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adulterer Alcibiades altar anger Archigenes arms AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS beard Behold belly blood breast broken burning Cęsar carried Catullus Ceres Cimbri command Cornutus countenance crime cruel cups Cybele dare deity despise dish eyes Falernan fate father fear feast fortune frankincense Gabii give gods gown greater hasten hath head hear heaven helmet Hence Hippia hired husband Jove Jupiter Juvenal labor laws lest Liburnian Lictor live Macrinus manners master Medes mind miserable naked neck Nero night noble old age Pacuvius pale Persius poet prętor praise Psecas punishment Quintilian rejoice rich Romans Rome sacred Satire SATIRE IV SATIRE VI SATIRES OF JUVENAL secret Sejanus servants sestertia slave sleep suffice supper sword temple thee thence things thro trembling verses vice Virro whence whole wickedness wife wine wish woman worthy wretch youth
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Page 5 - Poets, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius, may contribute wonderfully to give a man a detestation of vice, and a contempt of the common methods of mankind; which they have set out in such true colours, that they must give a very generous sense to those who delight in reading them often. Persius his second satyr may well pass for one of the best lectures in divinity.