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1 1 | 1] I wish to record an occurrence
2 10 | 10] Then the divine Augustus
3 11 | 11] It’s not the way in heaven.
4 12 | 12] While they were going down
5 13 | 13] Claudius was delighted
6 14 | 14] He led him to the bar of
7 15 | 15] Every time when he wanted
8 2 | 2] Now was come the season
9 3 | 3] Claudius began to give
10 4 | 4] Thus having spoken she
11 5 | 5] What happened afterward
12 6 | 6] And he would have imposed
13 7 | 7] Then Hercules said, “Listen
14 8 | 8] “It’s no wonder you have
15 9 | 9] At length it occurred to
16 14 | constantly escaping dice and to accomplish nothing; for ~
17 9 | admonitory touch on the ear. Accordingly he expressed his opinion
18 3 | for nobody ever made any account of his being born. Do what
19 14 | the name, and recorded the accusation: Senators killed, thirty-five;
20 14 | found as counsel for the accused until at length P. Petronius
21 5 | world and was supposed to be acquainted with all the nations, to
22 13 | nobody could recognize him, across the Campus Martius, and
23 4 | while listening to comic actors, so you understand it isn’
24 4(2)| incomprehensibility. The actual Latin (‘vae me, puto, concacavi
25 9 | and that this event be added to the Metamorphoses of
26 10 | made a god, I have never addressed you; I always mind my own
27 15 | with his fists. The man was adjudged to C. Caesar; Caesar presented
28 11 | be granted no rest from adjudicating cases, and that he be got
29 4 | to a thread that drew the admiring gaze of her sisters.~Changed
30 9 | politely and gave him an admonitory touch on the ear. Accordingly
31 10 | city on a basis of law, adorn it with monuments, that—
32 7 | he didn’t have the same advantage; a cock is master only on
33 9 | me; this is my personal affair. And then if you want anything,
34 1 | tongue. Who ever demanded affidavits from an historian? Still,
35 3 | sixty-fourth year that he has been afflicted with life. What grudge have
36 9 | opinion. He had been elected afternoon consul for the first of
37 5 | 5] What happened afterward on earth it is superfluous
38 12 | about like free men. Only Agatho and a few pettifoggers were
39 2 | seeing that Bacchus was aging,~Hastily, here and there,
40 2 | easier to get philosophers to agree than timepieces—but it was
41 4 | Joyously plied the plectrum, or aided the work of the spinners:~
42 8 | thing is halfway allowed; at Alexandria altogether. ‘But since at
43 4 | moment ceased to appear to be alive. He expired, moreover, while
44 4 | destiny passing all human allotment,~Wrought through the spell
45 4 | for sweet was the duty allotted.~She, in her eagerness,
46 1 | he saw Claudius limping along in the same direction. Willy-nilly,
47 8 | halfway allowed; at Alexandria altogether. ‘But since at Rome,’ you
48 13 | Polybius, Myron, Harpocras, Amphaeus, and Pheronactus, all of
49 12 | were chanting a dirge in anapests: “Pour forth your tears,
50 6 | point Claudius fired up and angrily grumbled as loudly as he
51 13 | up,” said Mercury, “and announce that we are coming.” In
52 11 | himself as one egg is to another, Scribonia his daughter’
53 11 | among you, if I have not answered anybody in an ungentlemanly
54 4 | his singing, and, happy in anticipation,~Joyously plied the plectrum,
55 13 | order that he might not be anywhere unprepared; then the two
56 4 | encircling his shoulders.”~ Thus Apollo. But Lachesis, who herself,
57 4 | from that moment ceased to appear to be alive. He expired,
58 13 | shorter for the sake of appearances. To Messalina—the report
59 1 | the superintendent of the Appian road, by which you know
60 11 | killed his father-in-law Appius Silanus, his two sons-in-law
61 1 | must produce my authority, apply to the man who saw Drusilla
62 13 | patron, and as the latter was approaching he ran up, all sleek from
63 14 | as to what would be an appropriate sentence for him. Various
64 7 | swiftly moving flood,~And Arar, pausing ere it lets its
65 13 | between the Tiber and the Arcade went down to the lower world.
