave To quench the fierce Falernian''s flame With water from the passing wave?
5432Wherefore halts this tongue of mine, So eloquent once, so faltering now and weak?
5432Which was best?
5432Whither, Bacchus, tear''st thou me, Fill''d with thy strength?
5432Who can talk of want or warfare when the wine is in his head, Not of thee, good father Bacchus, and of Venus fair and bright?
5432Who comes, commission''d to atone For crime like ours?
5432Who fears the Parthian or the Scythian horde, Or the rank growth that German forests yield, While Caesar lives?
5432Who will twine The hasty wreath from myrtle- tree Or parsley?
5432Who''ll coax coy Lyde from her home?
5432Whom praise we first?
5432Whom will Venus seat Chairman of cups?
5432Why bend our bows of little span?
5432Why blush to let our tears unmeasured fall For one so dear?
5432Why change our homes for regions under Another sun?
5432Why does he never sit On horseback in his company, nor with uneven bit His Gallic courser tame?
5432Why dreads he yellow Tiber, as''twould sully that fair frame?
5432Why hangs the flute in silence with the lyre?
5432Why rend my heart with that sad sigh?
5432Why should rain to- day Bring rain to- morrow?
5432Why strain so far?
5432Why weep for him whom sweet Favonian airs Will waft next spring, Asteria, back to you, Rich with Bithynia''s wares, A lover fond and true, Your Gyges?
5432Why with thoughts too deep O''ertask a mind of mortal frame?
5432Would you like The bondmaid''s task, You, child of kings, a master''s toy, A mistress''slave?''"
5432Yet the swift moons repair Heaven''s detriment: We, soon as thrust Where good Aeneas, Tullus, Ancus went, What are we?
5432You hear her?
5432You take the bait?
5432but why, my Ligurine, Steal trickling tear- drops down my wasted cheek?
5432can he name forget, Gown, sacred shield, undying fire, And Jove and Rome are standing yet?
5432nay, what sea Has Daunian carnage yet left green?
5432or am I pure of blame, And is it sleep From dreamland brings a form to trick My senses?
5432or is this the play Of fond illusion?
5432should I lose one half my soul Untimely, can the other stay Behind it?
5432shrink you not from crime whose punishment Falls on your innocent children?
5432to go Over the long, long waves, or pick The flowers in blow?
5432was Bellerophon''s as good?
5432what should man Think first of doing?
5432where That colour?
5432where those movements?
5432who trembles at the sword The fierce Iberians wield?
5432why melt your voice In dolorous strains, because the perjured fair Has made a younger choice?
5432why panting waters try To hurry down their zigzag bed?
5432why this passionate despair For cruel Glycera?
7278Had Greece but been as carping and as cold To new productions, what would now be old? 7278 Have you a mother, father, kin, To whom your life is precious?"
7278How''s this?
7278How,--anon He rambles off,--"how get you on, You and Maecenas?
7278I''ve nothing in the world to do, And what''s a paltry mile or two? 7278 Is it so?
7278Pyrrha, what slender boy, in perfume steeped, Doth in the shade of some delightful grot Caress thee now on couch with roses heaped? 7278 The Parthian, under Caesar''s reign, Or icy Scythian, who can dread, Or all the tribes barbarian bred By Germany, or ruthless Spain?
7278What witch, what magician, with drinks and with charms, What god can effect your release from her harms? 7278 Whence, friends, and whither to?"
7278Why doth he shun The Campus Martius''sultry glare? 7278 Why wilt thou kill me with thy boding fears?
7278With what poison is this that my vitals are heated? 7278 You wo n''t?
7278You''d have a speedy doom? 7278 ''But has he spoken?'' 7278 ''I say, where are you pushing to? 7278 ''The Thracian gladiator, can One match him with the Syrian?'' 7278 ''What shook the stage, and made the people stare?'' 7278 --And is Quinctilius, then, weighed down by a sleep that knows no waking?"
727812)?
727818):--"For me, when freshened by my spring''s pure cold, Which makes my villagers look pinched and old, What prayers are mine?
72782), we see what was the discipline he applied to himself--"You''re not a miser: has all other vice Departed in the train of avarice?
72782)--"Three hungry guests for different dishes call, And how''s one host to satisfy them all?"
727824), when a friend of signal nobleness and purity is suddenly struck down--"_Ergo Quinctilium perpetuus sopor urget_?"
7278All I meet Accost me thus--''Dear friend, you''re so Close to the gods, that you must know: About the Dacians, have you heard Any fresh tidings?
7278And does he still aspire To marry Theban strains to Latium''s lyre, Thanks to the favouring muse?
7278And wherefore should it be so, when Augustus has at command the genius of such men as Virgil and Varius?
7278And, when the bird''s cooked, what becomes of its splendour?
7278Are you afraid it will damage your reputation with posterity to be thought to have been one of my intimates?"
7278Are you all deaf?''
7278At length the town mouse;"What,"says he,"My good friend, can the pleasure be, Of grubbing here, on the backbone Of a great crag with trees o''ergrown?
7278But after me as still he came,"Sir, is there anything,"I cried,"You want of me?"
7278But is this any reason you should not apply Your superfluous wealth to ends nobler, more high?
7278But not about our neighbours''houses, Or if''tis generally thought That Lepos dances well or not?
7278But what concerns us nearer, and Is harmful not to understand, By what we''re led to choose our friends,-- Regard for them, or our own ends?
7278But where are the fever and the strong pulse of passion which, in less ethereal mortals, would be proper to such a theme?
7278By viper''s blood-- certes, it can not be less-- Stewed into the potherbs; can I have been cheated?
7278Can you make of the feathers you prize so a feast?
7278Can you make sport of portents, gipsy crones, Hobgoblins, dreams, raw head and bloody bones?
7278Did not Achilles succumb to Briseis, Ajax to Tecmessa, Agamemnon himself to Cassandra?
7278Do n''t talk to me of taste, Ofellus continues--"Will it give you a notion If this pike in the Tiber was caught, or the ocean?
7278For whom dost thou thine amber tresses knot"With all thy seeming- artless grace?
7278Gibbon speaks contemptuously of many of the incidents recorded in this poem, asking,"How could a man of taste reflect on them the day after?"
7278Give you up, or my cause?"
7278HE.--What, if our ancient love return, And bind us with a closer tie, If I the fair- haired Chloë spurn, And as of old, for Lydia sigh?
7278Have they rain- water or fresh springs to drink?
7278Have we never encountered a piscatory Gargilius near the Spey or the Tweed?
7278He that once recked of neither dust nor sun, Why rides he there,"First of the brave, Taming the Gallic steed no more?
7278How should it have been otherwise?
7278How think ye then?
7278I am sure he could not have written any two consecutive stanzas of Horace; and if he could not, who could?"
7278I, choked with rage, said,"Was there not Some business, I''ve forgotten what, You mentioned, that you wished with me To talk about, and privately?"
7278If better course none offer, why should we Not seize the happy auspices, and boldly put to sea?
