Pvbli Vergili Maronis Bvcolica: Aeneis: Georgica: the greater poems of Virgil, Volume 1Ginn & Company, 1894 |
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... Life of Virgil , the Summaries of the separate books , and the List of Plants . The second volume will contain the remainder of the Æneid , with the Georgics . CAMBRIDGE , November , 1881 . THE LIFE OF VIRGIL . BY general consent , the.
... Life of Virgil , the Summaries of the separate books , and the List of Plants . The second volume will contain the remainder of the Æneid , with the Georgics . CAMBRIDGE , November , 1881 . THE LIFE OF VIRGIL . BY general consent , the.
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... plant Syringa , and syringe ) . The hollow reed has given its name to the vibrating tongue of wood or metal which takes its place in modern instruments . One cannot help feeling that the idea of the humble nature of pastoral poetry is ...
... plant Syringa , and syringe ) . The hollow reed has given its name to the vibrating tongue of wood or metal which takes its place in modern instruments . One cannot help feeling that the idea of the humble nature of pastoral poetry is ...
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... plant is said to be the wall - flower . ( For the description of these plants , see Index . ) -casia , abl . of means . - intexens has vacci- nia as object . 51. ipse ego , while the nymphs bring flowers , I will gather fruits . cana ...
... plant is said to be the wall - flower . ( For the description of these plants , see Index . ) -casia , abl . of means . - intexens has vacci- nia as object . 51. ipse ego , while the nymphs bring flowers , I will gather fruits . cana ...
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... plants were the delight of Apollo ; the first being the nymph Daphne , who fled from his pursuit ( Ovid , Met . i . 452 ) , and the second a beautiful youth accidentally killed by him with a discus ( Id . x . 162 ) . For scanning see ...
... plants were the delight of Apollo ; the first being the nymph Daphne , who fled from his pursuit ( Ovid , Met . i . 452 ) , and the second a beautiful youth accidentally killed by him with a discus ( Id . x . 162 ) . For scanning see ...
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... plant sacred to Apollo . — omnis , notice the quantity of the i.— arbusta , i.e. the simplest rural subjects . If the poem is to be rural at all , let it be on a higher key . 3. consule , Pollio . 4. Cumaei , i.e. the Sibylline books ...
... plant sacred to Apollo . — omnis , notice the quantity of the i.— arbusta , i.e. the simplest rural subjects . If the poem is to be rural at all , let it be on a higher key . 3. consule , Pollio . 4. Cumaei , i.e. the Sibylline books ...
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Page 163 - Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna: quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna 270 est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra luppiter et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
Page 23 - Amor docuit natorum sanguine matrem commaculare manus ; crudelis tu quoque, mater : crudelis mater magis, an puer improbus ille? improbus ille puer ; crudelis tu quoque, mater.
Page 14 - Apollo. 35 grandia saepe quibus mandavimus hordea sulcis, infelix lolium et steriles nascuntur avenae; pro molli viola, pro purpureo narcisso carduus et spinis surgit paliurus acutis. spargite humum foliis, inducite fontibus umbras, 40 pastores; mandat fieri sibi talia Daphnis; et tumulum facite, et tumulo superaddite carmen: 'Daphnis ego in silvis, hinc usque ad sidera notus, formosi pecoris custos, formosior ipse.
Page 22 - Saepibus in nostris parvam te roscida mala — Dux ego vester eram — vidi cum matre legentem. Alter ab undecimo tum me iam acceperat annus ; Iam fragilis poteram ab terra contingere ramos. Ut vidi, ut perii ! ut me malus abstulit error ! Incipe Maenalios mecum, mea tibia, versus.
Page 181 - Sunt geminae Somni portae ; quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, 895 sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes.
Page 18 - Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
Page 159 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 59 - infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem, Troianas ut opes et lamentabile regnum eruerint Danai, quaeque ipse miserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna fui. quis talia fando Myrmidonum Dolopumve aut duri miles Ulixi temperet a lacrimis ? et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat, suadentque cadentia sidera somnos.
Page 149 - Nate dea, quo fata trahunt retrahuntque, sequamur; Quidquid erit, superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.
Page 40 - Post mihi non simili poena commissa luetis. Maturate fugam, regique haec dicite vestro : non illi imperium pelagi saevumque tridentem, sed mihi sorte datum.