Notes of a twelve years' voyage of discovery in the first six books of the EneisMeinhold and Sons, 1853 |
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... Sinon " laxat claustra , " undoes the fastenings , and immediately " patefactus * This , as I have found since the above commentary was written ( in 1852 ) , has been actually done by Alfieri in his translation : " Disse , e coll ' asta ...
... Sinon " laxat claustra , " undoes the fastenings , and immediately " patefactus * This , as I have found since the above commentary was written ( in 1852 ) , has been actually done by Alfieri in his translation : " Disse , e coll ' asta ...
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... Sinon , of the whole of whose story he was an ear - witness ; that he was one of those who agreed to spare Sinon's life ; that he saw the two serpents come across the sea , and destroy Laocoon and his two sons ; that he assisted to ...
... Sinon , of the whole of whose story he was an ear - witness ; that he was one of those who agreed to spare Sinon's life ; that he saw the two serpents come across the sea , and destroy Laocoon and his two sons ; that he assisted to ...
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... Sinon was a traitor and had fired the city , and that the whole Grecian army was entering at the gates ; that he united himself with a few friends whom he happened to meet , and falling in with Androgeos , and a party of Greeks , they ...
... Sinon was a traitor and had fired the city , and that the whole Grecian army was entering at the gates ; that he united himself with a few friends whom he happened to meet , and falling in with Androgeos , and a party of Greeks , they ...
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... Sinon . This is , I think , a sufficient answer to those critics who have objected to Virgil's ac- count of the taking of Troy , that it is by no means a full , complete , and strategical account of the taking of a great city ; that ...
... Sinon . This is , I think , a sufficient answer to those critics who have objected to Virgil's ac- count of the taking of Troy , that it is by no means a full , complete , and strategical account of the taking of a great city ; that ...
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... Sinon , on which the whole plot hangs ? that of the vision , of the inimitable TEMPUS ERAT , the MOESTISSIMUS HECTOR ? that of the Priameian priestess , AD COELUM TENDENS ARDENTIA LUMINA FRUSTRA , LUMINA NAM TENERAS ARCEBANT VINCULA ...
... Sinon , on which the whole plot hangs ? that of the vision , of the inimitable TEMPUS ERAT , the MOESTISSIMUS HECTOR ? that of the Priameian priestess , AD COELUM TENDENS ARDENTIA LUMINA FRUSTRA , LUMINA NAM TENERAS ARCEBANT VINCULA ...
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