7278If it used''twixt the bridges to glide and to quiver, Or was tossed to and fro at the mouth of the river?"
7278If she had injured him, what of that?
7278In what does good consist, and what Is the supremest form of that?
7278In what state did Horace find Italy after his return from Philippi?
7278Is his flesh than the capon''s more juicy or tender?
7278Is it so?
7278Just at this moment who but my Dear friend Aristius should come by?
7278Like the Persian poet, Omar Khayyám, this is ever in his thoughts--"What boots it to repeat, How Time is slipping underneath our feet?
7278Or Canidia, did she cook the villainous mess?
7278Or do ambitious longings, angry fret, The terror of the grave, torment you yet?
7278Or haply rage And mouth in bombast for the tragic stage?"
7278Or what young"oiled and curled"Oriental prince is for the future to pour out his wine for him?
7278Or why should you dare To think that misfortune will never o''ertake you?
7278Our temples, why should they be tumbling to wrack?
7278SHE.--Though lovelier than yon star is he, And lighter thou than cork-- ah why?
7278Say, are not these a sight, To warn a man from squandering his patrimonial means?''
7278Says me nay?"
7278So, when from town and all its ills I to my perch among the hills Retreat, what better theme to choose Than satire for my homely Muse?
7278The best need large grains of allowance, and to whom should these be given if not to friends?
7278The man who, you find, Has by luxuries pampered both body and mind?
7278The stately Epic Varius leads along, And where is voice so resonant, so strong?
7278Then why not sing, rejoins Trebatius, his justice and his fortitude,"Like sage Lucilius, in his lays To Scipio Africanus''praise?"
7278To what good, he asks, all this turmoil and disquiet?
7278To which of the royal damsels does he intend to throw the handkerchief, having first cut down her princely betrothed in single combat?
7278To- day though driven from his gate, What matter?
7278Unborn To- morrow, and dead Yesterday, Why fret about them if To- day be sweet?".
7278What is this?
7278What pleasure will you extract from these, which a moderate estate will not yield in equal, if not greater, measure?
7278What shall stop him, who starts at break of day From sleeping Rome, and on the Lucrine sails Before the sunshine into twilight pales?"
7278What standard works would there have been, to come Beneath the public eye, the public thumb?"
7278What then had he to gain by courting the favour of the head of the state?
7278What to the oak and ilex, that afford Fruit to the cattle, shelter to their lord?
7278What would you have, you madman, you?''
7278What, but that rich Tarentum must have been Transplanted nearer Rome, with all its green?
7278Where That colour?
7278Where now that beauty?
7278Where those movements?
7278Wherefore do you not Despatch this King here on the spot?
7278Which tract is best for game?
7278Who could take amiss the rebuke of the kindly satirist, who was so ready to show up his own weaknesses?
7278Who dance with such distinguished grace?
7278Who will best meet reverses?
7278Who would venture to deal in this way with the Eleanore, and"rare pale Margaret,"and Cousin Amy, of Mr Tennyson?
7278Who''d not to these wild woods prefer The city, with its crowds and stir?
7278Whom will Venus[1] send To rule our revel?
7278Why cast such very merciless stones at one who, by his own avowal, had erewhile witched his very soul from him?
7278Why do his arms no livid bruises soil, He, once so skilled,"The disc or dart Far, far beyond the mark to hurl?
7278Why doth he shrink from Tiber''s yellow wave?
7278Why is this?
7278Why rejoice to see this once beautiful creature the scoff of all the heartless young fops of Rome?
7278Why thus abhor"The wrestlers''oil, As''twere from viper''s tongue distilled?
7278Why, oh Maecenas, why?
7278Why, then, should he have felt thus abashed?
7278Why?
7278Will you here Stand witness?"
7278Would you Affront the circumcised Jew?"
7278Wretch, of all this great heap have you nothing to spare For our dear native land?
7278You ask, how is this?
7278You so rich, why should any good honest man lack?
7278You''d praise the climate; well, and what d''ye say To sloes and cornels hanging from the spray?
7278You''re bloated by ambition?
7278he cried with loud uproar,"Where are you off to?
7278how now, ye knaves, Inside three hundred people stuff?
7278is there nobody about?
7278my dear fellow, how d''ye do?"
7278on which sea- coast Urchins and other fish abound the most?
7278see you not, when striding down The Via Sacra[ 1]in your gown Good six ells wide, the passers there Turn on you with indignant stare?
7278shall we wreaths of oozy parsley trim,"Or simple myrtle?
7278when in you shall I Myself, eased of unpeaceful thoughts, espy?
7278when, when shall I be made The happy tenant of your shade?
5419''Who then is sane?'' 5419 Arrius''two sons, twin brothers, of a piece In vice, perverseness, folly, and caprice, Would lunch off nightingales: well, what''s their mark?
5419But surely that''s a merit quite unique, His gift of mixing Latin up with Greek,Unique, you lags in learning?
5419How now, you creature? 5419 How stand you with Maecenas?"
5419I,says a slave,"ne''er ran away nor stole:"Well, what of that?
5419So''twill not sink, what matter if my boat Be big or little? 5419 Take it?
5419Then what''s the attraction? 5419 What mischief have I done?"
5419What moves you, Agamemnon, thus to fling Great Ajax to the dogs? 5419 What of that?"
5419What said he?
5419What? 5419 What?
5419What? 5419 When with your withered lips you bill and coo, Is he that builds card- houses worse than you?
5419When you pick apple- pips, and try to hit The ceiling with them, are you sound of wit? 5419 Whither are you bound?"
5419Why not?
5419Will Caesar grant his veterans their estates In Italy, or t''other side of the straits?
5419Will Syria''s champion beat the Thracian cock?
5419''I may be right, I may be wrong,''said he,''Who cares?
5419''She calls me: ought I to obey her call, Or end this long infliction once for all?
5419''The price?''
5419''Then what''s a miser?''
5419''Well, if a man''s no miser, is he sane That moment?''
5419''What steps d''ye mean?''
5419''What?
5419''Why not sane?''
5419''Why, Stoic?''
5419''You wish to live?
5419''twixt the bridges twain, Or at the mouth where Tiber joins the main?
5419A bard who died a hundred years ago, With whom should he be reckoned, I would know?
5419A rancid boar our fathers used to praise: What?
5419A sage, you ask me?
5419A truce to murmuring: with another''s store To use at pleasure, who shall call you poor?
5419Albius, kind critic of my satires, say, What do you down at Pedum far away?
5419All in their way good things, but not just now: You''re happy at a cypress, we''ll allow; But what of that?
5419Am I worse trounced than you when I obey My stomach?
5419And how fare you?
5419And think you, on the strength of this, to rise A Paullus or Messala in our eyes?
5419And what''s the question that brings on these fits?-- Does Dolichos or Castor make more hits?
5419And you, sir Critic, does your finer sense In Homer mark no matter for offence?
5419And you, what aims are yours?
5419Antenor moves to cut away the cause Of all their sufferings: does he gain applause?
5419Ask you of me?
5419Ask you what makes the uncourteous reader laud My works at home, but run them down abroad?
