The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid: On the Loves of Dido and Aeneas |
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... passage for th ' ensuing rain : The Trojan youth , and Tyrian followers , And Venus ' Dardan grandchild through the plain Seek several shelters : rivers , like a main , Rush from the mountains round . One cave that lord Of Troy , and ...
... passage for th ' ensuing rain : The Trojan youth , and Tyrian followers , And Venus ' Dardan grandchild through the plain Seek several shelters : rivers , like a main , Rush from the mountains round . One cave that lord Of Troy , and ...
Page 80
... passage . Nettleship is inclined to read Vaccaei , from Isidore's citation of the lines . See his note in Conington , which is good , but too long to quote . Isidore ( 560-636 ) was archbishop of Seville and an encyclopaedic writer ...
... passage . Nettleship is inclined to read Vaccaei , from Isidore's citation of the lines . See his note in Conington , which is good , but too long to quote . Isidore ( 560-636 ) was archbishop of Seville and an encyclopaedic writer ...
Page 81
... passage seems to describe the actions of a single day ( see 77 ) , and so instaurare diem cannot mean to ' begin each day with oblation . ' Henry and Page give the word its technical sense , ' to repeat a religious ceremony when there ...
... passage seems to describe the actions of a single day ( see 77 ) , and so instaurare diem cannot mean to ' begin each day with oblation . ' Henry and Page give the word its technical sense , ' to repeat a religious ceremony when there ...
Page 83
... passage . ' 90-128 . It is rather a hopeless task to persuade the modern reader to an interest in the conspiracy of the goddesses . The only thing for us is to try to enjoy Virgil's verse for its own sake , and to re- member Dryden's ...
... passage . ' 90-128 . It is rather a hopeless task to persuade the modern reader to an interest in the conspiracy of the goddesses . The only thing for us is to try to enjoy Virgil's verse for its own sake , and to re- member Dryden's ...
Page 85
... passage repays compari- son with the setting out of Pallas and the cavalry in VIII . 585 ff . , as both Henry and Warde Fowler have remarked . Notice the way it mounts towards the climax : a pause to heighten expectation before Dido ...
... passage repays compari- son with the setting out of Pallas and the cavalry in VIII . 585 ff . , as both Henry and Warde Fowler have remarked . Notice the way it mounts towards the climax : a pause to heighten expectation before Dido ...
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1817 LIBRARIES Aeneid Agathyrsi amor animum Anna Ascanius atque auras caelum caput Carthage Catullus Cerda CHIGAN Classical Review Conington curas Cynthus Dardanus death dictis DIDO AND AENEAS Dido's divum doth Dryopes Ennius epithet eyes Fama fame Fanshawe fata Fates Fourth Book Georgics gives Glover gods haec Heaven Henry hinc Iarbas illa inter ipsa ipse Italiam Iulus iussa Jove Juno lacrimas Libyae lines litora LOVES OF DIDO lumina Lyciae Mackail MICHIGAN mihi moenia morte night numina nunc omnis Ovid Oxford passage pectore Pentheus poet primum Professor quae quam queen quid quis quod quote reader regina Roman Rome Sargeaunt says seems Servius sidera Sir James Frazer sister somnos soror speech sword Sychaeus tantum tears terras thee things thou tibi translation Trojans Tyre Tyrian Tyrii umbras UNIVE unto urbem urbes Venus Virgil Virgilian viri volnus Warde Fowler words
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Page 48 - I, sequere Italiam ventis; pete regna per undas. 'Spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt, 'Supplicia hausurum scopulis, et nomine Dido 'Saepe vocaturum.
Page 48 - Nee tibi diva parens, generis nee Dardanus auctor, Perfide ; sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens Caucasus, Hyrcanaeque admorunt ubera tigres.
Page 22 - ... uritur infelix Dido totaque vagatur urbe furens qualis coniecta cerva sagitta, quam procul incautam nemora inter Cresia fixit 70 pastor agens telis liquitque volatile ferrum nescius, illa fuga silvas saltusque peragrat Dictaeos, haeret lateri letalis harundo.
Page 82 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.
Page 32 - ... illam Terra parens ira inritata deorum extremam, ut perhibent, Coeo Enceladoque sororem progenuit pedibus celerem et pernicibus alis, 180 monstrum horrendum, ingens, cui quot sunt corpore plumae, tot vigiles oculi subter (mirabile dictu), tot linguae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit auris.
Page 44 - Saltern si qua mihi de te suscepta fuisset ante fugam suboles, si quis mihi parvulus aula luderet Aeneas, qui te tamen ore referret, 330 non equidem omnino capta ac deserta viderer.
Page 50 - Ñeque te teneo neque dicta refello : 380 i, sequere Italiam ventis, pete regna per undas. Spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt, supplicia hausurum scopulis et nomine Dido saepe vocaturum. Sequar atris ignibus absens, et, cum frigida mors anima seduxerit artus, 385 omnibus umbra locis adero. Dabis, improbe, poenas. Audiam, et haec manes veniet mihi fama sub imos.
Page 32 - Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes, Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum : mobilitate viget virisque adquirit eundo, parva metu primo, mox sese attollit in auras ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit.
Page 70 - Elissae, 610 accipite haec, meritumque malis advertite numen, et nostras audite preces. Si tangere portus infandum caput ac terris adnare necesse est, et sic fata lovis poscunt, hie terminus haeret : at bello audacis populi vexatus et armis, 615 finibus extorris, complexu avulsus luli, auxilium imploret, videatque indigna suorum funera ; nee, cum se sub leges pacis iniquae tradiderit, regno aut optata luce fruatur, sed cadat ante diem, mediaque inhumatus arena.
Page 62 - Quaeque lacus late liquidos, quaeque aspera dumis Rura tenent, somno positae sub nocte silenti...