Opera, Or The Works of Virgil: With Copious Notes, Mythological, Biographical, Etc., in EnglishPratt, Woodford & Company, 1846 - 615 pages |
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... with much labour and care . I have no doubt that a work of this kind would be of essential advantage to classical students , especially to those who have not made considerable progress in the Latin language , iv RECOMMENDATIONS .
... with much labour and care . I have no doubt that a work of this kind would be of essential advantage to classical students , especially to those who have not made considerable progress in the Latin language , iv RECOMMENDATIONS .
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... kind of writing . All succeeding poets have taken him as their model , and found the surest way to success to be , to copy his beauties . It is true , he was much indebted to Theocritus , who was the first pastoral writer of eminence ...
... kind of writing . All succeeding poets have taken him as their model , and found the surest way to success to be , to copy his beauties . It is true , he was much indebted to Theocritus , who was the first pastoral writer of eminence ...
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... kind in view ; but whether it was , what the Eneid afterwards proved to be , is uncertain . The subject of the poem is the removal of a colony of Trojans from Asia Minor , under the conduct of Æneas , and their settlement in Italy . The ...
... kind in view ; but whether it was , what the Eneid afterwards proved to be , is uncertain . The subject of the poem is the removal of a colony of Trojans from Asia Minor , under the conduct of Æneas , and their settlement in Italy . The ...
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... kind of poetry possess any pe- culiar charms ? Is it difficult in execution ? At what age did he begin this part of his works ? In what year of Rome ? How many years did he spend in writing Who among the Greeks was the first pas- the ...
... kind of poetry possess any pe- culiar charms ? Is it difficult in execution ? At what age did he begin this part of his works ? In what year of Rome ? How many years did he spend in writing Who among the Greeks was the first pas- the ...
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... kind , whether animate or 15 22 25 30 inanimate . We have introduced it into our language without any variation . Teneros fœtus ovium , simply , our lambs . 23. Sic canibus , & c . This passage Ser- vius thus explains : I thought before ...
... kind , whether animate or 15 22 25 30 inanimate . We have introduced it into our language without any variation . Teneros fœtus ovium , simply , our lambs . 23. Sic canibus , & c . This passage Ser- vius thus explains : I thought before ...
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Æneas Æneid æquor amor Anchises animis animos antè Apollo arma armis Ascanius atque auro Beotia called caput circùm cœlo contrà cùm Dardanus Davidson death Deûm Dido Eneas erat Ergò etiam fata ferro fortuna genus Geor gods Greeks hæc Haud Hence Heyne reads Hinc hunc illa ille illi Infelix ingens inter Intereà ipsa ipse Italy Jamque Juno Jupiter Juturna king Latinus litora longè magno manu meaning meton Mezentius mihi Mnestheus Multa Namque neque NOTES numina nunc omnes omnia omnis pater poet prælia Priam primùm procul properly quæ quàm Quid quis quod river Romans Ruæus says Rumus Rutuli sæpe says Heyne says Ruæus sense Servius signifies slain sunt super supra synec tantùm tela terga terras Teucri Thrace tibi Trapp Trojans Troy Turnus urbe urbem Valpy Venus verb verò Virgil word
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Page 43 - Maenalios mecum, mea tibia, versus, saevus Amor docuit natorum sanguine matrem commaculare manus ; crudelis tu quoque, mater : crudelis mater magis, an puer improbus ille? improbus ille puer ; crudelis tu quoque, mater.
Page 358 - At, Phoebi nondum patiens, immanis in antro bacchatur vates, magnum si pectore possit excussisse deum ; tanto magis ille fatigat os rabidum, fera corda domans, fingitque premendo.
Page 154 - Quis et me, inquit, miseram, et te perdidit, Orpheu? Quis tantus furor? en iterum crudelia retro 495 fata vocant, conditque natantia lumina somnus. lamque vale. Feror ingenti circumdata nocte, invalidasque tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas!
Page 225 - Non sic, aggeribus ruptis cum spumeus amnis Exiit, oppositasque evicit gurgite moles, Fertur in arva furens cumulo, camposque per omnes Cum stabulis armenta trahit.
Page 372 - Troi'us heros ut primum iuxta stetit adgnovitque per umbras obscuram, qualem primo qui surgere mense aut videt, aut vidisse putat per nubila lunam, demisit lacrimas, dulcique adfatus amore est : 455 ' Infelix Dido, verus mihi nuntius ergo venerat exstinctam, ferroque extrema secutam?
Page 211 - ... bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis. ille simul manibus tendit divellere nodos, 220 perfusus sanie vittas atroque veneno, clamores simul horrendos ad sidera tollit : quales mugitus, fugit cum saucius aram taurus, et incertam excussit cervice securim.
Page 109 - Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius et tenera praetexit harundine ripas.
Page 21 - At tibi prima, puer, nullo munuscula cultu errantes hederas passim cum baccare tellus mixtaque ridenti colocasia fundet acantho. 20 Ipsae lacte domum referent distenta capellae ubera, nec magnos metuent armenta leones.
Page 224 - ... apparet domus intus, et atria longa patescunt ; apparent Priami et veterum penetralia regum, armatosque vident stantes in limine primo.
Page 360 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hic labor est.