5419Because she made these heavy those weigh light?
5419But grant that folks have different hobbies; say, Does one man ride one hobby one whole day?
5419But pray, since folly''s various, just explain What type is mine?
5419But tell me, Stoic, if the wise, you teach, Is king, Adonis, cobbler, all and each, Why wish for what you''ve got?
5419But what are Rhodes and Lesbos, and the rest, E''en let a traveller rate them at their best?
5419But what are we?
5419But what befalls the wight who yearns for more Than Nature bids him?
5419But what of Rome?
5419But what''s my sect?
5419But what''s the argument?
5419But where''s my vantage if you wo n''t agree To go by law, because the law''s with me?
5419But who are you to treat me to your raps?
5419But why should Rome capriciously forbid Our bards from doing what their fathers did?
5419But, if''tis still unbroken, what delight Can all that treasure give to mortal wight?
5419Can you be sane?
5419Can you make sport of portents, gipsy crones, Hobgoblins, dreams, raw head and bloody bones?
5419Cervius attacks his foes with writ and rule: Albutius''henbane is Canidia''s tool: How threatens Turius?
5419Come, tell me, Tillius, have you cause to thank The stars that gave you power, restored you rank?
5419Come, will you hear what wealth can fairly do?
5419D. What?
5419D. Who wants it?
5419Do all look poor beside our scenes at home, The field of Mars, the river of old Rome?
5419Does he not laugh at Ennius''halting verse, Yet own himself no better, if not worse?
5419Does purer water strain your pipes of lead Than that which ripples down the brooklet''s bed?
5419Felt they for Lupus or Metellus, when Whole floods of satire drenched the wretched men?
5419For me, when freshened by my spring''s pure cold Which makes my villagers look pinched and old, What prayers are mine?
5419For where''s the difference, down the rabble''s throat To pour your gold, or never spend a groat?
5419For where''s the voice so strong as to o''ercome A Roman theatre''s discordant hum?
5419From the high rostra a report comes down, And like a chilly fog, pervades the town: Each man I meet accosts me"Is it so?
5419Go back?
5419Gold counts for more than silver, all men hold: Why doubt that virtue counts for more than gold?
5419H. But who was lecturer?
5419H. Davus, eh?
5419H. For whom d''ye mean this twaddle, tell me now, You hang- dog?
5419H. Good varlet, how?
5419H. I own I''m foolish-- truth must have her will-- Nay, mad: but tell me, what''s my form of ill?
5419H. Ill verses?
5419H. Or a pike?
5419H. What shall I do?
5419H. What, never write a single line again?
5419H. What?
5419H. Where''s there a stone?
5419Had Greece but been as carping and as cold To new productions, what would now be old?
5419Had Rome no poets, who would teach the train Of maids and spotless youths their ritual strain?
5419Has the dear child a squint?
5419Have they rain- water or fresh springs to drink?
5419Have you or I, young fellows, looked more lean Since this new holder came upon the scene?
5419He paused for breath: I falteringly strike in:"Have you a mother?
5419He roars like thunder: then to me:"You''ll stand My witness, sir?"
5419His footsteps now I follow as I may, Lucanian or Apulian, who shall say?
5419How could I treat him worse, were he to thieve, Betray a secret, or a trust deceive?
5419How fix him down in one enduring type?
5419How is it all to end?
5419How like you Chios, good Bullatius?
5419How moderate care for things of trifling worth?
5419How now?
5419How shall I hold this Proteus in my gripe?
5419How should we view them?
5419I bid you take a sum you wo n''t return: You take it: is this madness, I would learn?
5419I''m dubbed Alcaeus, and retire in force: And who is he?
5419I, if I chance in laughing vein to note Rufillus''civet and Gargonius''goat, Must I be toad or scorpion?
5419If anything''s sufficient, why forswear, Embezzle, swindle, pilfer everywhere?
5419If both contain the modicum we lack, Why should your barn be better than my sack?
5419If hot sweet- cakes should tempt me, I am naught: Do you say no to dainties as you ought?
5419Is peace procured by honours, pickings, gains, Or, sought in highways, is she found in lanes?
5419Is springing grass less sweet to nose or eyes Than Libyan marble''s tesselated dyes?
5419Is there a spot where care contrives to keep At further distance from the couch of sleep?
5419Is there a wight can give a grand regale, Act as a poor man''s counsel or his bail?
5419Is this their reasoning?
5419Is virtue raised by culture or self- sown?
5419Lives there a partisan so weak of brain As to join issue on a fact so plain?
5419Man''s works must perish: how should words evade The general doom, and flourish undecayed?
5419May I ask questions then, and shortly speak When you have answered?
5419May he get up?
5419Messius had much to answer:"Was his chain Suspended duly in the Lares''fane?
5419Nay, more,"he asked,"why had he run away, When e''en a single pound of corn a day Had filled a maw so slender?"
5419Nay, you''re a perfect Hydra: who shall choose Which view to follow out of all your views?
5419None stirring?
5419Now, lodged in my hill- castle, can I choose Companion fitter than my homely Muse?
5419O when, Pythagoras, shall thy brother bean, With pork and cabbage, on my board be seen?
5419Of Smyrna what and Colophon?
5419One day when Maenius happened to attack Novius the usurer behind his back,"Do you not know yourself?"
5419Or e''en Lucilius, our good- natured friend, Sees he in Accius nought he fain would mend?
5419Or is it said that poetry''s like wine Which age, we know, will mellow and refine?
5419Or pick his steps, endeavour to walk clean, And fancy every mud- stain will be seen?
5419Or why should Plautus and Caecilius gain What Virgil or what Varius asks in vain?
5419Or would you turn to Lebedus for ease In mere disgust at weary roads and seas?
5419Or, starting for Brundisium, will it pay To take the Appian or Minucian way?
5419Press home the matter further: how d''ye call The thrall who''s servant to another thrall?
5419QUID TIBI VISA CHIOS?
5419Robbers get up by night, men''s throats to knive: Will you not wake to keep yourself alive?
5419Say, is your bosom fevered with the fire Of sordid avarice or unchecked desire?
5419Say, is your fancy fixed upon some town Which formed a gem in Attalus''s crown?
5419Say, what''s a miser but a slave complete When he''d pick up a penny in the street?
5419Say, would you rather have the things you scrawl Doled out by pedants for their boys to drawl?
5419Shall bug Pantilius vex me?
5419Shall it be chalk or charcoal, white or dark?
5419Sides, stomach, feet, if these are all in health, What more could man procure with princely wealth?
5419Sire of the morning( do I call thee right, Or hear''st thou Janus''name with more delight?)
5419So Tantalus catches at the waves that fly His thirsty palate-- Laughing, are you?
5419Such are the marks of freedom: look them through, And tell me, is there one belongs to you?
5419T. Indeed?
5419That Damasippus shows himself insane By buying ancient statues, all think plain: But he that lends him money, is he free From the same charge?
5419The heart that air- blown vanities dilate, Will medicine say''tis in its normal state?
