P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... language , a Latin scholar , if not a philologer , a competent textual critic ; and though no longer expected to display a knowledge of agriculture and rural life , he has to exhibit instead an acquaintance with mythology and legend ...
... language , a Latin scholar , if not a philologer , a competent textual critic ; and though no longer expected to display a knowledge of agriculture and rural life , he has to exhibit instead an acquaintance with mythology and legend ...
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... language and metre , to the latter of which subjects he has devoted an elaborate appendix . His fault is an occasional tendency to see insuperable difficulties and suspect interpolations : but it is kept within bounds , and may perhaps ...
... language and metre , to the latter of which subjects he has devoted an elaborate appendix . His fault is an occasional tendency to see insuperable difficulties and suspect interpolations : but it is kept within bounds , and may perhaps ...
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... language of Aeneas to Dido might perhaps have been spared , if it had been recollected that in Homer she herself receives the order from the gods to part with Ulysses , while in Virgil the whole burden is thrown upon Aeneas , who has ...
... language of Aeneas to Dido might perhaps have been spared , if it had been recollected that in Homer she herself receives the order from the gods to part with Ulysses , while in Virgil the whole burden is thrown upon Aeneas , who has ...
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... language of Virgil with the language of Sophocles ' . The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius would have their value for the critic of the Aeneid , if only as the single representative which has come down to us of the later epic poetry of ...
... language of Virgil with the language of Sophocles ' . The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius would have their value for the critic of the Aeneid , if only as the single representative which has come down to us of the later epic poetry of ...
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... language of Homer reproduced and modified by a modern student : but though it is sometimes graceful and ingenious , compared with the style of Virgil it is the mere jargon of a grammarian , seeking to revive a mode of speech of which he ...
... language of Homer reproduced and modified by a modern student : but though it is sometimes graceful and ingenious , compared with the style of Virgil it is the mere jargon of a grammarian , seeking to revive a mode of speech of which he ...
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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.