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Page vii
... the Latin language . Even as it is , this volume owes not a little to Mr. Goldwin Smith's assistance . The Eclogues , the first two Georgics , and a part of the third we read together . The notes on the latter part of PREFACE.
... the Latin language . Even as it is , this volume owes not a little to Mr. Goldwin Smith's assistance . The Eclogues , the first two Georgics , and a part of the third we read together . The notes on the latter part of PREFACE.
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... language is singularly deficient in sketches of the history of clas- sical literature . Here , as elsewhere , I have written rather for learners than for scholars : I have sought to popularize what already exists in less accessible ...
... language is singularly deficient in sketches of the history of clas- sical literature . Here , as elsewhere , I have written rather for learners than for scholars : I have sought to popularize what already exists in less accessible ...
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... language . I have used Voss's commentary on the Eclogues ( in Reinhardt's Latin translation ) with advantage , fre- quently availing myself of his research even where I could not accept his views ; his commentary on the Georgics I have ...
... language . I have used Voss's commentary on the Eclogues ( in Reinhardt's Latin translation ) with advantage , fre- quently availing myself of his research even where I could not accept his views ; his commentary on the Georgics I have ...
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... language which shows that they were then in the closest intimacy . The time to which this journey relates is a matter of some difficulty , but there are perhaps only two times to which it can be referred , either the events recorded in ...
... language which shows that they were then in the closest intimacy . The time to which this journey relates is a matter of some difficulty , but there are perhaps only two times to which it can be referred , either the events recorded in ...
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... language rather than of fact . The poetry of external nature has been wakened into new and intenser life , and the habits of the country are represented to us in poems , reminding us of the earliest and best days of the Idyl : but the ...
... language rather than of fact . The poetry of external nature has been wakened into new and intenser life , and the habits of the country are represented to us in poems , reminding us of the earliest and best days of the Idyl : but the ...
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P. Vergili Maronis Opera: The Eclogues And Georgics Virgil,John Conington,Henry Nettleship No preview available - 2023 |
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Page 297 - Libyae, quid pascua versu prosequar et raris habitata mapalia tectis? 340 saepe diem noctemque et totum ex ordine mensem pascitur itque pecus longa in deserta sine ullis hospitiis: tantum campi iacet. omnia secum armentarius Afer agit, tectumque laremque armaque Amyclaeumque canem Cressamque pharetram...
Page 55 - PR o mihi turn 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 62 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 270 - Olympiacae miratus praemia palmae pascit equos, seu quis fortis ad aratra iuvencos, 50 corpora praecipue matrum legat. optima torvae forma bovis, cui turpe caput, cui plurima cervix, et crurum tenus a mento palearia pendent ; tum longo nullus lateri modus ; omnia magna, pes etiam; et camuris hirtae sub cornibus aures.
Page 262 - 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. necdum etiam audierant inflari classica, necdum impositos duris crepitare incudibus enses.
Page 377 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 377 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lowered, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 154 - Caesar, terrarumque velis curam, et te maximus orbis auctorem frugum tempestatumque potentem accipiat, cingens materna tempora myrto; an deus immensi venias maris ac tua nautae numina sola colant, tibi serviat ultima Thule...
Page 195 - Scylla capillo : quacumque illa levem fugiens secat aethera pennis, ecce inimicus atrox magno stridore per auras insequitur Nisus ; qua se fert Nisus ad auras, ilia levem fugiens raptim secat aethera pennis.
Page 313 - ... concidit et mixtum spumis vomit ore cruorem extremosque ciet gemitus. it tristis arator maerentem abiungens fraterna morte iuvencum, atque opere in medio defixa relinquit aratra.