5419The nuptial bed is in his hall; he swears None but a single life is free from cares: Is he a bachelor?
5419The priceless early or the worthless late?
5419The size attracts you: well then, why dislike The selfsame quality when found in pike?
5419The stomach here is sound as any bell, Craterus may say: then is the patient well?
5419Then, as he still kept walking by my side, To cut things short,"You''ve no commands?"
5419Think too of Rome: can I write verses here, Where there''s so much to tease and interfere?
5419Think you by turning lazy to exempt Your life from envy?
5419Three guests, I find, for different dishes call, And how''s one host to satisfy them all?
5419UNDE ET QUO CATIUS?
5419Was this your breeding?
5419Wastes he a thought on Horace?
5419We stop: inquiries and replies go round:"Where do you hail from?"
5419Well, betwixt these, what should a wise man do?
5419Well, but for us; what thoughts should ours be, say, Removed from vulgar judgments miles away?
5419Well, could Pomponius''sire to life return, Think you he''d rate his son in tones less stern?
5419Well, here''s a poet now, whose dying day Fell one month later, or a twelvemonth, say: Whom does he count with?
5419Well, when you offered in a heifer''s stead Your child, and strewed salt meal upon her head, Then were you sane, I ask you?
5419Were it not greater madness to renounce The prey that Mercury puts within your pounce?
5419Were turbots then less common in the seas?
5419What ails me now, to dose myself each spring?
5419What answer would you make to such as these?
5419What boot Menander, Plato, and the rest You carried down from town to stock your nest?
5419What can I do?
5419What constitutes a madman?
5419What gives you appetite?
5419What good were that, if though I mind my ways And shun all blame, I do not merit praise?
5419What if a man appeared with gown cut short, Bare feet, grim visage, after Cato''s sort?
5419What if at last a greater fool you''re found Than I, the slave you bought for twenty pound?
5419What if your grandfathers, on either hand, Father''s and mother''s, were in high command?
5419What if, Maecenas, none, though ne''er so blue His Tusco- Lydian blood, surpasses you?
5419What is my Celsus doing?
5419What marvel if, when wealth''s your one concern, None offers you the love you never earn?
5419What matters it if, when you eat your snack,''Twas paid for yesterday, or ten years back?
5419What matters it to reasonable men Whether they plough a hundred fields or ten?
5419What of the town of Samos, trim and neat, And what of Sardis, Croesus''royal seat?
5419What shall a poet do?
5419What soothes annoy, and makes your heart your own?
5419What standard works would there have been, to come Beneath the public eye, the public thumb?
5419What then?
5419What then?
5419What though the marsh, once waste and watery, now Feeds neighbour towns, and groans beneath the plough?
5419What though the river, late the corn- field''s dread, Rolls fruit and blessing down its altered bed?
5419What to the oak and ilex, that afford Fruit to the cattle, shelter to their lord?
5419What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl?
5419What would you more?
5419What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?
5419What''s coming, pray, that thus he winds his horn?
5419What, but that rich Tarentum must have been Transplanted nearer Rome with all its green?
5419What, give a slave the wall?
5419What?
5419What?
5419What?
5419What?
5419What?
5419What?
5419When I once think a thing, I may n''t speak out?
5419When Marius killed his mistress t''other day And broke his neck, was he demented, say?
5419Where have you milder winters?
5419Where is the gain in pulling from the mind One thorn, if all the rest remain behind?
5419Where shall I find his like for heart and head?"
5419Which place is best supplied with corn, d''ye think?
5419Which should he copy, think you, of the two?
5419Which was more mad?
5419Who broached that slander?
5419Who reads not Naevius?
5419Who then is free?
5419Whom call we good?
5419Why are Jove''s temples tumbling to the ground?
5419Why does one good man want while you abound?
5419Why hail me poet, if I fail to seize The shades of style, its fixed proprieties?
5419Why lengthen out the tale?
5419Why not?
5419Why should false shame compel me to endure An ignorance which common pains would cure?
5419Why should the Gods have put me at my ease, If I may n''t use my fortune as I please?
5419Why, what did Ajax when the flock was slain?
5419Why?
5419Why?
5419Would you be told how best your pearls to thread?
5419Would you respect him, hail him from henceforth The heir of Cato''s mind, of Cato''s worth?
5419Would you your play should prosper and endure?
5419Yet what says Milvius?
5419Yet where''s the profit, if you hide by stealth In pit or cavern your enormous wealth?
5419You are our great king- killer: why delay To kill this King?
5419You fear to come to want yourself, you say?
5419You live so near the gods, you''re sure to know: That news about the Dacians?
5419You offer up your daughter for a lamb; And are you rational?
5419You see that pike: what is it tells you straight Where those wide jaws first opened for the bait, In sea or river?
5419You think to fix it?
5419You''d praise the climate: well, and what d''ye say To sloes and cornels hanging from the spray?
5419You''re bloated by ambition?
5419Your side''s in pain; a doctor hits the blot: You wish to live aright( and who does not?
5419a knack Caught by Pitholeon with his hybrid clack?
5419all say nay?
5419although I ne''er was taught, Is that a cause for owning I know nought?"
5419are they Greater or less than travellers''stories say?
5419are you mad, or do you mean to balk My thirst for knowledge by this riddling talk?
5419at home he''s classed With Venus''self;"her eyes have just that cast:"Is he a dwarf like Sisyphus?
5419but pray tell me how yon came To know so well what scarce is known to fame?
5419clamours some one, not without A threat or two,"just mind what you''re about: What?
5419cries the soldier stout, When years of toil have well- nigh worn him out: What says the merchant, tossing o''er the brine?
5419devote no modicum To your dear country from so vast a sum?
5419do you eat the feathers?
5419does he dare to say me nay?"
5419does he suit The strains of Thebes or Latium''s virgin lute, By favour of the Muse, or grandly rage And roll big thunder on the tragic stage?
5419had the act been more insane To fling it in a river or a drain?
5419had they then no noses in those days?
5419have you heard No secret tidings?"
5419have you kith or kin To whom your life is precious?"
5419how d''ye do?"
5419if Maecenas does a thing, must you, His weaker every way, attempt it too?
5419is Agave conscious that she''s mad When she holds up the head of her poor lad?
5419is all this care To save your stores for some degenerate heir, A son, or e''en a freedman, who will pour All down his throttle, ere a year is o''er?
5419is that a reason he should seem Less pleasant, less deserving my esteem?
5419is there none Hears me?"
5419make rules his sport, And dash through thick and thin, through long and short?
5419men cry:"Free, gently born, unblemished and correct, His means a knight''s, what more can folks expect?"
5419of course I take it,"you reply;"You love the praise yourself, then why not I?"
5419of the men I know, With whom I live, have any told you so?
5419ought they to convulse The well- strung frame and agitate the pulse?
5419quoth she:"is this as big?"
5419said one,"or think That if you play the stranger, we shall wink?"
5419shall I choke Because Demetrius needs must have his joke Behind my back, and Fannius, when he dines With dear Tigellius, vilifies my lines?
