Spelunca alta fuit vastoque immanis hiatu, scrupea, tuta lacu nigro nemorumque tenebris, quam super haud ullae poterant impune volantes tendere iter pennis; talis sese halitus atris 240 faucibus effundens supera ad convexa ferebat... Classical Associations of Places in Italy - Page 78by Frances Ellis Sabin - 1921 - 526 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jean Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan (marq.) - 1784 - 468 pages
...illo Dicitur, aetemumque tenet per secula nomen. His actis, properc exsequitur praecepta Sibyllae. Spelunca alta fuit, vastoque immanis hiatu, Scrupea,...nemorumque tenebris, Quam super haud ullae poterant impunè volantes Tendere iter pennis : talis sese halitus atris Faucibus effimdens supera ad convexa... | |
| Virgil - 1795 - 306 pages
...illo Dicitur, aeternumque tenet per saecula nomen. His actis, propere exsequitur praecepta Sibyllae. Spelunca alta fuit, vastoque immanis hiatu, Scrupea,...atris Faucibus effundens supera ad convexa ferebat. Quattuor hic primum nigrantes terga iuvencos Constituit, frontique invergit vina sacerdos; EC, summas... | |
| Richard Warner - Wales - 1800 - 396 pages
...realizes, with the exception of the noxious atmosphere of Avernus, the description of the Mantuan bard : " Spelunca alta fuit, vastoque immanis hiatu, " Scrupea,...haud ullae poterant impune volantes " Tendere iter peunts: talis sese halitus atris " Faucibus effundens supera ad convexa ferebat." The chasm is called... | |
| Virgil - 1800 - 294 pages
...illo Dicitur, sternumque tenet per sœcula nomen. His actis, propere exsequitur pracepta Sibyllae. Spelunca alta fuit, vastoque immanis hiatu, Scrupea, tuta lacu nigro nemorumque tenebris, Quam super baud ullae poterant impune volantes Tendere iter pennis, talis sese halitus atris Faucibus effundens... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 480 pages
...nature's child! Till then, thou pilgrim mourner ! Fare the* well. ' •• ... . NUMBER XVIL Spelunea alta fuit, vastoque immanis hiatu; Scrupea, tuta lacu...ullae poterant impune volantes Tendere iter pennis: tails sese halitus atris Faucibus efFundens supera ad convexa ferebat. VIRGIL. OBJECTS of terror may... | |
| Publius Maro Vergilius - 1804 - 500 pages
...conservé ton nom. ni. 3 34 jENEIDOS LIBER VI. v. 236. His actis , properè exsequitur praecepta Sibyllae. Spelunca alta fuit , vastoque immanis hiatu , Scrupea...nemorumque tenebris , Quam super haud ullae poterant impunè volantes Tendere iter pennis, talis sese halitus atris , Faucibus effundens supera ad convexa... | |
| Virgil - Epic poetry, Latin - 1804 - 562 pages
...illo Dicitur, œternumque tenet per sœcula nomen. His actis, properè exsequitur prœcepta Sihyllsc. Spelunca alta fuit, vastoque immanis hiatu, Scrupea..., tuta lacu nigro nemorumque tenebris , Quam super hand ull» poterant impune volantes Tendere iter pennis, talis sese halitus atris Fancibus efiundens... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...fuit, vastoque immanis hiatu Scrupea, tuta lacu nigro, netnorumque tenebris, Quam super baud ullit poterant impune volantes Tendere iter pennis, talis...atris Faucibus effundens supera ad convexa ferebat. I have added these examples, because some friends, for whose judgment I have great deference, were... | |
| John Gustavus Lemaistre - Europe - 1806 - 498 pages
...and which is supposed to" be that which Virgil has described in the foN lowing lines : — f • * " Spelunca alta fuit, vastoque immanis hiatu, Scrupea,...tuta lacu nigro, nemorumque tenebris: Quam super haud ullse poterant irapune volantes Tendere iter pennis ; tails sese halitus atris Faucibus effundens supera... | |
| Robert Renny - Enslaved persons - 1807 - 366 pages
...less, at every turn, than to pop upon " Cerberus, or some other horrid inhabitant of Pluto's dominion. Spelunca alta fuit, vastoque immanis hiatu, Scrupea, tuta lacu nigro, nemorumque tenebris. Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, Perque domos ditis vacuas, et inania regna, Quale per incertam... | |
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