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See also:LUCIFER (the Latinized See also:form of Gr. 4scwo'4 bpos, " See also:light-See also:bearer ")
, the name given to the " See also:morning See also:star," i.e. the See also:planet See also:Venus when it appears above the E. See also:horizon, before sunrise, and sometimes also to the " evening star," i.e. the same planet in the W. See also:sky after sundown, more usually called See also:Hesperus (q.v.)
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The See also:term " See also:day star " (so rendered in the Revised Version) was used poetically by See also:Isaiah for the See also: Even his frequent use of Greek words, phrases and quotations, reprehended by See also:Horace, was probably taken from the actual practice of men, who found their own speech as yet inadequate to give See also:free expression to the new ideas and impressions which they derived from their first contact with Greek .See also:philosophy, See also:rhetoric and poetry . Further, he not only created a style of his own, but, instead of taking the substance of his writings from Greek poetry, or from a remote past, he treated of the familiar matters of daily See also:life, of the politics, the See also:wars, the See also:administration of See also:justice, the eating and drinking, the See also:money-making and money-spending, the scandals and vices, which made up the public and private life of See also:Rome in the last See also:quarter of the 2nd See also:century B.C . This he did in a singularly See also:frank, See also:independent and courageous spirit, with no private ambition to serve, or party cause to advance, but with an honest See also:desire to expose the iniquity or incompetence of the governing See also:body, the sordid aims of the See also:middle class, and the corruption and venality of the See also:city See also:mob . There was nothing of stoical austerity or of rhetorical indignation in the See also:tone in which he treated the vices and follies of his See also:time . His See also:character and tastes were much more akin to those of Horace than of either See also:Persius or See also:Juvenal . But he was what Horace was not, a thoroughly See also:good hater; and he lived at a time when the utmost freedom of speech and the most unrestrained See also:indulgence of public and private animosity were the characteristics of men who took a prominent See also:part in affairs . Although Lucilius took no active part in the public life of his time, he regarded it in the spirit of a See also:man of the See also:world and of society, as well as a man of letters . His ideal of public virtue and private See also:worth had been formed by intimate association with the greatest and best of the soldiers and statesmen of an older See also:generation . See also:literary expression in See also:Milton's See also:Paradise Lost . |
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