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Page 21
... gold . C. Galatea , child of Nereus , sweeter to me than Hybla's thyme , whiter than the swan , more delicate than the palest ivy , soon as the bullocks return home from pasture to their stalls , if thou hast any regard for thy Corydon ...
... gold . C. Galatea , child of Nereus , sweeter to me than Hybla's thyme , whiter than the swan , more delicate than the palest ivy , soon as the bullocks return home from pasture to their stalls , if thou hast any regard for thy Corydon ...
Page 55
... gold , may vie with the glories of Italy . No , nor Bactria , nor Ind , nor Panchaïa , with all the richness of its incense - bearing sands . Here is a land where no bulls , breathing fire from their nostrils , have ploughed the soil ...
... gold , may vie with the glories of Italy . No , nor Bactria , nor Ind , nor Panchaïa , with all the richness of its incense - bearing sands . Here is a land where no bulls , breathing fire from their nostrils , have ploughed the soil ...
Page 56
... gold — a land that has produced tribes of manly temper— the Marsian , the Sabine stock , the Ligurian , inured to hard- ship , and the Volscian spearmen ; the families of the Decii and the great Camilli , the Scipios - those iron ...
... gold — a land that has produced tribes of manly temper— the Marsian , the Sabine stock , the Ligurian , inured to hard- ship , and the Volscian spearmen ; the families of the Decii and the great Camilli , the Scipios - those iron ...
Page 66
... gold , and bronzes of Ephyra ; if their white wool is not stained by Assyrian drugs , or their clear oil's service spoiled by the bark of casia , still they have repose without care and a life where fraud and pretence are unknown , with ...
... gold , and bronzes of Ephyra ; if their white wool is not stained by Assyrian drugs , or their clear oil's service spoiled by the bark of casia , still they have repose without care and a life where fraud and pretence are unknown , with ...
Page 67
... have a gem to drink out of , and Tyrian purple to sleep on ; another is hoarding up wealth , and lying on the burying - place of his gold ; one is staring in rapt admiration at the Rostra ; another , open - mouthed , BOOK II . 450-508 . 67.
... have a gem to drink out of , and Tyrian purple to sleep on ; another is hoarding up wealth , and lying on the burying - place of his gold ; one is staring in rapt admiration at the Rostra ; another , open - mouthed , BOOK II . 450-508 . 67.
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