The ... book of Virgil's Æneid, with a vocabulary ed. by J.T. White. (White's grammar sch. texts). 1st (-6th, 8th, 10th, 11th), Book 8

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Page 23 - Haud vatum ignarus venturique inscius aevi, Fecerat Ignipotens ; illic genus omne futurae Stirpis ab Ascanio pugnataque in ordine bella. Fecerat et viridi fetam Mavortis in antro 630 Procubuisse lupam : geminos huic ubera circum Ludere pendentes pueros, et lambere matrem Impavidos ; illam tereti cervice reflexam Mulcere alternos, et corpora fingere lingua.
Page iv - ... an acquaintance with the principles of GRAMMAR, as well as with ETYMOLOGY, is necessary to the understanding of a language, such points of construction as seem to require elucidation are concisely explained under the proper articles, or a reference is simply made to that rule in the Public Schools Latin Primer, or in Parry's Elementary Greek Grammar, which meets the particular difficulty. It occasionally happens, however, that more information is needed than can be gathered from the above-named...
Page 12 - haec nemora indigenae Fauni Nymphaeque tenebant gensque virum truncis et duro robore nata, 315 quis neque mos neque cultus erat, nec iungere tauros aut componere opes norant aut parcere parto, sed rami atque asper victu venatus alebat.
Page 4 - Thybris ea fluvium, quam longa est, nocte tumentem Leniit, et tacita refluens ita substitit unda, Mitis ut in morem stagni placidaeque paludis Sterneret aequor aquis, remo ut luctamen abesset.
Page 21 - Haec genitor digressu dicta supremo fundebat: famuli collapsum in tecta ferebant. lamque adeo exierat portis equitatus apertis, 585 Aeneas inter primos et fidus Achates, inde alii Troiae proceres, ipse agmine Pallas in medio, chlamyde et pictis conspectus in armis : qualis ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer unda, quem Venus ante alios astrorum diligit ignes, 590 extulit os sacrum caelo tenebrasque resolvit.
Page 13 - Argileti 345 testaturque locum et letum docet hospitis Argi. hinc ad Tarpeiam sedem et Capitolia ducit aurea nunc, olim silvestribus horrida dumis. iam tum religio pavidos terrebat agrestis dira loci, iam tum silvam saxumque tremebant. 350
Page 24 - Penatibus et magnis dis, stans celsa in puppi, geminas cui tempora flammas 680 laeta vomunt patriumque aperitur vertice sidus. parte alia ventis et dis Agrippa secundis arduus agmen agens ; cui, belli insigne superbum, tempora navali fulgent rostrata corona.
Page 25 - Omnigenumque deum monstra et latrator Anubis contra Neptunum et Venerem contraque Minervam tela tenent. Saevit medio in certamine Mavors 700 caelatus ferro tristesque ex aethere Dirae, et scissa gaudens vadit Discordia palla, quam cum sanguineo sequitur Bellona flagello.
Page 16 - Arma acri facienda viro. Nunc viribus usus, ' Nunc manibus rapidis, omni nunc arte magistra.
Page 2 - Huic deus ipse loci fluvio Tiberinus amoeno populeas inter senior se attollere frondes visus; eum tenuis glauco velabat amictu...

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