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... GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW . MY DEAR LUSHINGTON , Any old pupil of yours , in finishing a work either of classical scholarship or illustrative of ancient literature , must feel that he owes to you , probably more than to any one ...
... GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW . MY DEAR LUSHINGTON , Any old pupil of yours , in finishing a work either of classical scholarship or illustrative of ancient literature , must feel that he owes to you , probably more than to any one ...
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... Greek art and literature in both Alexandrine influences on the Augustan poetry Characteristics of the Alexandrine poets . Their treatment of mythological subjects Scientific and learned character of their poetry Their treatment of the ...
... Greek art and literature in both Alexandrine influences on the Augustan poetry Characteristics of the Alexandrine poets . Their treatment of mythological subjects Scientific and learned character of their poetry Their treatment of the ...
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... Greek , Latin , and modern imagination Vividness and realism of feeling characteristic of the Latin imagination Modes in which this vividness and realism are manifested by Virgil . 87-92 874 89 90 CHAPTER III . LIFE AND PERSONAL ...
... Greek , Latin , and modern imagination Vividness and realism of feeling characteristic of the Latin imagination Modes in which this vividness and realism are manifested by Virgil . 87-92 874 89 90 CHAPTER III . LIFE AND PERSONAL ...
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... Greek Pastoral 152-160 Theocritean origin of Virgil's Eclogues Primitive pastoral poem among the Greeks . The ' woes of Daphnis ' 152 154 155 CONTENTS The love of the Cyclops for Galatea Origin of xiv CONTENTS Parallel of the Augustan ...
... Greek Pastoral 152-160 Theocritean origin of Virgil's Eclogues Primitive pastoral poem among the Greeks . The ' woes of Daphnis ' 152 154 155 CONTENTS The love of the Cyclops for Galatea Origin of xiv CONTENTS Parallel of the Augustan ...
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... Greeks New type of didactic poetry introduced by Virgil III . National interest and substance of the Poem , Italian ... Greek and Roman writers on agriculture Relation of the Georgics to the Works and Days ' to the Alexandrine Metaphra ...
... Greeks New type of didactic poetry introduced by Virgil III . National interest and substance of the Poem , Italian ... Greek and Roman writers on agriculture Relation of the Georgics to the Works and Days ' to the Alexandrine Metaphra ...
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Page 170 - ... 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 170 - 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 347 - Eridani per silvam volvitur amnis. hie manus ob patriam pugnando volnera passi, 660 quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, quique pii vates et Phoebo digna locuti, inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes, quique sui memores alios fecere merendo ; omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.
Page 150 - 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. 40 ut vidi ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error.
Page 372 - Ille nihil ; nee me quaerentem vana moratur : Sed graviter gemitus imo de pectore ducens, ' Heu ! fuge, nate dea, teque his, ' ait,
Page 331 - 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.
Page 408 - 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 415 - 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 10 - Hinc Augustus agens Italos in proelia Caesar cum patribus populoque, Penatibus et magnis dis...
Page 260 - Roma, septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces. 535 ante etiam sceptrum Dictaei regis, et ante impia quam caesis gens est epulata iuvencis, aureus hanc vitam in terris Saturnus agebat.