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We passed by a place where there is a very large stone, I may call it a rock; 'a vast weight for Ajax . The tradition is, that a giant threw such another stone at his mistress, up to the top of a hill, at a small distance; and that she in return, threw this mass down to him . It was all in sport. 'Malo me petit lasciva puella . As we advanced, we came to a large extent of plain ground.
Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti, Tempus abire tibi est, ne potum largius acquo Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas. A new generation, clever, audacious, and corrupt, had silently been growing up under the Empire. Ovid was thirty, and had published his Amores. The death of Virgil had left the field of serious poetry to little men.
His intimacy with these men, two of whom at least were eminently respectable, lends some support to his own statement, advanced to palliate the impurity of his verses: "Lasciva est nobis pagina: vita proba est." The year of his death is not certain.
'Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella. 'My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. DRYDEN. Virgil, Eclogues, iii. 64. 'The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies. Cato act ii. sc. 6. Johnson seems unwilling to believe this.
"A frolicsome child," he mused. "LASCIVA PUELLA. Possibly wanton." What were this young man's relations with the girl? That contact of hand and chin what did it imply? Was the action quasi-paternal, or pseudo-paternal? Regretfully he decided that it was only pseudo-paternal. And yet it was all so confoundedly natural!
Ah, well, more fool I more fool I. `Contentus esto, Paule mi, lasciva, Paule, pagina," he muttered to himself, and drummed nervously with his fingers on the table. Westray was apprehensive of these fits of excitement, and led the conversation back to the old theme.
We passed by a place where there is a very large stone, I may call it a ROCK 'a vast weight for Ajax'. The tradition is, that a giant threw such another stone at his mistress, up to the top of a hill, at a small distance; and that she in return, threw this mass down to him. It was all in sport. Malo me petit lasciva puella. As we advanced, we came to a large extent of plain ground.
Torva leaena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam; Florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella. VIRG. Eccl. ii. v. 63. The greedy lioness the wolf pursues, The wolf the kid, the wanton kid the browse.
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