P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... already existing at Rome , and the habits of ordinary speech , would have been a serious impediment to Virgil , even if he had wished to follow Homer faithfully . As he was obliged to talk of Jupiter , Juno , and Mars , to a nation ...
... already existing at Rome , and the habits of ordinary speech , would have been a serious impediment to Virgil , even if he had wished to follow Homer faithfully . As he was obliged to talk of Jupiter , Juno , and Mars , to a nation ...
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... already shown . itself in the princely hospitality which she extends to Aeneas and his shipwrecked comrades ; but , after all , we sympathize with her simply as a woman ; it is the mere exhibition of the depths of a woman's heart that ...
... already shown . itself in the princely hospitality which she extends to Aeneas and his shipwrecked comrades ; but , after all , we sympathize with her simply as a woman ; it is the mere exhibition of the depths of a woman's heart that ...
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... rhetorical justice to the personages of the story , is more strongly shown in the Aeneid than in the Homeric poems . One signal instance of this I have already noted in the character of Dido ; the character 16 AENEIS .
... rhetorical justice to the personages of the story , is more strongly shown in the Aeneid than in the Homeric poems . One signal instance of this I have already noted in the character of Dido ; the character 16 AENEIS .
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... already been expanded into the song of Silenus ; the reception of the Argonauts by Hypsipyle is like the reception of the Trojans by Dido , and the parting of Jason from the Lemnian princess reappears , though in very different colours ...
... already been expanded into the song of Silenus ; the reception of the Argonauts by Hypsipyle is like the reception of the Trojans by Dido , and the parting of Jason from the Lemnian princess reappears , though in very different colours ...
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... already existed , and augment it by a thousand new and ingenious devices of his own . All this we may admit , as we have made similar admissions in the case of Apollonius ; yet it may still be true that Virgil's debt to Ennius is so ...
... already existed , and augment it by a thousand new and ingenious devices of his own . All this we may admit , as we have made similar admissions in the case of Apollonius ; yet it may still be true that Virgil's debt to Ennius is so ...
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P. Vergili Maronis Opera: The Aeneid John Conington,Henry Nettleship,Virgil No preview available - 2015 |
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Achilles Aeneas Aeneid aequora Aesch aether Anchises animi Apoll Apollo appears arma Ascanius atque auras caelum Carthage Catull Cerda circum comp Creusa cursus Dardanus Deiphobus Dict Dido Dido's Donatus doubtless Edition Ennius epithet explained expression fata favour Fcap foll Forb Forc fragm give gods Gossrau Greek haec Heins Helenus hendiadys Henry Heyne Heyne remarks hinc Homeric imitated inter ipse Juno litora Livy Lucr lumina manu meaning mentioned mihi Mnestheus moenia natural notion numine nunc omnis parallel passage pater perhaps Pierius poet poetical Priam Priscian probably quae quam quid quod quoted reading reference Ribbeck rightly Roman says seems sense Serv Sibyl story suppose terra thinks tibi tion Troia Trojans Troy Ulysses urbem Venus Virg Virg.'s Virgil viri Wagn words Wund δὲ καὶ τε
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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.