An Anonymous Epistle of Dido to Aeneas (Anthologia Latina 83)Ethel Leigh Chubb University of Pennsylvania, 1920 - 57 pages |
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... sense it is nothing more than a rhetorical exercise , a comparison with the dictiones referred to above shows that it is of much greater length than they , and much more original in its treatment of the subject chosen . The poet ...
... sense it is nothing more than a rhetorical exercise , a comparison with the dictiones referred to above shows that it is of much greater length than they , and much more original in its treatment of the subject chosen . The poet ...
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... sense , and should therefore be retained . The diffi- culty is in pendet . Wernsdorf explains it as equivalent to in ruinam pen- det , pessum data est . This is not an unnatural extension of the usual meaning of the word , and is ...
... sense , and should therefore be retained . The diffi- culty is in pendet . Wernsdorf explains it as equivalent to in ruinam pen- det , pessum data est . This is not an unnatural extension of the usual meaning of the word , and is ...
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... sense , meaning merely " turned aside . " iter : accusative of inner object . male : owing to the trembling of her fingers . apex : the Thesaurus gives no instance of the use of apex to mean pen . The word , however , indicates any ...
... sense , meaning merely " turned aside . " iter : accusative of inner object . male : owing to the trembling of her fingers . apex : the Thesaurus gives no instance of the use of apex to mean pen . The word , however , indicates any ...
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... sense , something which sets apart ; the latter gives its commonest meaning in classical Latin , the oath of allegiance taken by a soldier . From this it may be used to mean any solemn oath or pledge . By Christian writers it is used to ...
... sense , something which sets apart ; the latter gives its commonest meaning in classical Latin , the oath of allegiance taken by a soldier . From this it may be used to mean any solemn oath or pledge . By Christian writers it is used to ...
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... sense of the simple verb vincere , a use which is one of the characteristics of late Latin . There is no reason for Baehrens ' change of convincere to convertere , nor for Riese's reading mecum coniungere . 38. placet : sc . mihi . 38 ...
... sense of the simple verb vincere , a use which is one of the characteristics of late Latin . There is no reason for Baehrens ' change of convincere to convertere , nor for Riese's reading mecum coniungere . 38. placet : sc . mihi . 38 ...
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Accessus Aeneas Anthology Ascanius asyndeton Auson Baehrens beguile Birt Burman Carm Carthage Catull CHIG CHIG UNIV conscia corda corr damna diademate Dido Dido's dolor emendation Epist erat erit F-MIC Fallere nescit amor fata fata vocant fidem FMIC GAND grief haec Higt honesta pericula IGAN UNIVE igne ipse iubar late Latin licet Maehly male maledicta manu membra MIC CHIG MIC MIC MIC SITY MIC UNIV MICH UNIV MICHIS MICK mihi dura paras miseram modo nefas Nihil nocens nunc Oudendorp Ovid pendet perfide pia vota pinnis poem poets Proventu pudor quae querellis queror querulos quid quidquid quotiens regna reparatum rerum Riese Riese's RSITYCO salutem Schmalz solus Fallere nescit taedens taedia solus Fallere tamen Teuffel tibi Traube tuli umbris UNIL UNIV GAN UNIV MIC UNIV UNIV vellem verba Verg Vergil volgo vota nocentis weariness Wernsdorf
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Page 24 - I, sequere Italiam ventis, pete regna per undas. Spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt, supplicia hausurum scopulis, et nomine Dido saepe vocaturum. Sequar atris ignibus absens, et cum frigida mors anima seduxerit artus, 385 omnibus umbra locis adero. Dabis, improbe, poenas. Audiam, et haec Manis veniet mihi fama sub imos.
Page 26 - Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Page 41 - Cythera 680 aut super Idalium sacrata sede recondam, ne qua scire dolos mediusve occurrere possit. Tu faciem illius noctem non amplius unam falle dolo et notos pueri puer indue vultus, ut cum te gremio accipiet laetissima Dido 685 regalis inter mensas laticemque Lyaeum, cum dabit amplexus atque oscula dulcia figet, occultum inspires ignem fallasque veneno».
Page 33 - ... enim) scitatur, at ilia : " Somne, quies rerum, placidissime, Somne, deorum, pax animi, quern cura fugit, qui corpora duris fessa ministeriis mulces reparasque labori, 625 Somnia, quae veras aequent imitamine formas, Herculea Trachine iube sub imagine regis Alcyonen adeant simulacraque naufraga fingant.
Page 44 - Sed quod hospes eras, пес te magis esse nocentem Quam miserum, Troiane, puto, qui digna repellis, Dum non digna cupis, nondum bene siccus ad aequor 135 Curris, et extremas modo naufragus arripis undas.
Page 14 - Sic tua Cyrneas fugiant examina taxos, sic cytiso pastae distendant ubera vaccae: incipe, si quid habes. et me fecere poetam Pierides, sunt et mihi carmina, me quoque dicunt vatem pastores; sed non ego credulus illis.
Page 15 - Meliboee, deus nobis haec otia fecit. Namque erit ille mihi semper deus, illius aram saepe tener nostris ab ovilibus imbuet agnus. Ille meas errare boves, ut cernis, et ipsum ludere quae vellem calamo permisit agresti.
Page 23 - Posse nefas, tacitusque mea decedere terra ? Nec te noster amor, nec te data dextera quondam, Nec moritura tenet crudeli funere Dido...
Page 40 - Cui modo nostra fides amissam reddere matrem Dum cupit, hoc verum mentito pignore nomen 110 Format amor, gemitusque graves atque oscula figit Confessus pietate dolor. Cui digna rependes, Si i-.iihi dura paras?
Page 40 - Lamentis gemituque trahens infanda peregit Vota deis, durumque nefas sortemque malorum Te narrante tuli gemitus mentisque dolorem 105 Et lacrimas prior ipsa dedi. Cui digna rependes, Si mihi dura paras?