66 7(3)| even only one leaf from the archetype from which they are all
67 9 | express an opinion nor to argue. “I had allowed you to ask
68 11 | and Assario; and they were aristocrats too, and Crassus besides
69 10 | Then the divine Augustus arose at the point for expressing
70 3 | going ahead of him, and all around him, should all of a sudden
71 14 | new punishment ought to be arranged, that for him must be devised
72 5 | Greek chap: ~ Who and whence art thou, and where are thy
73 4 | cleverly fashioned,~Under her artful fingers began with new colors
74 10 | Messala Corvinus, ‘I am ashamed of my authority.’ This fellow,
75 3 | fancy for his character, led aside one of the three Fates and
76 13 | Pompeius and Lupus and Celer Asinius, of consular rank; finally
77 1 | unvarnished truth. If anybody asks me where I got my information,
78 5 | monsters. When he beheld the aspect of this unknown specimen,
79 11 | Scribonia, the Tristionias, and Assario; and they were aristocrats
80 14 | the Cornelian law against assassins. He asked that the court
81 8 | wonder you have made an assault upon the senate-house; nothing
82 8 | Think, you blockhead. At Athens that sort of thing is halfway
83 7(3)| suggested in the various attempts to fill it. ~
84 3 | you wish it, it shall be attended to.” Then she opened a bandbox
85 6 | his freedmen, so little attention did any one pay him.
86 7 | terrifying, he struck the attitude of a tragedian and said: ~ “
87 14 | prosecution with loud shouts. The attorney for the defense wanted to
88 7 | have preferred to clean Augeas’ stables. I have cleaned
89 3 | spindles; one was that of Augurinus, the next was Baba’s, the
90 7 | during the months of July and August. You know how many troubles
91 9 | less also to the divine Augusta, his grandmother, who was
92 4 | or e’en as the Sun,—when Aurora~First has dispelled the
93 2 | away the rich glories of Autumn,~So that the tardy vintager,
94 11 | an ungentlemanly manner, avenge my injuries. This is the
95 4 | men~Weary for laws that await his restoring. Like Lucifer
96 3 | Augurinus, the next was Baba’s, the third Claudius’. “
97 2 | tardy vintager, seeing that Bacchus was aging,~Hastily, here
98 12 | Gay-coated Medes turned their backs to disaster.~Conqueror he
99 9 | at once both forward and backward. He spoke at some length,
100 10 | see, Jupiter, whether in a bad case, and one which is certainly
101 4 | lyre and his praise, as he bade them:~“Stay not your hands,
102 15 | him pursuing,~Constantly baffling his hopes by skipping away
103 3 | attended to.” Then she opened a bandbox and brought out three spindles;
104 14 | 14] He led him to the bar of Aeacus, who conducted
105 8 | temple in Britain; that the barbarians worship him and beseech
106 4 | make him a victor~Over the barriers that limit the common lifetime
107 10 | did I found the city on a basis of law, adorn it with monuments,
108 13 | ran up, all sleek from the bath, and said: “What’s this?
109 13 | or as Horace says, “the beast with the hundred heads.”
110 4 | was winding down in that beautiful fillet.~Ceaselessly they
111 4 | blessed with a grace and a beauty like mine, and in music~
112 8 | of heaven.’ He wants to become a god. Isn’t he satisfied
113 14 | for the defense wanted to begin his reply. Aeacus, most
114 7(3)| Perhaps here Claudius begins the persuasion which proved
115 4 | hearts intent, with his song beguiling their labor.~While beyond
116 14 | dice-box. And already he had begun to search for his constantly
117 11 | Conscript Fathers, if I have behaved myself honorably among you,
118 5 | sort of monsters. When he beheld the aspect of this unknown
119 6 | other divinities he had left behind at Rome. She said, “It is
120 1 | for such good news nobody believed him, he has declared in
121 5 | extraordinary gait, its voice belonging to no earthly creature but
122 10 | discover. All words are beneath my indignation. So in desperation
123 8 | barbarians worship him and beseech him as a god that they may
124 7 | have named you, who know me best. For if you recall, I was
125 4 | with generous hand, and bestowed upon Nero many years from
126 12 | half-fledged poets, now should bewail;~And ye above all, who lately
127 13 | he saw that huge, hairy black dog, which, on my word,
128 4 | lifetime of mortals;~Let him be blessed with a grace and a beauty
129 8 | fact, I ask it. Think, you blockhead. At Athens that sort of