5419show no reverence to his sacred shade Whose scenes great Roscius and Aesopus played?"
5419some one cries,"have you no failings?"
5419sure I need not die; Heaven can do all things:''ay, the man was sane In ears and eyes: but how about his brain?
5419take three hundred in?
5419then can you not expend Your superflux on some diviner end?
5419they take the stripe, draw on the shoe, And hear folks asking,"Who''s that fellow?
5419true, my back is made to pay: But when you let rich tit- bits pass your lip That cost no trifle, do you''scape the whip?
5419what Think you of Lesbos, that world- famous spot?
5419what matters it if I Die by disease or robbery?
5419what thymy ground Allures the bee to hover round and round?
5419what?
5419what?
5419when Shall I behold your pleasant face again; And, studying now, now dozing and at ease, Imbibe forgetfulness of all this tease?
5419when''tis drest And sent to table, does it still look best?
5419whence and whither?
5419while I live?''
5419who?"
5419why?
5419with the old, or them Whom we and future times alike contemn?
5419would you have me live like some we know, Maenius or Nomentanus?"
5419you mean my word to doubt?
5419you must knock down all that''s in your way, Because you''re posting to Maecenas, eh?"
5419you to twist men''s necks or scourge them, you, The son of Syrus, Dama, none knows who?"
14020Another man''s wife captivates you; a harlot, Davus: which of us sins more deservingly of the cross? 14020 Base Europa,"thy absent father urges,"why do you hesitate to die?
14020Can he deny me?
14020Have you a mother,[ or any] relations that are interested in your welfare?
14020How stands it with Maecenas and you?
14020In what respect to me, scoundrel?
14020Is Gallina, the Thracian, a match for[ the gladiator] Syrus?
14020Let Ulysses be heir to one fourth of my estate:"is then my companion Damas now no more? 14020 What is your will, madman, and what are you about, impudent fellow?"
14020What occasion is there for it?
14020What shall I not go to her now, when she invites me of her own accord? 14020 What therefore do you persuade me to?
14020What; do you eat that plumage, which you extol? 14020 What?
14020Whence come you? 14020 Where can I get a stone?"
14020Where some darts?
14020Who then is free? 14020 Will you not tell to- day, you varlet, whither such wretched stuff as this tends?"
14020Wretch that I am, what have I done? 14020 ( for what greater impiety could they have committed?) 14020 A certain person, known to me by name only, runs up; and, having seized my hand,How do you do, my dearest fellow?"
14020A large vase at first was designed: why, as the wheel revolves, turns out a little pitcher?
14020A writer who died a hundred years ago, is he to be reckoned among the perfect and ancient, or among the mean and modern authors?
14020After a long cessation, O Venus, again are you stirring up tumults?
14020Albius, thou candid critic of my discourses, what shall I say you are now doing in the country about Pedum?
14020Among the old poets, or among those whom both the present age and posterity will disdainfully reject?
14020An ounce is added: what will that be?
14020And how I was shocked at the voices and actions of these two furies, a spectator however by no means incapable of revenge?
14020And how Jupiter glazes the settled snow with his bright influence?
14020And is there none to whom you dare confess, that the more you get the more you crave?
14020And is your heart pure, while it is swollen with the vice?
14020And shall you,[ assuming the office] of Pontiff[ with regard to my] Esquilian incantations, fill the city with my name unpunished?
14020And therefore do you esteem yourself a Paulus or a Messala?
14020And what the hideous looks of all these[ hags, fixed] upon me alone?
14020Are they all contemptible in comparison of the Campus Martius and the river Tiber?
14020Are they greater or less than their fame?
14020Are they in their senses?
14020Are they to be marked With chalk, or with charcoal?
14020Are unlearned constitutions the less robust?
14020Are you forgiving to your friends?
14020Are you ignorant of what value money has, what use it can afford?
14020Are you ignorant, that you are the wife of the invincible Jove?
14020Are you in your senses?
14020Are you right in your head, when you willfully commit a crime for empty titles?
14020At length the citizen addressing him,''Friend,''says he,''what delight have you to live laboriously on the ridge of a rugged thicket?
14020Be it so; do you, who are a scholar, find no fault with any thing in mighty Homer, I pray?
14020Beside other[ difficulties], do you think it practicable for me to write poems at Rome, amid so many solicitudes and so many fatigues?
14020But by luck his adversary met him: and,"Whither are you going, you infamous fellow?"
14020But by what means did you get so well acquainted with me?
14020But oh, by all the gods in heaven, who rule the earth and human race, what means this tumult?
14020But shall I on this account run riot and write licentiously?
14020But unless that be the case, what beauty has an accumulated hoard?
14020But what is the subject of this controversy?
14020But why should the Romans grant to Plutus and Caecilius a privilege denied to Virgil and Varius?
14020By what gift are you able to distinguish, whether this lupus, that now opens its jaws before us, was taken in the Tiber, or in the sea?
14020Can we wonder that cattle feed upon the meadows and corn- fields of Democritus, while his active soul is abroad[ traveling] without his body?
14020Can you laugh at dreams, magic terrors, wonders, witches, nocturnal goblins, and Thessalian prodigies?
14020Can you, grown rank with lengthened age, ask what unnerves my vigor?
14020Can you, out of these, recognize any thing applicable to yourself?
14020Damasippus is mad for purchasing antique statues: but is Damasippus''creditor in his senses?
14020Did I ever, when my ardor was at the highest, demand a woman descended from a great consul, and covered with robes of quality?"
14020Do Thrace and Hebrus, bound with icy chains, or the narrow sea running between the neighboring towers, or Asia''s fertile plains and hills detain you?
14020Do ye hear?
14020Do you ask why?
14020Do you grow milder and better as old age approaches?
14020Do you hear with what a noise your gate, with what[ a noise] the grove, planted about your elegant buildings, rebellows to the winds?
14020Do you hesitate?
14020Do you hope that grief, and uneasiness, and bitter anxieties, will be expelled from your breast by such verses as these?
14020Do you not perceive, O Pyrrhus, at what hazard yon are taking away the whelps from a Gutulian lioness?
14020Do you number your birth- days with a grateful mind?
14020Do you swell with the love of praise?
14020Do you think it is of no consequence, whether your distresses arise from your own fault or from[ a real deficiency] of things?
14020Do you think virtue mere words, as a grove is trees?
14020Do you wonder that no one tenders you the affection which you do not merit, since you prefer your money to everything else?
14020Does a man of probity live among us?
14020Does any body hear?''
14020Does blind phrenzy, or your superior valor, or some crime, hurry you on at this rate?
14020Does he employ himself to adapt Theban measures to the Latin lyre, under the direction of his muse?
14020Does it already seem little to you, who are practiced in deceit, to be brought back to Ithaca, and to behold[ again] your family household gods?
14020Does not he ridicule many of Ennius''verses, which are too light for the gravity[ of the subject]?
14020Does one of Attalus''cities enter into your wish?
14020Does the facetious Lucilius make no alterations in the tragedies of Accius?
