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Page lxviii - Jovis impio Tutela Saturno refulgens Eripuit volucrisque Fati Tardavit alas, cum populus frequens Laetum theatris ter crepuit sonum : Me truncus illapsus cerebro Sustulerat, nisi Faunus ictum Dextra levasset, Mercurialium Gustos virorum.
Page 8 - ... natura dedit linguamque capaxque ingenium uolucremque animum, quem denique in unum descendit deus atque habitat seque ipse requirit. mitto alias...
Page 48 - ... suis, ut cum omnia certa notitia steterint, proprios reuocentur ad usus. ac uelut in nudis cum surgunt montibus urbes, conditor et uacuos mûris circumdare collis destinât, ante manus quam templet scindere fossas, quaerit opes : ruit ecce nemus, saltusque uetusti procumbunt solemque nouum, noua sidéra cernunt ; pellitur omne loco uolucrum genus atque ferarum, antiquasque domos et nota cubilia linquunt.
Page 48 - ... sunt gradibus tradenda suis, ut, cum omnia certa notitia steterint, proprios reuocentur ad usus. ac, uelut, in nudis cum surgunt montibus urbes conditor et uacuos mûris circumdare...
Page 8 - ... mitto, quod aequali nihil est sub lege tributum, quod patet auctores summi non pectoris esse, mitto quod (et) certum est et ineuitabile fatum, materiaeque datum est cogi, sed cogeré mundo. quis caelum posset nisi caeli muñere nosse 115 et reperire deum, nisi qui pars ipse deorum est?
Page 4 - Lanigerum uicto ducentem sidera ponto ceteraque ex uariis pendentia casibus astra aethera per summum uoluerunt fixa reuolui. quorum carminibus nihil est nisi fabula caelum, terraque composuit caelum, quae pendet ab illo. quin etiam pecorum ritus et Pana sonantem in calamos Sicula memorat tellure creatus ; nec siluis siluestre canit perque horrida motus rura serit dulcis musamque inducit in arua.
Page 10 - ... nee per iter socios commune regentibus actus, sed cáelo noscenda canam, mirantibus astris et gaudente sui mundo per carmina uatis, uel quibus illa sacros non inuidere meatus notitiamque sui, minima est quae turba per orbem. qualis praedicitur.
Page 8 - ... quis neget esse nefas inuitum prendere mundum et uelut in semet captum deducere in orbem ? sed ne circuitu longo manifesta probentur, ipsa fides operi faciet pondusque fidemque.
Page 68 - Musamque inducit in auras. The sweet Theocritus, with softest strains, Makes piping Pan delight Sicilian swains; Through his smooth reed no rustic numbers move. But all is tenderness, and all is love; As if the Muses sat in every vale, Inspir'd the song, and told the melting tale.
Page 8 - ... in caelum sacra ad commercia rerum et primas quas dant leges nascentibus astra ? quis neget esse nefas...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Manili Astronomicon Liber II |
| Author | Marcus Manilius |
| Editor | Heathcote William Garrod |
| Publisher | e Typ. Academico, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 165 pages |
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