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Page iv
... poet the appearance , as compared with his friend Horace , of one of the ancients of a century or two earlier . Other recent or living scholars have pursued a more mod- erate course in the treatment of the Vergilian text ; giving it a ...
... poet the appearance , as compared with his friend Horace , of one of the ancients of a century or two earlier . Other recent or living scholars have pursued a more mod- erate course in the treatment of the Vergilian text ; giving it a ...
Page viii
... poet called himself Vergilius , Latin scholars are now universally agreed . It is the form found in all the earliest manuscripts and inscriptions , while Greek writ- ers uniformly represented the name by the corresponding form ...
... poet called himself Vergilius , Latin scholars are now universally agreed . It is the form found in all the earliest manuscripts and inscriptions , while Greek writ- ers uniformly represented the name by the corresponding form ...
Page ix
... poet's name was more in keeping with some of their notions about its origin and significance . For in the fourth Eclogue he had sung , as they believed , of the Divine Son of the Virgin ; the Messiah prophesied in the same poem was the ...
... poet's name was more in keeping with some of their notions about its origin and significance . For in the fourth Eclogue he had sung , as they believed , of the Divine Son of the Virgin ; the Messiah prophesied in the same poem was the ...
Page xi
... poet and grammarian , Parthenius , who was then flourishing at Naples . At the age of twenty - three he left Naples for Rome , where he finished his education under Syro the Epicurean , an accomplished teacher of philosophy ...
... poet and grammarian , Parthenius , who was then flourishing at Naples . At the age of twenty - three he left Naples for Rome , where he finished his education under Syro the Epicurean , an accomplished teacher of philosophy ...
Page xii
... poet , and not less as a scholar , orator , and historian . Under his patronage the second , third , and fifth Eclogues had already been written , when the literary labors and the peaceful life of the poet were suddenly interrupted ...
... poet , and not less as a scholar , orator , and historian . Under his patronage the second , third , and fifth Eclogues had already been written , when the literary labors and the peaceful life of the poet were suddenly interrupted ...
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Page cxxxvi - ... sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora. diffugimus visu exsangues. illi agmine certo Laocoonta petunt ; et primum parva duorum corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque implicat et miseros morsu depascitur artus ; 215 post ipsum, auxilio subeuntem ac tela ferentem, corripiunt spirisque ligant ingentibus : et iam bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Page ccxcviii - Agnoscunt spolia inter se, galeamque nitentem Messapi, et multo phaleras sudore receptas. Et jam prima novo spargebat lumine terras Tithoni croceum linquens Aurora cubile...
Page ccxxxvi - ... tua me, genitor, tua tristis imago, saepius occurrens, haec limina tendere adegit. stant sale Tyrrheno classes. da iungere dextram, da, genitor ; teque amplexu ne subtrahe nostro.
Page ccxx - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, Cum sic orsa loqui vates: Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno; Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis ; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page xxi - Dardaniusque Paris. Pallas quas condidit arces ipsa colat : nobis placeant ante omnia silvae. Torva leaena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam, florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella, te Corydon, o Alexi : trahit sua quemque voluptas.
Page lxxv - Tentanda via est, qua me quoque possim Tollere humo, victorque virum volitare per ora.
Page ccxxix - ... infelix Dido, verus mihi nuntius ergo venerat exstinctam ferroque extrema secutam? funeris heu tibi causa fui? per sidera iuro, per superos et, si qua fides tellure sub ima est, invitus, regina, tuo de litore cessi.
Page ccclxii - Aenean captiva videbo." accepit vocem lacrimis Lavinia matris flagrantis perfusa genas, cui plurimus ignem 65 subiecit rubor et calefacta per ora cucurrit. Indum sanguineo veluti violaverit ostro si quis ebur, aut mixta rubent ubi lilia multa alba rosa : talis virgo dabat ore colores.
Page cxxx - Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant. Inde toro pater Aeneas sic orsus ab alto : 'Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem, Troianas ut opes et lamentabile regnum eruerint Danai; quaeque ipse miserrima vidi et quorum pars magna fui.
Page xxix - Nunc ego (namque super tibi erunt qui dicere laudes, Vare, tuas cupiant et tristia condere bella) agrestem tenui meditabor harundine Musam.