ellauri058.html on line 851: Suetonius ja Kustaa III.
ellauri058.html on line 933: Totta hemmetissä tiesi. Oli lukenut Suetoniusta ja Gedaran Meleagrosta.
ellauri141.html on line 113: In B. C. 17, Augustus celebrated the Ludi Seculares, and Horace was required to write an Ode for the occasion, which he did, and it has been preserved. This circumstance, and the credit it brought him, may have given his mind another leaning to Ode-writing, and have helped him to produce the fourth book, a few pieces in which may have been written at any time. It is said that Augustus particularly desired Horace to publish another book of Odes, in order that those he wrote upon the victories of Drusus and Tiberius (4 and 14) might appear in it. The latter of these Odes was not written, probably, till B. C. 13, when Augustus returned from Gaul. If so, the book was probably published in that year, when Horace was fifty-two. The Odes of the fourth book show no diminution of power, but the reverse. There are none in the first three books that surpass, or perhaps equal, the Ode in honor of Drusus, and few superior to that which is addressed to Lollius. The success of the first three books, and the honor of being chosen to compose the Ode at the Ludi Seculares, seem to have given him encouragement. There are no incidents in his life during the above period recorded or alluded to in his poems. He lived five years after the publication of the fourth book of Odes, if the above date be correct, and during that time, I think it probable, he wrote the Epistles to Augustus and Florus which form the second book; and having conceived the intention of writing a poem on the art and progress of poetry, he wrote as much of it as appears in the Epistle to the Pisones which has been preserved among his works. It seems, from the Epistle to Florus, that Horace at this time had to resist the urgency of friends begging him to write, one in this style and another in that, and that he had no desire to gratify them and to sacrifice his own ease to a pursuit in which it is plain he never took any great delight. He was likely to bring to it less energy as his life was drawing prematurely to a close, through infirmities either contracted or aggravated during his irrational campaigning with Brutus, his inaptitude for which he appears afterwards to have been perfectly aware of. He continued to apply himself to the study of moral philosophy till his death, which took place, according to Eusebius, on the 27th of November, B. C. 8, in the fifty-seventh year of his age, and within a few days of its completion. Mæcenas died the same year, also towards the close of it; a coincidence that has led some to the notion, that Horace hastened his own death that he might not have the pain of surviving his patron. According to Suetonius, his death (which he places after his fifty-ninth year) was so sudden, that he had not time to execute his will, which is opposed to the notion of suicide. The two friends were buried near one another “in extremis Esquiliis,” in the farthest part of the Esquiliæ, that is, probably, without the city walls, on the ground drained and laid out in gardens by Mæcenas.
ellauri141.html on line 209: The obscene qualities of some of the Epodes have repulsed even scholars. Suetonius recorded some gossip about Horace's sexual activities late in life, involving mirrors. William Thackeray produced a version of Odes 1.38 in which Horace's questionable 'boy' became 'Lucy', and Gerard Manley Hopkins translated the boy "innocently" as 'child'. Horace was translated by Sir Theodore Martin (biographer of Prince Albert) but minus some ungentlemanly verses, such as the erotic Odes 1.25 and Epodes 8 and 12. Translators historically excluded the problem poems 8 and 12, but also the far less obscene but explicitly gay 11. Philip Francis (1746) and Bulwer Lytton (1870) omit the problem poems from their translations. Niin teki myös Eero Kivikari. Suuhun myös peräpäähän teitä pukkaan. Irrumabo ego vos et pedicabo. Quos ego!
ellauri214.html on line 701: Izydor lainasi vain sellaisia kirjoja, joissa oli Felix-sedän Fenix, siitä tuli hyvän kirjan merkki. Pian hän kuitenkin huomasi, että koko kirjakokoelma alkoi vasta kirjaimesta L. Yhdeltäkään hyllyitä ei löytynyt kirjailijoita, joiden sukunimi olisi alka nut An ja Kn väliltä. Niinpä hän luki Laotsea, Leniniä, Leibnitzia, Loyolaa, Lukianosta, Martialista, Marxia, Meyrinkia, Mickiewiczia, Nietzscheä, Origenesta, Paracelsusta, Parmenidesta, Porfyriosta, Platonia, Plotinosta, Poeta, Proustia, Quevedoa, Rousseauta, Schilleria, Słowackia, Spenceria, Spinozaa, Suetoniusta, Shakespearea, Swedenborgia, Sienkiewiczia, Towiańskia, Tokarczukia, Tacitusta, Tertullianusta, Tuomas Akvinolaista, Verneä, Vergiliusta ja Voltairea.
ellauri323.html on line 129: Zuleika was the smiling target of all snap-shooters, and all the snap-shots were snapped up by the press and reproduced with annotations: Zuleika Dobson walking on Broadway in the sables gifted her by Grand Duke Salamander—she says “You can bounce blizzards in them”; Zuleika Dobson yawning over a love-letter from millionaire Edelweiss; relishing a cup of clam-broth—she says “They don’t use clams out there”; ordering her maid to fix her a warm bath; finding a split in the gloves she has just drawn on before starting for the musicale given in her honour by Mrs. Suetonius X. Meistersinger, the most exclusive woman in New York; chatting at the telephone to Miss Camille Van Spook, the best-born girl in New York; laughing over the recollection of a compliment made her by George Abimelech Post, the best-groomed man in New York; meditating a new trick; admonishing a waiter who has upset a cocktail over her skirt; having herself manicured; drinking tea in bed. Thus was Zuleika enabled daily to be, as one might say, a spectator of her own wonderful life. On her departure from New York, the papers spoke no more than the truth when they said she had had “a lovely time.”
ellauri353.html on line 364: Pirozhkovan mukaan "Ennen kuin tapasin Baabelin, luin paljon, tosin ilman erityistä ohjausta. Luin kaiken, minkä sain käsiini. Babel huomasi tämän ja sanoi minulle: "Sillä tavalla lukeminen ei johda mihinkään. on aikaa lukea kirjoja, jotka ovat todella arvokkaita. Jokaisen koulutetun ihmisen on luettava noin sata kirjaa. Yritän joskus tehdä niistä luettelon." Ja muutama päivä myöhemmin hän toi minulle luettelon, jossa oli antiikin kirjailijoita, kreikkalaisia ja roomalaisia - Homeros, Herodotos, Lucretius, Suetonius - ja myös kaikki myöhemmän eurooppalaisen kirjallisuuden klassikot, alkaen Erasmuksesta, Rabelais´sta, Cervantesista, Swiftistä, ja Coster (n.h.), ja jatkuu 1800-luvun kirjailijoihin, kuten Stendhaliin, Mériméeen ja Flaubertiin." Punaisen ratsuväen kauhistuttavaan väkivaltaan näytti jyrkästi vastakohtaiselta itse Baabelin lempeä luonne.
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