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Page xvii
... poet Horace , afterwards one of his friends , was born B.C. 65 ; and Octavianus Caesar , afterwards the emperor Augustus , and his patron , in B.C. 63 , in the consulship of M. Tullius Cicero . Virgil's father probably had a small ...
... poet Horace , afterwards one of his friends , was born B.C. 65 ; and Octavianus Caesar , afterwards the emperor Augustus , and his patron , in B.C. 63 , in the consulship of M. Tullius Cicero . Virgil's father probably had a small ...
Page xviii
... poet was subse- quently disturbed in his possession and again restored , and whether he was not firmly secured in his patrimonial farm till after the peace of Brundusium , B.C. 40 , between Octavianus Caesar and M. Antonius , is a ...
... poet was subse- quently disturbed in his possession and again restored , and whether he was not firmly secured in his patrimonial farm till after the peace of Brundusium , B.C. 40 , between Octavianus Caesar and M. Antonius , is a ...
Page xix
... poet . While Augustus was in Spain , B.C. 27 , he wrote to Virgil to express his wish to have some monument of his poetical talent ; per- haps he desired that the poet should dedicate his labours to his glory , as he had done to that of ...
... poet . While Augustus was in Spain , B.C. 27 , he wrote to Virgil to express his wish to have some monument of his poetical talent ; per- haps he desired that the poet should dedicate his labours to his glory , as he had done to that of ...
Page xx
... poet was reciting this allusion to her son , and to have fainted from her emotions . She rewarded the poet munificently for his excusable flattery . As Marcellus did not die till B.C. 23 , these lines were of course written after his ...
... poet was reciting this allusion to her son , and to have fainted from her emotions . She rewarded the poet munificently for his excusable flattery . As Marcellus did not die till B.C. 23 , these lines were of course written after his ...
Page xxi
... poet , though Donatus says that it was . Virgil named as heredes in his testament his half - brother Valerius Proculus , to whom he left one - half of his property , and also Augustus , Maecenas , L. Varius , and Plotius Tucca . It is ...
... poet , though Donatus says that it was . Virgil named as heredes in his testament his half - brother Valerius Proculus , to whom he left one - half of his property , and also Augustus , Maecenas , L. Varius , and Plotius Tucca . It is ...
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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.