The Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil: With Notes, Excursus, Terms of Husbandry, and A Flora VirgilianaWhittaker and Company, 1847 - 396 pages |
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Page iv
... common friend , with his Osservazioni on the two Flo of Dr. Fée . I may therefore hope that my Flora w be found tolerably correct . I have added what I denominate Terms of Hu bandry , because it was necessary to describe the i plements ...
... common friend , with his Osservazioni on the two Flo of Dr. Fée . I may therefore hope that my Flora w be found tolerably correct . I have added what I denominate Terms of Hu bandry , because it was necessary to describe the i plements ...
Page ix
... common fate : nearly all our infor- mation respecting him is derived from a Life , purporting to be written by Donatus , a grammarian who flourished in the fourth century , and which , though it is probably founded on earlier and more ...
... common fate : nearly all our infor- mation respecting him is derived from a Life , purporting to be written by Donatus , a grammarian who flourished in the fourth century , and which , though it is probably founded on earlier and more ...
Page xxix
... common to her kind , deserted Gallus and accompanied some officer in that army . Gallus , who it would appear had a command in the army which Caesar was assembling in the south of Italy , to act against Sex . Pompeius , was much ...
... common to her kind , deserted Gallus and accompanied some officer in that army . Gallus , who it would appear had a command in the army which Caesar was assembling in the south of Italy , to act against Sex . Pompeius , was much ...
Page xl
... common in our own fields a gardens also ; and it may be worth noticing , that Ta in his Rime constantly joins the viola with the gig and the ligustro , terming it candida , bianca , pallida : Ove son bianchi gigli Colle bianche viole E ...
... common in our own fields a gardens also ; and it may be worth noticing , that Ta in his Rime constantly joins the viola with the gig and the ligustro , terming it candida , bianca , pallida : Ove son bianchi gigli Colle bianche viole E ...
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... common Lucretian phrase . With respect to adeo , where ad is apparently joined with an abl . we may notice the fol- lowing observation of Priscian ( De xii . vers . Aen . xii . 200 ) : " Solent componi ablativi cum praepositionibus quae ...
... common Lucretian phrase . With respect to adeo , where ad is apparently joined with an abl . we may notice the fol- lowing observation of Priscian ( De xii . vers . Aen . xii . 200 ) : " Solent componi ablativi cum praepositionibus quae ...
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amor ancients Apollo atque bucolic Caesar called canibus carmina circum Colum Columella corn Cornelius Gallus Corydon cura Damoetas Daphnis eclogue Ennius etiam fetus flumina Forbiger Gallus Geor Georgics give Greek haec herbas Hesiod Heyne Hinc Horace horses illa inter Iollas ipsa ipse Italy Jahn kind land Latin Lucretius Mantua Martyn means Menalcas mihi Mopsus Mythology neque nunc observe omnes Omnia Ovid pecori perhaps plants Plin Pliny plough poem poet Pollio primum probably quae quam quid quis quod quoque Roman Rome saepe says seems segetes sense Servius sheep shepherd silvae sing sunt suppose tamen tantum term terrae Theocritus Thessaly tibi Tityrus trees ulmos umbra usual Varro venit verb verse viii vines Virgil Voss Wagner word δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸ τὸν ὡς
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Page 55 - Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.
Page 20 - 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 11 - 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 7 - Dardaniusque Paris. Pallas, quas condidit arces, Ipsa colat ; nobis placeant ante omnia silvae. Torva leaena lupum sequitur; lupus ipse capellam ; Florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella; Te Corydon, o Alexi : trahit sua quemque voluptas.
Page 44 - Qui nunc extremis Asiae jam victor in oris Imbellem avertis Romanis arcibus Indum. Salve, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus, Magna virum ; tibi res antiquae laudis et artis Ingredior, sanctos ausus recludere fontes, ns Ascraeumque cano Romana per oppida carmen.
Page 10 - Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites. Et vitula tu dignus et hic, et quisquis amores aut metuet dulces, aut experietur amaros.
Page 53 - ... ipse dies agitat festos fususque per herbam, ignis ubi in medio et socii cratera coronant, te libans, Lenaee, vocat, pecorisque magistris velocis iaculi certamina ponit in ulmo, 530 corporaque agresti nudant praedura palaestrae.
Page 6 - Thestylis et rapido fessis messoribus aestu 10 allia serpyllumque herbas contundit olentes ; at mecum raucis, tua dum vestigia lustro, sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadis. nonne fuit satius, tristes Amaryllidis iras atque superba pati fastidia ? nonne Menalcan, quamvis ille niger, quamvis tu candidus esses ? o formose puer, nimium ne crede colori ; alba ligustra cadunt, vaccinia nigra leguntur.
Page 29 - ... alternis idem tonsas cessare novales, et segnem patiere situ durescere campum ; aut ibi flava seres mutato sidere farra, unde prius laetum siliqua quassante legumen aut tenuis fetus viciae tristisque lupini sustuleris fragiles calamos silvamque sonantem.
Page 44 - An memorem portus Lucrinoque addita claustra Atque indignatum magnis stridoribus aequor, Julia qua ponto longe sonat unda refuso Tyrrhenusque fretis immittitur aestus Avernis ? Haec eadem argenti rivos aerisque metalla 165 Ostendit venis, atque auro plurima fluxit.