14020Does then perpetual sleep oppress Quinctilius?
14020Does your heart burn with avarice, and a wretched desire of more?
14020Dost thou delay the golden chariots and untouched heifers?
14020Eupolis, Archilochus?
14020For what end did you bring abroad such companions?
14020For what is the difference, whether you fling whatever you have into a gulf, or make no use of your acquisitions?
14020For what shall I follow, or whom?
14020For what taste could an unlettered clown and one just dismissed from labors have, when in company with the polite; the base, with the man of honor?
14020For what voices are able to overbear the din with which our theatres resound?
14020For who would save[ an ass] against his will?
14020For whom do you bind your golden hair, plain in your neatness?
14020For whom were labored the fleeces of the richest Tyrian dye?
14020For why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if any thing gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year?
14020For you?
14020From what have our youth restrained their hands, out of reverence to the gods?
14020From what principle is this, if not a suggestion from within?
14020From what source do you throw this calumny upon me?
14020Granted, if they are scandalous: but if a man composes good ones, and is praised by such a judge as Caesar?
14020Has he in his hall the genial bed?
14020Has he nothing servile about him, who in indulgence to his guts sells his estates?
14020Has he said any thing yet?
14020Has not the husband of the offending dame a just power over both; against the seducer even a juster?
14020Has viper''s blood, infused in these herbs, deceived me?
14020Have the rest of your vices fled from you, together with this?
14020Have you any regard for reputation, which affects the human ear more agreeably than music?
14020Have you escaped?
14020Have you no faults?"
14020He[ prudently] sat still who was afraid lest he should not succeed: be it so; what then?
14020Here the fell Canidia, gnawing her unpaired thumb with her livid teeth, what said she?
14020How do you come off with more impunity, since you hanker after such dainties as can not be had for a little expense?
14020How mindful is he of me?
14020How much did it cost?
14020How much more savingly have either I lived, or how much less neatly have you gone, my children, since this new possessor came?
14020How much more to the purpose he, who attempts nothing improperly?
14020How much then?
14020How so?
14020I ask you, when Marius lately, after he had stabbed Hellas, threw himself down a precipice, was he raving mad?
14020I shall still stick close to you; I shall follow you hence: Where are you at present bound for?"
14020I will bear it?
14020If I am allured by a smoking pasty, I am a good- for- nothing fellow: does your great virtue and soul resist delicate entertainments?
14020If a man barks only at him who deserves his invectives, while he himself is unblamable?
14020If any thing be a sufficiency, wherefore are you guilty of perjury[ wherefore] do you rob, and plunder from all quarters?
14020If he be rich, who is wise, and a good shoemaker, and alone handsome, and a king, why do you wish for that which you are possessed of?
14020If my oak and holm tree accommodate my cattle with plenty of acorns, and their master with a copious shade?
14020If my[ very] briers produce in abundance the ruddy cornels and damsens?
14020In this too I am anxious-- who takes upon himself to write the military achievements of Augustus?
14020In trays, in mats, in sawdust,[ that are so] cheap, what great expense can there be?
14020In what caverns, meditating the immortal honor of illustrious Caesar, shall I be heard enrolling him among the stars and the council of Jove?
14020In what manner do you think they are to be looked upon, with what apprehensions and countenance?
14020Into what groves, into what recesses am I driven, actuated with uncommon spirit?
14020Is Ajax delirious, while he kills the harmless lambs?
14020Is another impertinent, and apt to brag a little?
14020Is any one then your voucher, with whom I have lived?
14020Is he immoderately fond of being praised?
14020Is he therefore well, and shall he get up?
14020Is it free from the fear of death and from anger?
14020Is not Naevius in people''s hands, and sticking almost fresh in their memory?
14020Is that boy guilty, who by night pawns a stolen scraper for some grapes?
14020Is the grass inferior in smell or beauty to the Libyan pebbles?
14020Is the water, which strives to burst the lead in the streets, purer than that which trembles in murmurs down its sloping channel?
14020Is there a place where envious care less disturbs our slumbers?
14020Is there any spot where the winters are more temperate?
14020Is there too little of Roman blood spilled upon land and sea?
14020Is this agreeable?
14020Is your breast free from vain ambition?
14020It is my pleasure to rave; why cease the breathings of the Phrygian flute?
14020Laugh[ at him too]: is he not forever changing his garrets, beds, baths, barbers?
14020Less and less often do you now hear:"My Lydia, dost thou sleep the live- long night, while I your lover am dying?"
14020Let fortune rage, and stir up new tumults what can she do more to impair my estate?
14020Let the brother of Opuntian Megilla then declare, with what wound he is blessed, with what dart he is dying.--What, do you refuse?
14020Let the son of Albinus tell me, if from five ounces one be subtracted, what remains?
14020Lucullus, as they say, being asked if he could lend a hundred cloaks for the stage,"How can I so many?"
14020Lydia, I conjure thee by all the powers above, to tell me why you are so intent to ruin Sybaris by inspiring him with love?
14020Now if any one should ask,"To what does this matter tend?"
14020Now some person may say to me,"What are you?
14020O Agamemnon, why do you prohibit any one from burying Ajax?
14020O Jupiter, father and sovereign, may my weapon laid aside wear away with rust, and may no one injure me, who am desirous of peace?
14020O cur, thou coward against wolves, why dost thou persecute innocent strangers?
14020O fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou?
14020O what are you doing?
14020O when shall the bean related to Pythagoras, and at the same time herbs well larded with fat bacon, be set before me?
14020On the other side, the merchant, when the south winds toss his ship[ cries],"Warfare is preferable;"for why?
14020Or are their limbs less stout?
14020Or can it vex me, that Demetrius carps at me behind my back?
14020Or do you admire Lebedus, through a surfeit of the sea and of traveling?
14020Or does he storm and swell in the pompous style of traffic art?
14020Or has Canidia dressed this baleful food?
14020Or shall I endure this toil with such a courage, as becomes effeminate men to bear?
14020Or should not I rather suppose, that all the world are to see my faults; secure, and cautious[ never to err] but with hope of being pardoned?
14020Or tell me, what is it to the purpose of that man, who lives within the compass of nature, whether he plow a hundred or a thousand acres?
14020Or whether the ill- patched reconciliation in vain closes, and is rent asunder again?
14020Or why are the swords drawn, that were[ so lately] sheathed?
14020Or why do not my cheeks return, unimpaired, to these my present sentiments?
14020Or would you choose to have a trick put upon you, and your money extorted, before the goods are shown you?
14020Robbers rise by night, that they may cut men''s throats; and will not you awake to save yourself?
14020Shall he be given to pleasure?
14020Shall he, a dotard, scribble wretched verses?
14020She began to ask, how big?
14020She has excluded me; she recalls me: shall I return?
14020Suppose this[ young man''s] mind had addressed him in the words of his appetite, perceiving such evil consequences:"What would you have?
14020Tell me the name of this man; and at the same time whether he is a Roman, or a foreigner?
