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... Virg.'s previous poems . - In commencing with ' cano ' he has followed his own ex- ample in the Georgics , rather than that of Homer , who at once invokes the Muse ; and the Latin Epic writers have followed Virg . The earlier ...
... Virg.'s previous poems . - In commencing with ' cano ' he has followed his own ex- ample in the Georgics , rather than that of Homer , who at once invokes the Muse ; and the Latin Epic writers have followed Virg . The earlier ...
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... Virg.'s brevity in narration . 195. ] The order seems to be ' deinde dividit vina quae , ' & c . , as there is no other way of making sense of deinde . ' There are other passages in Virg . where ' deinde ' may be regarded as out of ...
... Virg.'s brevity in narration . 195. ] The order seems to be ' deinde dividit vina quae , ' & c . , as there is no other way of making sense of deinde . ' There are other passages in Virg . where ' deinde ' may be regarded as out of ...
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... Virg.'s words : ' we shall remember these things ' ( i . e . we shall live to think of them as past , and recall them as we are now recalling previous perils , which is the meaning of Od . 12. 212 ) , and we shall remember them with ...
... Virg.'s words : ' we shall remember these things ' ( i . e . we shall live to think of them as past , and recall them as we are now recalling previous perils , which is the meaning of Od . 12. 212 ) , and we shall remember them with ...
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... Virg.'s love of recondite half - allusions to tradi- tions which he does not expressly adopt is unquestionable ; but where , as here , there is no more than a possibility of such a re- ference , we may perhaps make the ques- tion one of ...
... Virg.'s love of recondite half - allusions to tradi- tions which he does not expressly adopt is unquestionable ; but where , as here , there is no more than a possibility of such a re- ference , we may perhaps make the ques- tion one of ...
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... Virg.'s mean- ing when the passage can be explained without it , and the simpler view is con- firmed by the language of the parallel 7 . 225-227 . Silius ( 15. 334 ) has imitated these words in a way which seems to show that he ...
... Virg.'s mean- ing when the passage can be explained without it , and the simpler view is con- firmed by the language of the parallel 7 . 225-227 . Silius ( 15. 334 ) has imitated these words in a way which seems to show that he ...
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P. Vergili Maronis Opera: The Aeneid John Conington,Henry Nettleship,Virgil No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 439 - Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno : noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 136 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 456 - Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna : Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra luppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
Page 177 - Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? DoCT. Do you mark that? LADY M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 313 - Nox erat et placidum carpebant fessa soporem corpora per terras, silvaeque et saeva quierant aequora, cum medio volvuntur sidera lapsu, cum tacet omnis ager, pecudes pictaeque volucres, quaeque lacus late liquidos quaeque aspera dumis rura tenent, somno positae sub nocte silenti.
Page 202 - Accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem. Hie domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.