130 9 | the divine Claudius is by blood related to the divine Augustus
131 7 | deal afraid of the madman’s blow. Claudius, seeing the mighty
132 4 | has dispelled the dark and blushingly led forth the morning,—~
133 11 | this man a god? Look at his body, born when the gods were
134 9 | join Romulus in ‘eating of boiling hot-turnips,’ I move that
135 7 | he said with spirit, and boldly enough. All the same, he
136 14 | Petronius came forward, an old boon companion of his, a man
137 3 | be satisfied with these boon-companions.” ~
138 7 | waters go,~Silently laves the borders of its quiet pools.~Is that
139 15 | by way of the hole in the bottom.~Then when he gathered them
140 14 | commanded him to gamble with a bottomless dice-box. And already he
141 2 | Cynthia was widening the bounds of her kingdom;~Ugly-faced
142 12 | steadiest-handed,~Bend back the bow which, driving the foeman~
143 12 | players upon every kind of brass instruments, so great a
144 12 | Than whom no other ever was braver,~Not in the whole world.~
145 7 | hope that you, Hercules, bravest of the gods, would stand
146 7(3)| effective with Hercules. The break which follows in the MSS.,
147 4 | on his spindle neglected,~Breaking off the royal days of his
148 12 | Cretaean.~Smite on your breasts, ye shysters forsaken,~With
149 12 | With hands of despair, O bribe-taking crew;~Ye too, half-fledged
150 12 | Even the dark-blue-shielded Brigantes~Forced he to bend their
151 4 | led forth the morning,—~Brightly gleams on the world and
152 4 | An age of joy shall he bring men~Weary for laws that
153 4 | Ceaselessly they too labored; and bringing the finest of fleeces,~Gayly
154 8 | that he has a temple in Britain; that the barbarians worship
155 7 | day opposite,~Where the broad Rhone pours by in swiftly
156 11 | One person’s leg he has broken, Vulcan’s whom ~ Snatching
157 4 | Crowning the locks on her brow with a wreath of Pierian
158 15 | mountain~Vainly to feel his burden go rolling back from his
159 12 | was being carried off to burial. There was so great a crowd
160 4 | music, their hands spun,~Busily twining a destiny passing
161 10 | no heart to lament public calamities when I behold those of my
162 12 | together and lamenting their calamity, came up and said, “I told
163 4(2)| Camden’s note: This is euphemistic
164 13 | recognize him, across the Campus Martius, and between the
165 6 | as a Gaul ought to do, he captured Rome. Take my word for it,
166 2 | shaking the reins as his car drew nearer the evening,~
167 8 | neither having himself any care nor causing any to others.
168 5 | him. When he looked more carefully, however, it appeared to
169 5 | winds have among the Cicones cast me. ~ But the following
170 13 | the two prefects Justus Catonius and Rufrius Pollio; then
171 8 | having himself any care nor causing any to others. A Stoic?
172 4 | in that beautiful fillet.~Ceaselessly they too labored; and bringing
173 13 | Pedo Pompeius and Lupus and Celer Asinius, of consular rank;
174 13 | Pluto’s door, where lay Cerberus, or as Horace says, “the
175 10 | bad case, and one which is certainly your own, you are going
176 8 | what goes on in his own chamber, and now ‘he searches the
177 4 | admiring gaze of her sisters.~Changed was the common wool, until
178 5 | was easiest for a Greek chap: ~ Who and whence art thou,
179 3 | always had a fancy for his character, led aside one of the three
180 4 | the world and renews his chariot’s journey,~So cometh Caesar;
181 4 | meanwhile, with tresses charmingly ordered,~Crowning the locks
182 12 | rebellious~Parthians scatter, chase with his flying~Missiles
183 12 | dead. For in a mighty great chorus they were chanting a dirge
184 5 | the winds have among the Cicones cast me. ~ But the following
185 2 | the highest point of his circuit,~Wearily shaking the reins
186 12 | shades,~The lord of a hundred cities Cretaean.~Smite on your
187 9 | he was accustomed to sell citizenships in a small way. Hercules
188 10 | this did I make an end of civil wars? For this did I found
189 15 | Caesar appeared and began to claim him as a slave. He produced
190 13 | began to come forward with clapping of hands and chanting: “
191 15 | wanted to throw from his clattering dice-box,~Both of the dice
192 14 | his, a man skilled in the Claudian tongue, and asked for a
193 7 | would have preferred to clean Augeas’ stables. I have
