Terence's Andrian, a comedy, in five acts : $b Translated into English prose, with critical and explanatory notes.Terence
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Terence's Andrian, a comedy, in five acts : $b Translated into English prose, with critical and explanatory notes.
Terence
Latin drama (Comedy) -- Translations into English; Terence -- Translations into English
IV. From _Pliny_.
Cum sciam, Domine, ad testimonium laudemque morum meorum, _p_ertinere
tam boni _p_rinci_p_is judicio exornari, rogo, dignitati, ad quam me
_p_rovexit indulgentia tua, vel auguratum, vel septemviratum, quia
vacant, adjicere digneris: ut jure sacerdotii _p_recari deos _p_ro te
_p_ublicè _p_ossim, quos nunc _p_recor _p_ietate _p_rivatâ.
V. From _Horace_.
Acriter el_a_trem, pretium _æ_t_a_s _a_lter_a_ sordet.
Ambigitur.
VI. From _Ovid_.
Se cu_p_it im_p_rudens. Et qui _p_robat i_p_se _p_robatur.
Dumque _p_etit, _p_etitur; _p_ariterque.
VII. From _Plutarch_.
Κόσμος ἐστιν ὡς ἔλεγε Κράτης, τὸ Κοσμοῦν. Κοσμεῖ δὲ τὸ Κοσμιώτερον.
VIII. From _Tyrtæus_.
Ἡ δ’ Ἀρετὴ τόδ’ Ἄεθλον ἐν Ἀνθρώποισιν Ἄριστον.
IX. From _Æschines_.
Οἱ Ἐξ Ἐκείνου Ἔχοντες Ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ.
ΤαῦΤα μὲν οὖν μοι δοκῶ καὶ Τἄλλα Τὰ ΤούΤοις.
Ἔοικε, Φειδίας Ἐνεργολαβεῖν Εἰργάσατο καὶ Ἐνεπιορκεῖν.
X. From _Anacreon_.
Τί Μοι, τί Μοι γόων,
Τί Μοι Μέλει Μεριμνῶν.
Μέσον, ναῒ
ΦορήΜεθα σὺν Μελαίνᾳ,
ΧειΜῶνι Μοχθεῦντες Μεγάλῳ.
NOTE 98.
_However, I’ll bring her._
Mr. Cooke makes this speech come from Archillis, and writes it thus:
_Tamen eam adduce_, _I say, fetch her_. This reading is taken from
Guyetus: but Dr. Bentley objects to Archillis within calling to Mysis
without. But as Mysis uses the expression _importunitatem_ SPECTATE
_aniculæ_, _see_ the old woman’s importunity, and not _audite_
importunitatem, _hear_, &c.: we must suppose Archillis to show her
impatience by gestures, as she stood at the door of Glycera’s house.
NOTE 99.
_Mark, how importunate this old baggage is._
Importunitatem spectate _aniculæ_. _Anicula_ is a word of singular
derivation, and signifies literally a sorceress; being compounded of
two Latin words, one signifying _an old woman_, and the other _to
howl_: because sorceresses always _howled_ when they made their
incantations. We must not suppose that Mysis here meant to call
Archillis a sorceress, but merely used the word above mentioned as a
term of reproach. According to Antonius Magnus, the _aniculæ_ were
not a little mischievous, as he proposes to shew by the following
quotation: “Retulit Leonardus Varius, lib. I. de Fascino, multas
hac nostra tempestate existere _aniculas_, quarum impuritate non
paucos effascinari pueros, illosque non modo in gravissimum incidere
discrimen, verum atque acerbam sæpissime subire mortem. Pecudes insuper
partu, et lacte privari, equos macrescere, et emori, segetes absque
fructu colligi, arbores arescere, ac denique omnia pessum iri quandoque
videri.”――ANTONIUS MAGNUS. Perscrutator rerum abditarum naturæ.
Norimberga, 1681, p. 39.
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