14020Tell me, pray is the Roscian law best, or the boy''s song which offers the kingdom to them that do right, sung by the manly Curii and Camilli?
14020That I should lead the life of Naevius, or in such a manner as a Nomentanus?"
14020This too frequently drives away and deters even an adventurous poet?
14020Though you be like highwaymen, Coelus and Byrrhus, I am not[ a common accuser], like Caprius and Sulcius; why should you be afraid of me?
14020To the end, forsooth, that you may gain those applauses, which Agrippa gains, like a cunning fox imitating a generous lion?
14020To what intent then do you contemn large lupuses?
14020To what purpose are our woeful complaints, if sin is not cut off with punishment?
14020To what purpose have I fortune, if I may not use it?
14020To what purpose was it to stow Plato upon Menander?
14020To whom shall Jupiter assign the task of expiating our wickedness?
14020To whom when will modesty, and uncorrupt faith the sister of Justice, and undisguised truth, find any equal?
14020Was it better to travel over the tedious waves, or to gather the fresh flowers?
14020Was it not bravely done by him, who carried his point?
14020Were any one to take pains to give him aid, and let down a rope;"How do you know, but he threw himself in hither on purpose?"
14020What altars have they spared?
14020What barbarian virgin shall be your slave, after you have killed her betrothed husband?
14020What beast, when it has once escaped by breaking its toils, absurdly trusts itself to them again?
14020What boy from the court shall be made your cup- bearer, with his perfumed locks, skilled to direct the Seric arrows with his father''s bow?
14020What can I do better on the festal day of Neptune?
14020What can one do to such a tribe as this?
14020What could he answer?
14020What dainty youth, bedewed with liquid perfumes, caresses you, Pyrrha, beneath the pleasant grot, amid a profusion of roses?
14020What did I want?"
14020What did it profit you, O Tullius, to resume the robe that you[ were forced] to lay aside, and become a tribune[ again]?
14020What do you think of the gifts of the earth?
14020What do you yourself undertake?
14020What does Paris?
14020What does he pray for, while he pours from the flagon the first libation?
14020What does it signify, whether you live on what was paid for the other day, or a long while ago?
14020What does not wasting time destroy?
14020What does not wine freely drunken enterprise?
14020What does the poet beg from Phoebus on the dedication of his temple?
14020What does the poor man?
14020What event, or what penalty awaits me?
14020What follows, because the Stoic treatises sometimes love to be on silken pillows?
14020What god?
14020What have we, a hardened age, avoided?
14020What have you[ remaining] of her, of her, who breathed loves, and ravished me from myself?
14020What is it fitting for us to do, who are far, very far removed from the vulgar[ in our sentiments]?
14020What is my Celsus doing?
14020What is the covetous man?
14020What is the difference[ then, with regard to yourself,] whether you sin with the person of a matron, a maiden, or a prostitute?
14020What is the matter?
14020What is there that pleases or is odious, which you may not think mutable?
14020What lessens cares, what may endear you to yourself?
14020What man, what hero, O Clio, do you undertake to celebrate on the harp, or the shrill pipe?
14020What manner of living therefore shall the wise man put in practice, and which of these examples shall he copy?
14020What need of many words?
14020What of Sardis, the royal residence of Croesus?
14020What of Smyrna, and Colophon?
14020What of neat Samos?
14020What of scenical shows, the applause and favors of the kind Roman?
14020What of the sea, that enriches the remote Arabians and Indians?
14020What perfectly renders the temper calm; honor or enticing lucre, or a secret passage and the path of an unnoticed life?
14020What pleasure is it for you, trembling to deposit an immense weight of silver and gold in the earth dug up by stealth?
14020What poison is this that rages in my entrails?
14020What pool, what rivers, are unconscious of our deplorable war?
14020What profits you only one thorn eradicated out of many?
14020What sea have not the Daunian slaughters discolored?
14020What shall I do?
14020What shall I do?
14020What shall I give?
14020What shall I not give?
14020What shall I, a provident augur, fear?
14020What shame or bound can there be to our affectionate regret for so dear a person?
14020What shore is unstained by our blood?
14020What slave is here, instantly to cool some cups of ardent Falernian in the passing stream?
14020What then did he moan, when he appointed by will that his heirs should engrave the sum of their patrimony upon his tomb- stone?
14020What then did the mad Ajax do, when he slew the flock with his sword?
14020What then have I profited, if you nevertheless arraign the conditions that make for me?
14020What then pleases?
14020What therefore[ is to be determined in this matter]?
14020What thyme are you busy hovering about?
14020What was the consequence?
14020What will be the consequence?
14020What will this boaster produce worthy of all this gaping?
14020What witch, what magician, with his Thessalian incantations, what deity can free you?
14020What wonder?
14020What works is the studious train planning?
14020What would the son of Mars and Ilia be, if invidious silence had stifled the merits of Romulus?
14020What would you be at, you woman fitter for the swarthy monsters?
14020What would you have me do?
14020What would you have me do?
14020What wouldst thou have more?
14020What, Bullatius, do you think of Chios, and of celebrated Lesbos?
14020What, Davus?
14020What, art thou in a[ prophetic] raving; or dost thou play upon me designedly, by uttering obscurities?
14020What, do you imagine that he ran?
14020What, if a man devote his daughter instead of a dumb lambkin, is he right of mind?
14020What, if any cur attack me with malignant tooth, shall I, without revenge, blubber like a boy?
14020What, if you are found out to be a greater fool than me, who was purchased for five hundred drachmas?
14020What, is it abundantly sufficient to avoid the person, and not the[ vice] which is universally noxious?
14020What, shall I walk cheek by jole with a filthy Damas?
14020What, shall that grubworm Pantilius have any effect upon me?
14020What, shall you, without being made an example of, deride the Cotyttian mysteries, sacred to unrestrained love, which were divulged[ by you]?
14020What, so big?
14020What, while I am alive?
14020What, will matters always go well with you alone?
14020What, would you be such a fool as to be ambitious that your verses should be taught in petty schools?
14020What-- if a man be not covetous, is he immediately[ to be deemed] sound?
14020What-- is it fitting that, in every thing Maecenas does, you, who are so very much unlike him and so much his inferior, should vie with him?
14020What-- when mad Agave carries the amputated head of her unhappy son, does she then seem mad to herself?
14020What-- when you strike out faltering accents from your antiquated palate, how much wiser are you than[ a child] that builds little houses?
14020What-- when, picking the pippins from the Picenian apples, you rejoice if haply you have hit the vaulted roof; are you yourself?
14020What?
14020What?
14020What?
14020What?
14020What?
14020What[ do you do], when my judgment contradicts itself?
14020When Maenius railed at Novius in his absence:"Hark ye,"says a certain person,"are you ignorant of yourself?
14020When he shall have[ at last] released you from your long servitude and anxiety; and being certainly awake, you shall hear[ this article in his will]?
14020When he still followed me;"Would you any thing?"
14020When you dispatch your wife with a rope, and your mother with poison, are you right in your head?
14020When your passions are inflamed, and a common gratification is at hand, would you rather be consumed with desire than possess it?