194 7 | Augeas’ stables. I have cleaned out much more filth. But
195 10 | the phrase of that most clever man, Messala Corvinus, ‘
196 4 | fleece white strands which, cleverly fashioned,~Under her artful
197 2 | was between noon and one o’clock. ~ “Too clumsily put!” you
198 8 | senate-house; nothing is closed to you. Only tell us what
199 3 | reign in his place.’” ~ But Clotho remarked, “I swear I intended
200 7 | smitten, down you go!~This club has slaughtered many a mighty
201 2 | and one o’clock. ~ “Too clumsily put!” you will say. “All
202 2 | there, was plucking the clusters forgotten.~ I presume I
203 7 | have the same advantage; a cock is master only on his own
204 4 | artful fingers began with new colors to glisten:—~Spun to a thread
205 4 | his chariot’s journey,~So cometh Caesar; so in his glory
206 4 | moreover, while listening to comic actors, so you understand
207 9 | honor ought not to be given commonly. “Once,” said he, “it was
208 14 | came forward, an old boon companion of his, a man skilled in
209 13 | execution. In the middle of this company of singers was Mnester the
210 4(2)| actual Latin (‘vae me, puto, concacavi me’) should instead be translated
211 10 | disguise my feelings nor conceal the distress that shame
212 12 | instruments, so great a concord, that even Claudius could
213 14 | to the bar of Aeacus, who conducted the trial under the Cornelian
214 12 | their backs to disaster.~Conqueror he of Britons beyond the~
215 4 | hastened the work, nor was conscious of effort;~Lightly the soft
216 11 | finally, if he can say three consecutive words together, he can have
217 9 | had been elected afternoon consul for the first of July, being
218 13 | Lupus and Celer Asinius, of consular rank; finally his brother’
219 14 | some desire, without end or consummation. Then Aeacus commanded him
220 4 | orders ~ With joy and great content to send him out of doors.1 ~
221 9 | corn-land feeds. Whoever contrary to this decree of the Senate
222 8 | as he possibly could he convicted of incest. For he put to
223 14 | conducted the trial under the Cornelian law against assassins. He
224 10 | most clever man, Messala Corvinus, ‘I am ashamed of my authority.’
225 13 | Traulus, M. Helvius, Trogus, Cotta, Vettius Valens, and Fabius,
226 3 | to give up the ghost, but couldn’t find a way out for it.
227 14 | seashore. No one was found as counsel for the accused until at
228 7 | think that you are pretty courageous, you would have preferred
229 13 | him away, with his head covered so that nobody could recognize
230 5 | belonging to no earthly creature but more like that of the
231 12 | lord of a hundred cities Cretaean.~Smite on your breasts,
232 12 | despair, O bribe-taking crew;~Ye too, half-fledged poets,
233 12 | Forum echo with sorrowful cries.~Nobly has fallen a man
234 8 | going to straighten our crooked ways! He doesn’t know what
235 4 | tresses charmingly ordered,~Crowning the locks on her brow with
236 13 | are you talking about, you cruel villain? ‘How?’ did you
237 7 | Or else, by this tough cudgel smitten, down you go!~This
238 10 | Where is this kind of thing customary?
239 13 | already gone ahead by a short cut to be ready to receive his
240 11 | carried. Without delay the Cyllenian dragged him by the nape
241 2 | grow longer;~Now victorious Cynthia was widening the bounds
242 8 | you say, ‘the mice live on dainties.’ He’s going to straighten
243 13 | singers was Mnester the dancer, whom Claudius had made
244 5 | very well, and there is no danger that things which the universal
245 12 | the known sea:~Even the dark-blue-shielded Brigantes~Forced he to bend
246 2 | Phoebus had narrowed the daylight,~Shortening his journey,
247 12 | understood that he was dead. For in a mighty great chorus
248 11 | ceased to follow up the dead-and-gone C. Caesar. The latter had
249 9 | lest my remarks seem to be dealing with personalities rather
250 6 | enough for the one purpose of decapitating people as he was accustomed,
251 15 | through with the same old deception,—~Tiresome as when poor
252 7 | a tragedian and said: ~ “Declare at once the place you call
253 1 | nobody believed him, he has declared in so many words that he’
254 9 | Whoever contrary to this decree of the Senate shall be made,
255 5 | that of the monsters of the deep, hoarse and inarticulate,
256 14 | shouts. The attorney for the defense wanted to begin his reply.
