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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... former year ; for the place in which he makes men- tion of his patron ( vv . 84–89 ) , seems to express the warmth of recent gratitude . In this poem , probably to gratify Pollio , who was of a satirical turn , he made a wanton attack ...
... former year ; for the place in which he makes men- tion of his patron ( vv . 84–89 ) , seems to express the warmth of recent gratitude . In this poem , probably to gratify Pollio , who was of a satirical turn , he made a wanton attack ...
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... former was used of things which spread naturally , as nares , arbor , crux ; the latter , of such as opened and shut , as ostium , oculi . Statius seems not to have known this distinction , for he says ( Theb . i . 588 ) , patulo caelum ...
... former was used of things which spread naturally , as nares , arbor , crux ; the latter , of such as opened and shut , as ostium , oculi . Statius seems not to have known this distinction , for he says ( Theb . i . 588 ) , patulo caelum ...
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... former is indicated . 80-84 . Meliboeus now turns to go away and pursue his melancholy journey , but Tityrus invites him to stop and spend the night with him . - poteras , you might , i . e . you have the power . There is no doubt , etc ...
... former is indicated . 80-84 . Meliboeus now turns to go away and pursue his melancholy journey , but Tityrus invites him to stop and spend the night with him . - poteras , you might , i . e . you have the power . There is no doubt , etc ...
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... former occupa- tion . To modern ideas this may appear a strange kind of poetic economy ; but , as we shall show in our Observations on the following eclogue , the ancients had hardly any peasantry but slaves , and such are all the ...
... former occupa- tion . To modern ideas this may appear a strange kind of poetic economy ; but , as we shall show in our Observations on the following eclogue , the ancients had hardly any peasantry but slaves , and such are all the ...
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... former , we believe , do not usually grow in the plain ; and Castelvetro ( see Observations on Ec . vii . ) asserts positively that they do not grow in the country round Mantua , where also he observes there are no goats kept . With ...
... former , we believe , do not usually grow in the plain ; and Castelvetro ( see Observations on Ec . vii . ) asserts positively that they do not grow in the country round Mantua , where also he observes there are no goats kept . With ...
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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.