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... hand , L. Varius , the oldest among the poets of the new era , seems first to have become famous by a poem on the death of Julius Caesar . Virgil , in the poem placed first in order among his acknowledged works , speaks of Octavianus in ...
... hand , L. Varius , the oldest among the poets of the new era , seems first to have become famous by a poem on the death of Julius Caesar . Virgil , in the poem placed first in order among his acknowledged works , speaks of Octavianus in ...
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... hand , the gods of mythology appear to have a real existence , as manifestations of the divine energy , revealed in the religious traditions which connect the actual world of experience with a supernatural origin . So too Horace , in ...
... hand , the gods of mythology appear to have a real existence , as manifestations of the divine energy , revealed in the religious traditions which connect the actual world of experience with a supernatural origin . So too Horace , in ...
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... hands of the ' delatores , ' —that , namely , which is . employed in the prosecution and de- fence of men charged with grave offences against the State . Neither was there scope or inclination for philosophical or his- torical ...
... hands of the ' delatores , ' —that , namely , which is . employed in the prosecution and de- fence of men charged with grave offences against the State . Neither was there scope or inclination for philosophical or his- torical ...
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... hand , many circumstances contributed to give a great stimulus to poetical literature in its most trivial and transitory as well as its noblest and most enduring manifesta- tions . It is remarked by a recent French writer 2 , that ...
... hand , many circumstances contributed to give a great stimulus to poetical literature in its most trivial and transitory as well as its noblest and most enduring manifesta- tions . It is remarked by a recent French writer 2 , that ...
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... hand . Yet the words in the letter to Augustus , that I fancy myself to have been almost under the influence of some fatuity in en- gaging on so great a work ' if they are to be taken as a true expression of his feeling , imply a deeper ...
... hand . Yet the words in the letter to Augustus , that I fancy myself to have been almost under the influence of some fatuity in en- gaging on so great a work ' if they are to be taken as a true expression of his feeling , imply a deeper ...
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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.