Word: tacitus
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...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Some Disputed Points in the Life of Menander," Mr. W. E. Clark; "Some Manuscripts of Aristophanes," Professor J. W. White; "A Harvard Manuscript of Ovid, Palladius, and Tacitus," Dr. E. K. Rand. Sever...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE."Some Dis- puted Points in the Life of Menander," Mr. W. E. Clark; "Some Manuscript of Aristophanes," Professor J. W. White; "A Harvard Manuscript of Ovid, Palladius, and Tacitus," Dr. E. K. Rand. Sever...
...them as different from ourselves, nay, as superior to us. It was simply that they were used to better society and have the air of the great world, of the world, that is, which makes fashions and is not made by them. They opened their Homer, their Sophocles, their Tacitus, their Horace, where we take up our newspaper or our novel. What an old Gascon prig would Montaigne have been but for the ancients, especially Plutarch. Yet his library did not swamp him, and though his essays are pockmarked all over with quotations, his temper is essentially modern, indeed...
...most commonly the case that a translator does not so much convert an author into his own language as into himself. How utterly unlike their originals are Pope's Homer, and Hoole's Tasso, Murphy's Tacitus and Francis's Horace? The greater the author, the more he suffers, because power of expression is always a chief part of the outfit of a great author. Certain phrases may be translated, like the famous: "They make a solitude and call it peace" of Tacitus, but who ever saw a satisfactory version of the concluding paragraphs of the Life of Agricola...
...been crucified by Pontius Pilate. Pliny had executed all men who said that they were Christians, but he was in great doubt as to what to do with those who had been Christians and then had repented of their folly. Other passages relative to the Christians are found in Tacitus, describing the persecutions of Nero; in Suetonius, and in Lucian. The latter speaks of their devotion to each other, and explains how any sharper might easily set himself up as a prophet and receive no small income from the contributions of these poor fanatics. He tells a story of Peregrimes...