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The questions following the notes at the end of each book will be found to demand the exercise of many powers be- 1 Translations recommended are : The Iliad of Homer : translated into blank verse , by William Cullen Bryant ( Houghton ...
The questions following the notes at the end of each book will be found to demand the exercise of many powers be- 1 Translations recommended are : The Iliad of Homer : translated into blank verse , by William Cullen Bryant ( Houghton ...
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A prepon- derance of dactyls gives to the verse a comparatively light and rapid movement ; one of spondees ... Contrast , for example , the fol- lowing verses : ( a ) fert umero gradiensque deas supereminet omnis ( I. 501 ) ...
A prepon- derance of dactyls gives to the verse a comparatively light and rapid movement ; one of spondees ... Contrast , for example , the fol- lowing verses : ( a ) fert umero gradiensque deas supereminet omnis ( I. 501 ) ...
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inadmissible in the verse . direxti = direxisti . Paris , aided by Apollo , slew Achilles with an arrow , as it is foretold in the Iliad ( XXII . 358 ff . ) . 58. magnas obeuntia terras tot maria intravi : so many seas that skirt mighty ...
inadmissible in the verse . direxti = direxisti . Paris , aided by Apollo , slew Achilles with an arrow , as it is foretold in the Iliad ( XXII . 358 ff . ) . 58. magnas obeuntia terras tot maria intravi : so many seas that skirt mighty ...
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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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