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Page xvi
... pass to rise no more ; VIII Now thy Forum roars no longer , fallen every purple Caesar's dome- Tho ' thine ocean - roll of rhythm sound for ever of Imperial Rome- IX Now the Rome of slaves hath perish'd , and the Rome of freemen holds ...
... pass to rise no more ; VIII Now thy Forum roars no longer , fallen every purple Caesar's dome- Tho ' thine ocean - roll of rhythm sound for ever of Imperial Rome- IX Now the Rome of slaves hath perish'd , and the Rome of freemen holds ...
Page 171
... passing near the Sicilian straits ; see iii , 431 ff . penitusque sonantis scopulos : and the deep- echoing cliffs , i.e. the cliffs that echoed to the barking of Scylla's dogs . 201. accestis : shortened form for accessistis ; B. 116 ...
... passing near the Sicilian straits ; see iii , 431 ff . penitusque sonantis scopulos : and the deep- echoing cliffs , i.e. the cliffs that echoed to the barking of Scylla's dogs . 201. accestis : shortened form for accessistis ; B. 116 ...
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... pass on beyond . The word in- volves the added idea of surmounting difficulties . Timavi : the modern Timavo , a river at the head of the Adriatic Sea in modern Austria . After a subterranean course of nearly twenty - five miles , it ...
... pass on beyond . The word in- volves the added idea of surmounting difficulties . Timavi : the modern Timavo , a river at the head of the Adriatic Sea in modern Austria . After a subterranean course of nearly twenty - five miles , it ...
Page 199
... . Virgil evidently has in mind the Homeric custom of passing to guests a basin of water in which the hands could be dipped . Cererem bread . By Metonymy the name of the goddess of the grain is NOTES TO BOOK I , LINES 681-701 . 199.
... . Virgil evidently has in mind the Homeric custom of passing to guests a basin of water in which the hands could be dipped . Cererem bread . By Metonymy the name of the goddess of the grain is NOTES TO BOOK I , LINES 681-701 . 199.
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... passing nights , viz . of winter . 747. ingeminant plausu : poetic for ingeminant plausum . 749. infelix : cf. line 712 , pesti devota futurae . amorem : i.e. drank deep draughts of love . longum bibebat 751. Aurorae filius : Memnon ...
... passing nights , viz . of winter . 747. ingeminant plausu : poetic for ingeminant plausum . 749. infelix : cf. line 712 , pesti devota futurae . amorem : i.e. drank deep draughts of love . longum bibebat 751. Aurorae filius : Memnon ...
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Page x - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh, a marble face; Plead better at the bar; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise. But Rome! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war, thy own majestic way: To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free: — These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
Page xi - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Page 122 - Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula poscit : nunc grege de intacto septem mactare iuvencos praestiterit, totidem lectas de more bidentes.' Talibus affata Aenean (nec sacra morantur 40 iussa viri) Teucros vocat alta in templa sacerdos. Excisum Euboicae latus ingens rupis in antrum, quo lati ducunt aditus centum, ostia centum; unde ruunt totidem voces, responsa Sibyllae. Ventum erat ad limen, cum virgo 'Poscere fata 45 tempus
Page 21 - Fracti bello fatisque repulsi ductores Danaum, tot iam labentibus annis, instar montis equum divina Palladis arte aedificant, sectaque intexunt abiete costas : votum pro reditu simulant ; ea fama vagatur.
Page xii - Chanter of the Pollio, glorying in the blissful years again to be, Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless sea ; Thou that seSst Universal Nature moved by Universal Mind ; Thou majestic in thy sadness at the doubtful doom of human kind...
Page 144 - ... quin et supremo cum lumine vita reliquit, 735 non tamen omne malum miseris nee funditus omnes corporeae excedunt pestes, penitusque necesse est multa diu concreta modis inolescere miris. ergo exercentur poenis, veterumque malorum supplicia expendunt : aliae panduntur inanes 740 suspensae ad ventos ; aliis sub gurgite vasto infectum eluitur scelus, aut exuritur igni...
Page 125 - Cocytusque sinu labens circumvenit atro. quod si tantus amor menti, si tanta cupido est, bis Stygios innare lacus, bis nigra videre Tartara, et insano juvat indulgere labori, 135 accipe, quae peragenda prius. Latet arbore opaca aureus et foliis et lento vimine ramus, Junoni infernae dictus sacer...
Page 36 - Vestibulum ante ipsum primoque in limine Pyrrhus exsultat, telis et luce coruscus aëna; 470 qualis ubi in lucem coluber mala gramina pastus, frigida sub terra tumidum quem bruma tegebat, nunc positis novus exuviis nitidusque iuventa lubrica convolvit sublato pectore terga, arduus ad solem, et linguis micat ore trisulcis.
Page 123 - At, Phoebi nondum patiens, immanis in antro bacchatur vates, magnum si pectore possit excussisse deum ; tanto magis ille fatigat os rabidum, fera corda domans, fingitque premendo.
Page 79 - At regina dolos (quis fallere possit amantem?) praesensit motusque excepit prima futuros, omnia tuta timens. Eadem impia Fama furenti detulit armari classem cursumque parari. Saevit inops animi totamque incensa per urbem 300 bacchatur, qualis commotis excita sacris Thyias, ubi audito stimulant trieterica Baccho orgia nocturnusque vocat clamore Cithaeron.