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At contra, hunc ignem Veneris, si non Venus ipsa, Nulla est quae possit vis alia opprimare." We have quoted these pieces, not from their intrinsic merit, for they have little or none, but to show the painful process by which Latin versification was elaborated. All these must be referred to a date at least sixty years after Ennius, and yet the rhythm is scarcely at all improved.
In obtaining a minute accuracy in these proportions, he employed many hours; on which he observed, "I fear I shall never attain them, and the usefulness of which is at least problematical; but 'Trahit sua quemque ipsa voluntas; my studies generally command me I seldom control them." The Report of Mr.
De Invent. 2, 140 imperium domesticum. ITA: = ea lege 'on these conditions, viz. ..., the clause with si being an explanation of ita. This correspondence of ita ... si is common in Cicero; see n. on 12 ita ... quasi. Here translate 'age can only be in honor if it fights for itself'. SE IPSA: cf. Cic. Acad. 2, 36 veritas se ipsa defendet; see also the n. on 4.
And now, I seem like an eager hunter, that has long pursued a chase after an inconsiderable quarry; and gives over, weary; as I do. p. 537 By JOHN DRYDEN Esq.; Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exors ipsa secandi. Horat. De Arte Poet. To the Right Honourable CHARLES LORD BUCKHURST. My Lord,
The following day he wrote: 'I fancy that I grow light and airy. A man that does not begin to grow light and airy at seventy is certainly losing time if he intends ever to be light and airy. Piozzi Letters, ii. 73. Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit. Juvenal, xiv. 139. He had seen it on his Tour in Wales on July 26, 1774. See post, vol. v. Dean Percy, ante, p. 365.
This implies that the circumstantial evidence, which he goes on to specify, convinced the writer and his friends, as well as the public, that poison administered by direction of Dom., was really the means of hastening A. out of the world. Dion Cassius expressly affirms, that he was poisoned, 66, 20. Principatus. The imperial government in general, i.e. former Emperors. Momenta ipsa deficientis.
Quo mihi rectius videtur ingenii quam virium opibus gloriam quaerere; et quoniam vita ipsa, qua fruimur, brevis est, memoriam nostri quam maxume longam efficere.
A correct Account of the most remarkable National Establishments and Public Buildings. In a Series of Letters, Ipsa varietate tentamus efficere, ut alia aliis, quaedem fortasse omnibus placeant. PLIN. Epist. A SKETCH OF PARIS, &c. &c. Paris, December 23, 1801.
He was Stoic, Platonist, Epicurean, as often as it suited him to employ their principles to enforce a moral lesson. Thus in his Naturales Quaestiones, where he has no moral object in view, he speaks of the Deity as Mens Universi, or Natura ipsa, quite in accordance with Stoic pantheism.
"Ipsa dierum Festorum herboso colitur si quando theatro Maiestas, tandemque redit ad pulpita notum Exodium, cum personae pallentis hiatum In gremio matris formidat rusticus infans; Aequales habitus illic, similemque videbis Orchestram et populum...."
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