257 11 | resolution was carried. Without delay the Cyllenian dragged him
258 15 | him to Aeacus; the latter delivered him to Menander his freedman,
259 1 | comes to my tongue. Who ever demanded affidavits from an historian?
260 11 | way as soon as possible, departing from heaven within thirty
261 9 | shall be made, called, or depicted as a god, is to be given
262 7(3)| from which they are all derived, would seem to have included
263 13 | way being down hill, the descent was easy. And so, in spite
264 14 | hope of gratifying some desire, without end or consummation.
265 13 | delighted with his praises, and desired to stay longer to look on.
266 12 | forsaken,~With hands of despair, O bribe-taking crew;~Ye
267 10 | beneath my indignation. So in desperation I must take to the phrase
268 4 | hands spun,~Busily twining a destiny passing all human allotment,~
269 14 | arranged, that for him must be devised some vain task and the hope
270 3 | I will have these three die at short intervals within
271 1 | like since the day when he died who had made the proverb
272 9 | be asked his opinion was Diespiter the son of Vica Porta, who
273 2 | his journey, while sleep’s dim hours were left to grow
274 1 | limping along in the same direction. Willy-nilly, he has to
275 12 | chorus they were chanting a dirge in anapests: “Pour forth
276 12 | Medes turned their backs to disaster.~Conqueror he of Britons
277 10 | expressing his opinion, and discoursed with the utmost eloquence. “
278 10 | Conscript Fathers, I cannot discover. All words are beneath my
279 14 | penalty there was a long discussion, as to what would be an
280 10 | business. And I can no longer disguise my feelings nor conceal
281 4 | Sun,—when Aurora~First has dispelled the dark and blushingly
282 12 | most elegant and elaborate display, so that you would easily
283 9 | but now you have made the distinction a farce. And so lest my
284 10 | feelings nor conceal the distress that shame makes all the
285 10 | seem to you as if he could disturb a fly, used to kill people
286 5 | first sight was a good deal disturbed, even though he was one
287 1 | era. I am not going to be diverted by either fear or favor.
288 6 | with him. All the other divinities he had left behind at Rome.
289 11 | within three.” ~ There was a division of the house, and this resolution
290 7 | The triple-bodied king’s domains, whose famous herd~From
291 12 | tremble before the Roman dominion.~Mourn for the man than
292 14 | saying: “Right will be done him if he be treated as
293 13 | in twinkling to Pluto’s door, where lay Cerberus, or
294 4 | content to send him out of doors.1 ~ And indeed he did go
295 2 | the half-spent light on is down-dipping pathway.~
296 11 | Without delay the Cyllenian dragged him by the nape of his neck
297 12 | pale and thin, scarcely drawing breath, like people who
298 12 | Bend back the bow which, driving the foeman~Headlong in flight,
299 7 | herd~From the western sea I drove to the city of Inachus,~
300 7(3)| follows in the MSS., if due, as is supposed, to the
301 14 | silence. Everybody was struck dumb by the novelty of the procedure.
302 7 | is master only on his own dunghill. So, as well as could be
303 7 | your temple all day long during the months of July and August.
304 4 | hands, for sweet was the duty allotted.~She, in her eagerness,
305 | e
306 7 | In face of Phoebus rising each day opposite,~Where the
307 4 | duty allotted.~She, in her eagerness, hastened the work, nor
308 9 | admonitory touch on the ear. Accordingly he expressed
309 5 | What happened afterward on earth it is superfluous to describe.
