FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   162  
163   164   165   166   167   168   169   170   171   172   173   >>  
sse, sed Hionios. LXXXIIII. ON ARRIUS, A ROMAN 'ARRY. Wont is Arrius say "Chommodious" whenas "commodious" Means he, and "Insidious" aspirate "Hinsidious," What time flattering self he speaks with marvellous purity, Clamouring "Hinsidious" loudly as ever he can. Deem I thus did his dame and thus-wise Liber his uncle 5 Speak, and on spindle-side grandsire and grandmother too. Restful reposed all ears when he was sent into Syria, Hearing the self-same words softly and smoothly pronounced, Nor any feared to hear such harshness uttered thereafter, Whenas a sudden came message of horrible news, 10 Namely th' Ionian waves when Arrius thither had wended, Were "Ionian" no more--they had "Hionian" become. _Chommodious_ did Arrius say, whenever he had need to say commodious, and for insidious _hinsidious_, and felt confident he spoke with accent wondrous fine, when aspirating _hinsidious_ to the full of his lungs. I understand that his mother, his uncle Liber, his maternal grand-parents all spoke thus. He being sent into Syria, everyone's ears were rested, hearing these words spoken smoothly and slightly, nor after that did folk fear such words from him, when on a sudden is brought the nauseous news that th' Ionian waves, after Arrius' arrival thither, no longer are Ionian hight, but are now the _Hionian Hocean_. LXXXV. Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. LXXXV. HOW THE POET LOVES. Hate I, and love I. Haps thou'lt ask me wherefore I do so. Wot I not, yet so I do feeling a torture of pain. I hate and I love. Wherefore do I so, peradventure thou askest. I know not, but I feel it to be thus and I suffer. LXXXVI. Quintia formosast multis, mihi candida, longa, Rectast. haec ego sic singula confiteor, Totum illud formosa nego: nam nulla venustas, Nulla in tam magnost corpore mica salis. Lesbia formosast, quae cum pulcherrima totast, 5 Tum omnibus una omnes surripuit Veneres. LXXXVI. OF QUINTIA. Quintia beautiful seems to the crowd; to me, fair, and tall, Straight; and merits as these readily thus I confess, But that she is beauteous all I deny, for nothing of lovesome, Never a grain of salt, shows in her person so large. Lesbia beautiful seems, and when all over she's fairest, 5 Any Venus-gift stole she from every one.
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   162  
163   164   165   166   167   168   169   170   171   172   173   >>  



Top keywords:

Ionian

 

Arrius

 
sudden
 

formosast

 
beautiful
 

smoothly

 
Quintia
 

Lesbia

 

thither

 
Hionian

hinsidious

 

LXXXVI

 
Hinsidious
 

Chommodious

 

commodious

 

candida

 

multis

 

venustas

 

ARRIUS

 
Rectast

singula

 
confiteor
 

formosa

 

wherefore

 

whenas

 

feeling

 

askest

 

peradventure

 

torture

 

Wherefore


suffer

 

corpore

 

lovesome

 
beauteous
 
readily
 

confess

 

person

 

fairest

 

merits

 

Straight


pulcherrima
 

totast

 

LXXXIIII

 

magnost

 

omnibus

 
Hionios
 

QUINTIA

 

surripuit

 

Veneres

 

sentio