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... readings have been introduced from the latest and best authorities . recent and excellent edition of Heyne , by Wagner , has been particularly followed ; and the Editor gladly avails himself of the opportunity of making this noble work ...
... readings have been introduced from the latest and best authorities . recent and excellent edition of Heyne , by Wagner , has been particularly followed ; and the Editor gladly avails himself of the opportunity of making this noble work ...
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... reading the poem so far as it had been carried ; and , in the year 729 , while absent from Rome on a military expedition against the Cantabrians , he wrote to the author from the extremity of his empire , entreating him to be allowed a ...
... reading the poem so far as it had been carried ; and , in the year 729 , while absent from Rome on a military expedition against the Cantabrians , he wrote to the author from the extremity of his empire , entreating him to be allowed a ...
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... reader ) existed among the Greeks ; and in the Odyssey , we feel , as it were , the hero's desire of returning to his native country . But both these ruling principles of action are wanting in the Æneid , where the Trojans rather ...
... reader ) existed among the Greeks ; and in the Odyssey , we feel , as it were , the hero's desire of returning to his native country . But both these ruling principles of action are wanting in the Æneid , where the Trojans rather ...
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... readers , and not very precisely ascertained . Hence , so far was the violence offered to chronology from revolting his country- men , that Ovid , who was so knowing in ancient histories and fables , wrote an heroic epistle as addressed ...
... readers , and not very precisely ascertained . Hence , so far was the violence offered to chronology from revolting his country- men , that Ovid , who was so knowing in ancient histories and fables , wrote an heroic epistle as addressed ...
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... reader to know besides is thrown into episode and narration ; by which management the integrity and roundness of the fable are more perfectly preserved ; and from the shorter limits of the action , its impression is the more forcible ...
... reader to know besides is thrown into episode and narration ; by which management the integrity and roundness of the fable are more perfectly preserved ; and from the shorter limits of the action , its impression is the more forcible ...
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according Æneas æquor agmina Alluding allusion alto Anchises ancient animis animo Apollo arma armis Ascanius atque Augustus auras auro bello caput castra circum cœlo Compare line Consult note Creüsa cursu Dardanus deûm dextrâ dictis Dido divûm Eneas equi equivalent equos fata fatis ferro fortuna genus Greek hæc Haud Helenus Hence Heyne Hinc Homer Hunc ignes illa Ille illi ingens inter interea ipse Italy Jamque Juno Jupiter juventus Latin Latinus Latium limina Literally litora magno manu medio Mezentius mihi Mnestheus mœnia Multa muros neque numina nunc Observe the force omnes omnia omnis pater pectore poet poetic Priam primum procul quæ quam Quid quis quod quum refers Roman Rutuli sanguine seqq Servius sese sidera super Supply talia tela terga Teucri thee thou tibi Trojans Troy Turnus ultro unto urbem urbes Virgil Wagner
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