310 5 | its voice belonging to no earthly creature but more like that
311 2 | hour I cannot tell you—it’s easier to get philosophers to agree
312 5 | him and thus spoke, as was easiest for a Greek chap: ~ Who
313 13 | down hill, the descent was easy. And so, in spite of his
314 9 | from among all those who eat the fruit of the corn-land
315 9 | who can join Romulus in ‘eating of boiling hot-turnips,’
316 12 | woful voices;~Let the Forum echo with sorrowful cries.~Nobly
317 7(3)| persuasion which proved effective with Hercules. The break
318 4 | work, nor was conscious of effort;~Lightly the soft strands
319 4 | features gleam with a gentle effulgence,~Graced by the flowing locks
320 11 | man as like himself as one egg is to another, Scribonia
321 12 | it was a most elegant and elaborate display, so that you would
322 9 | his opinion. He had been elected afternoon consul for the
323 12 | And indeed it was a most elegant and elaborate display, so
324 10 | discoursed with the utmost eloquence. “I call you to witness,
325 4 | when stars return; or e’en as the Sun,—when Aurora~
326 4 | flowing locks that fall encircling his shoulders.”~ Thus Apollo.
327 14 | asked that the court would enter the name, and recorded the
328 10 | to rest. But why should I enumerate the many great men? I have
329 8 | be made. He cannot be an Epicurean god, neither having himself
330 14 | his reply. Aeacus, most equitable of persons, forbade him
331 1 | which began our fortunate era. I am not going to be diverted
332 7 | flood,~And Arar, pausing ere it lets its waters go,~Silently
333 15 | dice-box,~Both of the dice escaped him by way of the hole in
334 14 | search for his constantly escaping dice and to accomplish nothing;
335 4(2)| Camden’s note: This is euphemistic to the point of incomprehensibility.
336 2 | his car drew nearer the evening,~Leading away the half-spent
337 9 | before him, and that this event be added to the Metamorphoses
338 13 | exclaimed: “Plenty of friends, everywhere! How did you come here?”
339 13 | consul-elect, Iuncus the ex-praetor, Sextus Traulus, M. Helvius,
340 2 | October thirteenth; the exact hour I cannot tell you—it’
341 6 | saying, nobody understood, except that he commanded Fever
342 13 | When he had seen them, he exclaimed: “Plenty of friends, everywhere!
343 13 | Narcissus had ordered to execution. In the middle of this company
344 4 | royal days of his stupid existence.~Lachesis, waiting meanwhile,
345 4 | to appear to be alive. He expired, moreover, while listening
346 9 | senate-house it is not permitted to express an opinion nor to argue. “
347 10 | Augustus arose at the point for expressing his opinion, and discoursed
348 5 | this unknown specimen, its extraordinary gait, its voice belonging
349 13 | Cotta, Vettius Valens, and Fabius, Roman knights whom Narcissus
350 7 | rivers, towering high~In face of Phoebus rising each day
351 4 | by the flowing locks that fall encircling his shoulders.”~
352 6 | to punishment. With the familiar gesture of his limp hand,
353 10 | I behold those of my own family. And so I will pass over
354 7 | triple-bodied king’s domains, whose famous herd~From the western sea
355 3 | Mercury, who had always had a fancy for his character, led aside
356 9 | have made the distinction a farce. And so lest my remarks
357 4 | strands which, cleverly fashioned,~Under her artful fingers
358 4 | Stay not your hands, O Fateful Sisters, but make him a
359 3 | led aside one of the three Fates and said: “Why, O hard-hearted
360 9 | individual had been sent out, Father Janus was the first to be
361 4 | Nero.~Thus do his radiant features gleam with a gentle effulgence,~
362 9 | whom the fruitful corn-land feeds. Whoever contrary to this
363 15 | of his mountain~Vainly to feel his burden go rolling back
364 10 | can no longer disguise my feelings nor conceal the distress
365 4 | Lightly the soft strands fell from the whirling point
366 8 | this favor of Saturn, whose festival month the Saturnalian prince
367 12 | bend their necks to the fetters~That Romulus forged, and
368 7(3)| the various attempts to fill it. ~
369 4 | finest of fleeces,~Gayly they filled her hands, for sweet was
370 4 | winding down in that beautiful fillet.~Ceaselessly they too labored;
371 7 | have cleaned out much more filth. But since I want”— 3 ~
372 4 | labored; and bringing the finest of fleeces,~Gayly they filled
