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Though the former writ fables, the latter, speaking properly, began the Roman satire, according to that description which Juvenal gives of it in his first: "Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira voluptas, Gaudia, discurses, nostri est farrago libelli."
At times she seemed likely to weather the danger, and then the spectators congratulated her aloud: at others the wind and sea drove her visibly nearer, and the lookers-on were not without a secret satisfaction they would not have owned even to themselves. Non quia vexari quemquam est jucunda voluptas Sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.
and that there is nothing naturally so contrary to our taste as satiety which proceeds from facility; nor anything that so much whets it as rarity and difficulty: "Omnium rerum voluptas ipso, quo debet fugare, periculo crescit." "Galla, nega; satiatur amor, nisi gaudia torquent."
Are there not some constitutions that feed upon it? "Est quaedam flere voluptas;" and one Attalus in Seneca says, that the memory of our lost friends is as grateful to us, as bitterness in wine, when too old, is to the palate: "Minister vetuli, puer, Falerni Inger' mi calices amariores" Catullus, xxvii. and as apples that have a sweet tartness.
AETATIS: almost = senectutis: cf. n. on 45. ID QUOD EST etc.: 'the greatest fault of youth'; i.e. the love of pleasure. In this passage voluptas indicates pleasure of a sensual kind, its ordinary sense, delectatio, oblectatio etc. being used of the higher pleasures. In 51, however, we have voluptates agricolarum.
Murcia had her temple on Mount Aventine. From abeo, to go away; and adeo, to come. The festival of this goddess was in September, when the Romans drank new wine mixed with old, by way of physic. From vitulo, to leap or advance. From voluptas, pleasure. In a great murrain which destroyed their cattle, the Romans invoked this goddess, and she removed the plague. The image was a head without a body.
No. 141. Saturday, August 11, 1711. Steele. ... Migravit ab Aure voluptas Omnis ... Hor. In the present Emptiness of the Town, I have several Applications from the lower Part of the Players, to admit Suffering to pass for Acting. They in very obliging Terms desire me to let a Fall on the Ground, a Stumble, or a good Slap on the Back, be reckoned a Jest.
"Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discursus, nostri farrago Severni." But, alas! after an hour of touch-and-go, of superficiality and soft delight, the desultory charmer fell on a subject he had studied. So then he bored his companion for the first time in all the tour. But, to tell the honest truth, Mr.
Why do you not now at this instant settle yourself in the state you seem to aim at, and spare all the labour and hazard you interpose?" "Nimirum, quia non cognovit, qux esset habendi Finis, et omnino quoad crescat vera voluptas." I will conclude with an old versicle, that I think very apt to the purpose: "Mores cuique sui fingunt fortunam."
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