14020Whence do you think this happens?
14020Whence should the virgin, stranger to a husband, with the chaste boys, learn the solemn prayer, had not the muse given a poet?
14020Whence, and whither, Catius?
14020Whence, whither am I come?
14020Whereas if novelty had been detested by the Greeks as much as by us, what at this time would there have been ancient?
14020Wherefore, when I have removed myself from the city to the mountains and my castle,( what can I polish, preferably to my satires and prosaic muse?)
14020Whether it were so great?
14020Whether shall I, at your command, pursue my ease, which can not be pleasing unless in your company?
14020Which is the greater madman of these two?
14020While you leave us to take as much out of a moderate store, why should you extol your granaries, more than our corn- baskets?
14020Whither are you going?
14020Whither is your beauty gone?
14020Whither your graceful deportment?
14020Whither, O Bacchus, art thou hurrying me, replete with your influence?
14020Whither, whither, impious men are you rushing?
14020Who can fear the Parthian?
14020Who can move his limbs with softer grace[ in the dance]?
14020Who cares for the war of fierce Spain?
14020Who diffuses into distant ages his deeds in war and peace?
14020Who does not rather[ celebrate] thee, Father Bacchus, and thee, comely Venus?
14020Who is so foolish an admirer of Lucilius, that he would not own this?
14020Who knows whether the gods above will add to this day''s reckoning the space of to- morrow?
14020Who takes care to quickly weave the chaplets of fresh parsely or myrtle?
14020Who then is a good man?
14020Who then is sound?
14020Who will tempt the vagrant wanton Lyde from her house?
14020Who would not?
14020Who, after wine, complains of the hardships of war or of poverty?
14020Who, the frozen Scythian?
14020Who, the progeny that rough Germany produces, while Caesar is in safety?
14020Whoever, by becoming an exile from his country, escaped likewise from himself?
14020Whom does false honor delight, or lying calumny terrify, except the vicious and sickly- minded?
14020Whom have not plentiful cups made eloquent?
14020Whom have they not[ made] free and easy under pinching poverty?
14020Whom of the gods shall the people invoke to the affairs of the sinking empire?
14020Whom shall the Venus pronounce to be master of the revel?
14020Whose name shall the sportive echo resound, either in the shady borders of Helicon, or on the top of Pindus, or on cold Haemus?
14020Whose son is he?"
14020Why are these compositions less efficacious than those of the barbarian Medea?
14020Why do not you, wretch that you are, bestow something on your dear country, out of so vast a hoard?
14020Why do we change our own for climates heated by another sun?
14020Why do we delay to go on ship- board under an auspicious omen?
14020Why do we, brave for a short season, aim at many things?
14020Why do you ask?
14020Why do you go on?
14020Why do you hesitate?"
14020Why do you laugh?
14020Why do you not, if you can, turn your empty yelpings hither, and attack me, who will bite again?
14020Why do you pour forth your entreaties to ears that are closely shut[ against them]?
14020Why do you send tokens, why billet- doux to me, and not to some vigorous youth, and of a taste not nice?
14020Why does he neither, in military accouterments, appear mounted among his equals; nor manage the Gallic steed with bitted reins?
14020Why does my fluent tongue falter between my words with an unseemly silence?
14020Why dost thoti kill me with thy complaints?
14020Why fears he to touch the yellow Tiber?
14020Why hates he the sunny plain, though inured to bear the dust and heat?
14020Why is a tenderness for my belly too destructive for me?
14020Why is the pipe hung up with the silent lyre?
14020Why many words?
14020Why not?
14020Why should I exchange my Sabine vale for wealth, which is attended with more trouble?
14020Why should I mention every particular?
14020Why should I multiply words?
14020Why should this frenzy affect the obstreperous poets in a less degree?
14020Why shuns he the oil of the ring more cautiously than viper''s blood?
14020Why so, Stoic?
14020Why so?
14020Why who but Callimachus?
14020Why, out of false modesty, do I prefer being ignorant to being learned?
14020Will you not prefer men and the city to the savage woods?
14020With what disorder of the mind is she stricken?
14020With what noose can I hold this Proteus, varying thus his forms?
14020With what prayer shall the sacred virgins importune Vesta, who is now inattentive to their hymns?
14020Would you affront the circumcised Jews?"
14020Would you have me also take my share of stout Falernian?
14020Would you have me, amid so great noise both by night and day,[ attempt] to sing, and trace the difficult footsteps of the poets?
14020Would you know why the ungrateful reader extols and is fond of many works at home, unjustly decries them without doors?
14020Would you live happily?
14020Wretched are those, to whom thou untried seemest fair?
14020You are not covetous,[ you say]:--go to.--What then?
14020You may ask how I, unwarlike and infirm, can assist your labors by mine?
14020You must also write me word of this, whether Munatiua is of as much concern to you as he ought to be?
14020[ Thus, does] this friend of yours live more sparingly than ordinarily?
14020[ To what end all this?]
14020_ A smart description of a miser ridiculously acting the extravagant._ How did the entertainment of that happy fellow Nasidienus please you?
14020and how is it obtained?
14020and how miserably Barrus?
14020are you setting about appeasing envy by deserting virtue?
14020cries he,"if the horn were not cut off your forehead, what would you not do; since, maimed as you are, you bully at such a rate?"
14020do you think that arduous and admirable, which was done by Pitholeo the Rhodian?
14020has any one a better scheme to advise?
14020has any soldier of Crassus lived, a degraded husband with a barbarian wife?
14020if an untimely blow hurry away thee, a part of my soul, why do I the other moiety remain, my value lost, nor any longer whole?
14020if our former love returns, and unites by a brazen yoke us once parted?
14020mad after he had murdered his parent; and that he was not driven mad by the wicked Furies, before he warmed his sharp steel in his mother''s throat?
14020one that died a month or a year later, among whom is he to be ranked?
14020or because the trifler Fannius, that hanger- on to Hermogenes Tigellius, attempts to hurt me?
14020or do you think to impose yourself upon us a person we do not know?"
14020or does a pleasing frenzy delude me?
14020or has the bird the same beauty when dressed?"
14020or shall I rather think of putting an end to my pains?
14020or what did she not say?
14020or whither your bloom?
14020roars he with a loud voice: and,"Do you witness the arrest?"
14020was the sea at that time less nutritive of turbots?
14020what does it matter, whether I die of a disease, or by theft and rapine?
14020when he has heard[ of such knavery]?
14020when thirst parches your jaws, are you solicitous for golden cups to drink out of?
14020when you are hungry, do you despise everything but peacock and turbot?
14020where shall I find one so brave and so faithful?"
14020whether it was tossed between the bridges or at the mouth of the Tuscan river?
14020which of the two shall depend upon himself in exigences with most certainty?
14020whither are you going?"
14020why do you stand?"
14020why was not my present inclination the same, when I was young?
14020why, Ligurinus, does the tear every now and then trickle down my cheeks?
14020will Caesar give the lands he promised the soldiers, in Sicily, or in Italy?"