373 9 | that his iron was in the fire, kept running to this one
374 6 | At this point Claudius fired up and angrily grumbled
375 15 | with rods, and with his fists. The man was adjudged to
376 4 | laurel,~Drew from a snowy fleece white strands which, cleverly
377 4 | and bringing the finest of fleeces,~Gayly they filled her hands,
378 7 | pours by in swiftly moving flood,~And Arar, pausing ere it
379 4 | effulgence,~Graced by the flowing locks that fall encircling
380 9 | spoke at some length, and fluently, because he lives in the
381 4 | indeed he did go up the flume, and from that moment ceased
382 10 | as if he could disturb a fly, used to kill people as
383 12 | scatter, chase with his flying~Missiles the Persian, steadiest-handed,~
384 12 | the bow which, driving the foeman~Headlong in flight, should
385 4 | who herself, too, had a fondness for the handsomest of men,
386 1 | must be born either king or fool. If I please to answer,
387 12 | dark-blue-shielded Brigantes~Forced he to bend their necks to
388 3 | good thing to have a few foreigners left as a nucleus, and since
389 12 | Saturnalia wouldn’t last forever.” Claudius, when he saw
390 12 | the fetters~That Romulus forged, and Ocean himself~To tremble
391 5 | will slip from it; no one forgets his own good fortune. Listen
392 7 | seeing the mighty hero, forgot his nonsense and perceived
393 2 | was plucking the clusters forgotten.~ I presume I shall be better
394 10 | so I will pass over the former and describe these. For
395 13 | fact all his relatives; and forming in line they came to meet
396 12 | your breasts, ye shysters forsaken,~With hands of despair,
397 1 | new year which began our fortunate era. I am not going to be
398 5 | one forgets his own good fortune. Listen to what happened
399 11 | s father-in-law Crassus Frugi, a man as like himself as
400 9 | among all those who eat the fruit of the corn-land or those
401 9 | corn-land or those whom the fruitful corn-land feeds. Whoever
402 12 | were able~To gather great gains by shaking the dice-box.”~
403 5 | specimen, its extraordinary gait, its voice belonging to
404 11 | his son-in-law besides. Gaius forbade the sons of Crassus
405 14 | Aeacus commanded him to gamble with a bottomless dice-box.
406 7(3)| to have included in the gap more incidents than have
407 12 | who lately were able~To gather great gains by shaking the
408 3 | to see everybody, Greeks, Gauls, Spaniards, Britons, wearing
409 12 | should pierce him afar, while~Gay-coated Medes turned their backs
410 4 | bringing the finest of fleeces,~Gayly they filled her hands, for
411 4 | thread that drew the admiring gaze of her sisters.~Changed
412 4 | handsomest of men, wrought with generous hand, and bestowed upon
413 4 | radiant features gleam with a gentle effulgence,~Graced by the
414 6 | sixteen miles from Vienna, a genuine Gaul. And so as a Gaul ought
415 6 | punishment. With the familiar gesture of his limp hand, that was
416 3 | Claudius began to give up the ghost, but couldn’t find a way
417 4 | music~Grant him no meaner gifts. An age of joy shall he
418 8 | sister, prettiest of all the girls, so that everybody called
419 6 | simple nonsense that he is giving you. I tell you—I who have
420 9 | thrashing among the newly hired gladiators at the next show.” ~ The
421 4 | do his radiant features gleam with a gentle effulgence,~
422 4 | forth the morning,—~Brightly gleams on the world and renews
423 4 | began with new colors to glisten:—~Spun to a thread that
424 2 | snatching away the rich glories of Autumn,~So that the tardy
425 4 | cometh Caesar; so in his glory shall Rome behold Nero.~
426 7 | to a place where the mice gnaw iron. Tell me the truth,
427 9 | grandmother, who was made a goddess by his own orders, and whereas
428 8 | ways! He doesn’t know what goes on in his own chamber, and
429 4 | as a metal most precious,~Golden the age that was winding
430 13 | freedman Narcissus had already gone ahead by a short cut to
431 13 | And so, in spite of his gout, he came in twinkling to
432 4 | Let him be blessed with a grace and a beauty like mine,
433 4 | with a gentle effulgence,~Graced by the flowing locks that
434 9 | the divine Augusta, his grandmother, who was made a goddess
435 4 | like mine, and in music~Grant him no meaner gifts. An
436 14 | vain task and the hope of gratifying some desire, without end
437 10 | many years, has shown his gratitude to me by slaying the two
