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... divine attributes 2 . The origin of this cultus , ' as it first established itself in the Greek cities of Asia , may be referred to a survival of the old Greek hero - worship , which led even in the Republican times to the offering of ...
... divine attributes 2 . The origin of this cultus , ' as it first established itself in the Greek cities of Asia , may be referred to a survival of the old Greek hero - worship , which led even in the Republican times to the offering of ...
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... divine origin of the Emperor , — ' Augustus Caesar , of the race of heaven , ' - as the descendant of Venus . Both too dwell on the especial protection of which he was the object . The divine care which had watched over Rome from its ...
... divine origin of the Emperor , — ' Augustus Caesar , of the race of heaven , ' - as the descendant of Venus . Both too dwell on the especial protection of which he was the object . The divine care which had watched over Rome from its ...
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... divine energy , revealed in the religious traditions which connect the actual world of experience with a supernatural origin . So too Horace , in his Odes , treats the blending of the divine with the human elements in Augustus ...
... divine energy , revealed in the religious traditions which connect the actual world of experience with a supernatural origin . So too Horace , in his Odes , treats the blending of the divine with the human elements in Augustus ...
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... divine energy diffused through all living things might appear to be united with the human elements in Augustus as it was in no other man , so that while still on earth he might be thought of , if not as a ' praesens divus , ' yet as ...
... divine energy diffused through all living things might appear to be united with the human elements in Augustus as it was in no other man , so that while still on earth he might be thought of , if not as a ' praesens divus , ' yet as ...
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... divine descent and possessed of more than mortal attributes : the especial object of care to the supreme God of Heaven ; to Apollo , whom , since the victory of Actium , he claimed as his tutelary divinity ; to the Earth - goddess , the ...
... divine descent and possessed of more than mortal attributes : the especial object of care to the supreme God of Heaven ; to Apollo , whom , since the victory of Actium , he claimed as his tutelary divinity ; to the Earth - goddess , the ...
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Page 164 - ... hinc tibi quae semper vicino ab limite saepes Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti saepe levi somnum suadebit inire susurro hinc alta sub rupe canet frondator ad auras nee tamen interea raucae tua cura palumbes nee gemere aeria cessabit turtur ab ulmo.
Page 247 - Tam multae scelerum facies; non ullus aratro Dignus honos; squalent abductis arva colonis, Et curvae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem. Hinc movet Euphrates, illinc Germania bellum ; Vicinae ruptis inter se legibus urbes 510 Arma ferunt ; saevit toto Mars impius orbe : Ut cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae, Addunt in spatia, et frustra retinacula tendens Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas.
Page 164 - PR o mihi tum longae maneat pars ultima vitae, spiritus et, quantum sat erit tua dicere facta : non me carminibus vincet nee Thracius Orpheus, 55 nee Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.
Page 400 - Fly hence, our contact fear: Still fly, plunge deeper in the bowering wood! Averse, as Dido did with gesture stern From her false friend's approach in Hades turn, Wave us away, and keep thy solitude!
Page 366 - Heu fuge, nate dea, teque his" ait "eripe flammis. Hostis habet muros, ruit alto a culmine Troia.
Page 407 - Turnus vertitur arma tenens, et toto vertice supra est; ceu septem surgens sedatis amnibus altus 30 per tacitum Ganges, aut pingui flumine Nilus cum refluit campis et iam se condidit alveo.
Page 346 - Oceano, famam qui terminet astris, lulius, a magno demissum nomen lulo. Hunc tu olim caelo spoliis Orientis onustum accipies secura; vocabitur hie quoque votis.
Page 4 - Hinc Augustus agens Italos in proelia Caesar cum patribus populoque, Penatibus et magnis dis...
Page 320 - His ego nee metas rerum nee tempora pono ; imperium sine fine dedi.
Page 325 - En, qui nostra sibi bello connubia poscunt ! Quis deus Italiam, quae vos dementia adegit ? Non hic Atridae, nec fandi fictor Ulixes. Durum a stirpe genus natos ad flumina primum Deferimus saevoque gelu duramus et undis ; Venatu invigilant pueri, silvasque fatigant ; Flectere ludus equos et spicula tendere cornu. At patiens operum parvoque adsueta iuventus Aut rastris terram domat, aut quatit oppida bello.