The fourth book of Virgil's Georgics, with a vocabularyLongmans, Green and Company, 1884 - 104 pages |
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akin to Gr akin to Sans ancients applied āre āri atque ātum āvi bear become bees belonging beneath bind Books break bring called carry cast cattle cause close comm Comp conj contr cover Cyrene denoting directions draw drive dwell ĕre ĕris fall flow force Gerund give hæc hand hence hives hold hollow intens Italy Itum join kind lead light Lower means mind move ntis nymphs one's ōris pass perf perhaps person plant plur prep pres prob produce pron reference reflexive force Respect river Roman root serves shine sing sound speak stand stream strike Subst suffix tear thing throw tree turn tūs Virgil whence young
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Page 18 - inquit " miseram et te perdidit, Orpheu, quis tantus furor ? En iterum crudelia retro 495 fata vocant, conditque natantia lumina somnus. Iam que vale: feror ingenti circumdata nocte invalidasque tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas...
Page 17 - Cerberus ora, atque Ixionii vento rota constitit orbis. lamque pedem referens casus evaserat omnis, 485 redditaque Eurydice superas veniebat ad auras pone sequens - namque hanc dederat Proserpina legem cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem ignoscenda quidem, scirent si ignoscere manes: restitit Eurydicenque suam iam luce sub ipsa 490 immemor heu victusque animi respexit. ibi omnis effusus labor atque immitis rupta tyranni foedera terque fragor stagnis auditus Avernis. illa 'quis et me...
Page 1 - PROTINUS aerii mellis caelestia dona Exsequar. Hanc etiam, Maecenas, aspice partem. Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum, Magnanimosque duces totiusque ordine gentis Mores et studia et populos et proelia dicam. 5 In tenui labor; at tenuis non gloria, si quem Numina laeva sinunt auditque vocatus Apollo.
Page 15 - Indos 425 ardebat caelo, et medium sol igneus orbem hauserat; arebant herbae, et cava flumina siccis faucibus ad limum radii tepefacta coquebant: cum Proteus consueta petens e fluctibus antra ibat ; eum vasti circum gens umida ponti 430 exsultans rorem late dispergit amarum.
Page 8 - ... esse apibus partem divinae mentis et haustus 220 aetherios dixere ; deum namque ire per omnes terrasque tractusque maris caelumque profundum ; hinc pecudes, armenta, viros, genus omne ferarum, quemque sibi tenues nascentem arcessere vitas ; scilicet hue reddi deinde ac resoluta referri omnia, nec morti esse locum, sed viva volare sideris in numerum atque alto succedere caelo.
Page 15 - Verum ubi correptum manibus vinclisque tenebis, 405 'Tum variae eludent species atque ora ferarum. 'Fiet enim subito sus horridus atraque tigris ' Squamosusque draco et fulva cervice leaena, 'Aut acrem flammae sonitum dabit atque ita vinclis 'Excidet, aut in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit. 410 'Sed quanto ille magis formas se vertet in omnes, 'Tam tu, nate, magis contende tenacia vincla, 'Donec talis erit mutato corpore, qualem 'Videris, incepto tegeret cum lumina somno.
Page 16 - Illa quidem, dum te fugeret per flumina praeceps, immanem ante pedes hydrum moritura puella servantem ripas alta non vidit in herba.
Page 22 - Where the etymology is not given, the word is of very uncertain or unknown origin. Such forms and meanings of words as do not belong to the text, are not inserted in the Vocabulary.