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Tiberina ostia : again the general expression is followed by the more specific , as in 2. longe : modifying contra , facing Italy far away , Carthage and Rome being on opposite shores of the great Mediterranean Sea .
Tiberina ostia : again the general expression is followed by the more specific , as in 2. longe : modifying contra , facing Italy far away , Carthage and Rome being on opposite shores of the great Mediterranean Sea .
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A more natural construction would have been vino cadoș onerarat ' had laden the jars with wine , ' but poetry favors unusual turns of expression . ( In view of the meaning of onerare , it is unnatural to take cadis as a dative . ) ...
A more natural construction would have been vino cadoș onerarat ' had laden the jars with wine , ' but poetry favors unusual turns of expression . ( In view of the meaning of onerare , it is unnatural to take cadis as a dative . ) ...
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This expression of absolute despair is , of course , utterly at variance with Roman sentiment . • 647. invisus divis : explained by ex quo igni . annos de- moror : I stay the years ( in their flight ) , a very poetic expression .
This expression of absolute despair is , of course , utterly at variance with Roman sentiment . • 647. invisus divis : explained by ex quo igni . annos de- moror : I stay the years ( in their flight ) , a very poetic expression .
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| Title | Aeneid Books I-VI The students' series of Latin classics |
| Author | Virgil |
| Editors | Henry Rushton Fairclough, Seldon Lester Brown |
| Publisher | Sanborn, 1936 |
| Length | 655 pages |
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