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Page 108
... simile is a comparison of the thoughts of Aeneas , turning this way and that , to the light reflected off water , flitting back and forth within a closed space . " The light itself , however , is caused by sun and moon , by outside ...
... simile is a comparison of the thoughts of Aeneas , turning this way and that , to the light reflected off water , flitting back and forth within a closed space . " The light itself , however , is caused by sun and moon , by outside ...
Page 216
... simile seems equally to lead to Bk . VI . The many parallels between Bks . V and XII ( e.g. , V , 230 , and XII , 49 ; V , 456 , and XII , 501 ; V , 458 , and XII , 553 ) deserve separate elaboration . 23. We might also note that ...
... simile seems equally to lead to Bk . VI . The many parallels between Bks . V and XII ( e.g. , V , 230 , and XII , 49 ; V , 456 , and XII , 501 ; V , 458 , and XII , 553 ) deserve separate elaboration . 23. We might also note that ...
Page 227
... simile , the umida stagna ( lines 476-77 ) , comes directly from the virentia stagna of G. IV , 18 . 12. The simile seems to typify a latent irony in much of the book's imagery by which metaphors ordinarily associated with violent , but ...
... simile , the umida stagna ( lines 476-77 ) , comes directly from the virentia stagna of G. IV , 18 . 12. The simile seems to typify a latent irony in much of the book's imagery by which metaphors ordinarily associated with violent , but ...
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Aeneas Aeneid Aeolus Amata Anchises appears atque belly Book VIII Book XII book's bough Cacus CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ calm cave clash Creusa CRUZ The University dark death destiny destruction Dido Dido's doom epic episode escape Evander Evander's fate final fire flames force Furor future Georgic glides golden bough Greeks Gyas Hercules hero imagery initial journey Juno Juturna land Laocoön Latinus Latium Lavinia looks Lucretius madness Menoetes metaphor Mnestheus Neptune Nisus and Euryalus Odysseus offer omen once opening lines Orpheus Palinurus Pallas parallels past pastoral pattern phrase poet poet's Priam Pyrrhus race rage recall Rome Rutulian sacrifice SANTA CRUZ seems Sergestus ships shore Sibyl simile Sinon sleep snakes Somnus symbolic Tenedos Tiber tion Trojans Troy Troy's turn Turnus underworld University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA Venus verb violence Virgil Vulcan winds wooden horse words wound wrath