438 5 | a rather tall man, quite gray-headed; that he was threatening
439 10 | slaying the two Julias, my great-granddaughters, one by the sword, the other
440 10 | and L. Silanus, one of my great-great-grandsons. We shall see, Jupiter,
441 11 | to whom I was as much a great-uncle as I was to you. ‘I don’
442 10 | that shame makes all the greater. Was it for this that I
443 3 | his mind to see everybody, Greeks, Gauls, Spaniards, Britons,
444 12 | were weeping, but their grief was plainly heartfelt. The
445 2 | s dim hours were left to grow longer;~Now victorious Cynthia
446 3 | afflicted with life. What grudge have you got against him
447 6 | Claudius fired up and angrily grumbled as loudly as he could. What
448 6 | would have imposed upon the guileless Hercules, had not Fever
449 13 | pet—when he saw that huge, hairy black dog, which, on my
450 12 | bribe-taking crew;~Ye too, half-fledged poets, now should bewail;~
451 2 | evening,~Leading away the half-spent light on is down-dipping
452 8 | Athens that sort of thing is halfway allowed; at Alexandria altogether. ‘
453 4 | had a fondness for the handsomest of men, wrought with generous
454 1 | has to see everything that happens in heaven; for he is the
455 4 | came with his singing, and, happy in anticipation,~Joyously
456 11 | you say? May the gods be hard on you! It is more shameful
457 3 | Fates and said: “Why, O hard-hearted woman, do you let the wretched
458 13 | freedmen Polybius, Myron, Harpocras, Amphaeus, and Pheronactus,
459 4 | She, in her eagerness, hastened the work, nor was conscious
460 2 | that Bacchus was aging,~Hastily, here and there, was plucking
461 12 | which, driving the foeman~Headlong in flight, should pierce
462 12 | that even Claudius could hear it. Everybody was joyful
463 12 | their grief was plainly heartfelt. The real lawyers were coming
464 4 | the spinners:~Kept their hearts intent, with his song beguiling
465 11 | foot, he hurled from the heavenly threshold; ~ and he got
466 1 | man who saw Drusilla going heavenward; he will say he saw Claudius
467 7 | recall, I was the one who held court before your temple
468 1 | positively and plainly, so help him! ~
469 13 | ex-praetor, Sextus Traulus, M. Helvius, Trogus, Cotta, Vettius
470 5 | himself to be Caesar, said: ~ Hence from Ilium the winds have
471 7 | s domains, whose famous herd~From the western sea I drove
472 7 | Claudius, seeing the mighty hero, forgot his nonsense and
473 4 | Apollo. But Lachesis, who herself, too, had a fondness for
474 4 | stars to flight, or like Hesper at nightfall,~Rising when
475 10 | fellow whom you see there, hiding under my name for so many
476 12 | were coming out of their hiding-places, pale and thin, scarcely
477 2 | Phoebus already had passed the highest point of his circuit,~Wearily
478 9 | thrashing among the newly hired gladiators at the next show.” ~
479 1 | demanded affidavits from an historian? Still, if I must produce
480 5 | would be some place for his histories. So he, too, in a Homeric
481 5 | the monsters of the deep, hoarse and inarticulate, he thought
482 9 | god, is to be given to the hobgoblins, and to get a thrashing
483 15 | escaped him by way of the hole in the bottom.~Then when
484 9 | the gods, and that this honor ought not to be given commonly. “
485 11 | if I have behaved myself honorably among you, if I have not
486 15 | Constantly baffling his hopes by skipping away through
487 5 | find literary people there, hoping there would be some place
488 13 | where lay Cerberus, or as Horace says, “the beast with the
489 12 | great a crowd of trumpeters, hornblowers, and players upon every
490 9 | Romulus in ‘eating of boiling hot-turnips,’ I move that from this
491 2 | journey, while sleep’s dim hours were left to grow longer;~
492 11 | There was a division of the house, and this resolution was
493 11 | his head. He killed in one household Crassus, Magnus, Scribonia,
494 13 | as a pet—when he saw that huge, hairy black dog, which,
495 4 | twining a destiny passing all human allotment,~Wrought through
496 11 | got angry at his wide and hung her up, but he didn’t kill
497 11 | Snatching him by the foot, he hurled from the heavenly threshold; ~
498 13 | this? Gods, among men?” “Hurry up,” said Mercury, “and
499 4 | Oh, dear! I think I have hurt2 myself.” Whether he had,
500 4 | rate he was in the habit of hurting everything. ~
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