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... Purely Theocritean character of the seventh The first and ninth Eclogues Elements of interest in the sixth The Pollio ' • Questions discussed in connexion with that poem The eighth and tenth Eclogues · II . Relation of the Eclogues to ...
... Purely Theocritean character of the seventh The first and ninth Eclogues Elements of interest in the sixth The Pollio ' • Questions discussed in connexion with that poem The eighth and tenth Eclogues · II . Relation of the Eclogues to ...
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... purely literary conditions of the two epochs were in some respects parallel . They were both times , not of growth , but of maturity ; not so much of the spontaneous inspiration of genius , as of systematic effort directed in accordance ...
... purely literary conditions of the two epochs were in some respects parallel . They were both times , not of growth , but of maturity ; not so much of the spontaneous inspiration of genius , as of systematic effort directed in accordance ...
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... purely Roman , and born of the immediate circumstances of the age . Other extant works of art illustrate the divine functions and attributes claimed for Augustus . In one cameo he is seen throned beside the goddess Roma , with the ...
... purely Roman , and born of the immediate circumstances of the age . Other extant works of art illustrate the divine functions and attributes claimed for Augustus . In one cameo he is seen throned beside the goddess Roma , with the ...
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... purely human interest to the Aeneid . But the 1 ' Often did Macer , now advanced in years , read to me his poem on birds , and of the serpent whose sting is deadly , and of the herb that heals . ' Trist . iv . 10. 43-44 . 2 Sueton . De ...
... purely human interest to the Aeneid . But the 1 ' Often did Macer , now advanced in years , read to me his poem on birds , and of the serpent whose sting is deadly , and of the herb that heals . ' Trist . iv . 10. 43-44 . 2 Sueton . De ...
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... purely original in its activity , and which communicates an altogether novel impulse to the world , relies absolutely on itself , and may be little stimulated by sympathy or affected by criticism . Of such a type Lucretius in ancient ...
... purely original in its activity , and which communicates an altogether novel impulse to the world , relies absolutely on itself , and may be little stimulated by sympathy or affected by criticism . Of such a type Lucretius in ancient ...
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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.