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Lucasta (Volume 2); Poems Addressed or Relating to Lucasta. Miscellaneous Poems. Commendatory Verses, Prefixed to Various Publications Between 1652 and 1657 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921. Excerpt: ... TRANSLATIONS w SANAZARI HEXASTICON VIDERAT Adriacis quondam Neptunus in undis Stare urbem et toto ponere Jura mari: Nunc mini Tarpeias quantumvis, Jupiter, Arces Objice et illa mihi mcenia Martis, ait, Seu pelago Tibrim praefers, urbem aspice utramque, Illam homines dices, hanc posuisse deos. Sanazar's Hexastick In Adriatick waves when Neptune saw, The city stand, and give the seas a law: Now i' th' Tarpeian tow'rs Jove rival me, And Mars his walls impregnable, said he; Let seas to Tyber yield; view both their ods! You'l grant that built by men, but this by gods. IN VIRGILIUM. PENTADII PASTO R, arator, eques; pavi, colui, superavi; Capras, rus, hostes; fronde, ligone, manu. IN ENGLISH A Swain, hind, knight: I fed, till'd, did command: Goats, fields, my foes: with leaves, a spade, my hand. DE SCyEVOLA LICTOREM pro rege necans nunc mutiiis ultro J Sacrifico propriam concremat igne manum: Miratur Porsenna virum, paenamque relaxans Maxima cum obscessis faedera a victor init, Plus flammis patriae confert quam fortibus armis, Una domans bellum funere dextra sui. ENGLISHED The hand, by which no king but Serjeant dies, Mutius in fire doth freely sacrifice; The prince admires the Hero, quits his pains, And Victor from the seige peace entertains; Rome's more oblig'd to flames than arms or pow'r, When one burnt hand shall the whole war devour. DE CATONE INVICTUS victis in partibus omnia Caesar Vincere qui potuit, te, Cato, non potuit. OF CATO The world orecome, victorious Caesar, he That conquer'd all, great Cato, could not thee. ITEM ICTU non potuit primo Cato solvere vitamj Defecit tanto vulnere victa manus: Altius inseruit digitos, qua spiritus ingens Exiret, magnum dextera fecit iter. Opposuit fortuna moram, involvitque, Catonis Scires ut ferro plus valuisse man...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217845053
- ISBN 13 9780217845052
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages28
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