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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...that 10. 22, 'Nempe inter varias nutri I might issue from the threshold of tur sylva columnas.' The wealthy a mansion of marble.' Romans used to have small gardens G Quidve in Erythraeo legitur quae litore concha Tinctaque Sidonio murice lana iuvat, Et quae praeterea populus miratur? In illis Invidia est: falso plurima vulgus amat. 20 Non opibus mentes hominum curaeque levantur: Nam Fortuna sua tempora lege regit. Sit mihi paupertas tecum iucunda, Neaera: At sine te regum munera nulla volo. O niveam, quae te poterit mihi reddere, lucem! 25 O mihi felicem terque quaterque diem! At si, pro dulci reditu quaecunque voventur, Audiat aversa non meus aure deus, Nee me regna iuvant nee Lydius aurifer amnis Nee quas terrarum sustinet orbis opes. 30 Haec alii cupiant, liceat mihi paupere cultu Securo cara coniuge posse frui. Adsis et timidis faveas, Satumia, votis, Et faveas concha, Cypria, vecta tua. Aut si fata negant reditum tristesque sorores, 35 Stamina quae ducunt quaeque futura neunt, Me vocet in vastos amnes nigramque paludem Dives in ignava luridus Orcus aqua. IV. Dii meliora ferant, nee sint insomnia vera, Quae tulit hesterna pessima nocte quies. and shrubberies in their courtyards, 29. Lydius aurifer amnis The as may still be seen on the continent. Pactolus. 17. concha The pear, as above, 31. paupere cultu Cf. supr. i. ii. 4. 30. 10. 19. 20. /also 'Erroneously.' 34. concha, &c. Venus was re 23. Sit Would be.' presented as rising from the sea 25. niveam 'Vulgo candidam and traversing it on a shell. dicunt. Insolens usus.' Dissen. Old 38. Dives Pluto was supposed to Russian poems always designate the be the possessor of all subterranean Emperor 'the white Czar. A. H. treasure.--luridus. This is much W.J the same as pallidus or Hindus, ...