The Epistulae Morales of Seneca in Relation to the Text and Interpretation of Virgil

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University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1925 - 120 ページ

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5 ページ - ... princely affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's epistles to Lucilius, if you mark them well, are but essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles.
40 ページ - Si tibi occurrerit vetustis arboribus et solitam altitudinem egressis frequens lucus et conspectum coeli densitate ramorum aliorum alios protegentium submovens : ilia proceritas silvae et secretum loci et admiratio umbrae in aperto tarn densae atque continuae fidem tibi numinis facit.
21 ページ - Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.
41 ページ - Magnorum fluminum capita veneramur : subita ex abdito vasti amnis eruptio aras habet : coluntur aquarum calentium fontes, et stagna quaedam vel opacitas vel inmensa altitudo sacravit.
43 ページ - Given now an orator whose function is to speak the truth, to teach, and to use language that is in harmony with nature, it is easy to formulate a theory of style, the virtues of which shall be (1) pure and unperverted speech, (2) clearness, (3) precision, (4) conciseness, (5) appropriateness, (6) freedom from all artificial ornamentf/.ion.
4 ページ - The man with any historical imagination must be struck with amazement that such spiritual detachment, such lofty moral ideals, so pure an enthusiasm for the salvation of souls, should emerge from a palace reeking with all the crimes of the haunted races of Greek legend. That the courtier of the reigns of Caligula and Claudius, the tutor and minister of Nero, should not have escaped some stains may be probable : that such a man should have composed the Letters and the De Ira of Seneca is almost a...
2 ページ - TROJANI belli scriptorem, maxime Lolli, Dum tu declamas Romae, Praeneste relegi, Qui, quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, Planius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit.
51 ページ - Fortunati ambo ! si quid mea carmina possunt, nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo, dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
39 ページ - Prima hominis faciès et pulchro pectore virgo pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix, delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum. Praestat Trinacrii metas lustrare Pachyni cessantem, longos et circumflectere cursus, 430 quam semel informem vasto vidisse sub antro Scyllam, et caeruleis canibus resonantia saxa.
40 ページ - inquit " frondoso vértice collem, — Quis deus incertum est — habitat deus; Arcades ipsum Credunt se vidisse lovem, cum saepe nigrantem Aegida concuteret dextra, nimbosque cieret.

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