P. Vergili Maronis Opera: Virgil with an Introduction and NotesClarendon Press, 1892 |
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accus Achilles adeo adverbial Aeneas Aeneid Anchises animi apodosis Apollo arma atque Augustus best MSS called Catull clause constr construction Crown 8vo Cybele Damoetas dative death denotes Dido earth ECLOGUE edition enim Ennius epithet etiam expression favour gods Greek haec heaven Helenus hendiadys hiatus Homer honour idea Iliad imitation implied infin Introd ipse Italy Juno Jupiter Juturna king Latin Lucr Lucret Lucretius meaning Mezentius mihi olim Ovid Pallas passage perhaps phrase Plaut Plautus plur poem poet poetical probably quae quam quid quod reading reference Roman Rome Rutulians seems sense Servius shield ships spear subj suggested supposed synizesis temple tibi tmesis Trojan Troy Turnus ultro Venus verb viii vine Virgil Virgilian wind word καὶ
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Page 342 - But when the warrior dieth, His comrades in the war, With arms reversed and muffled drum, Follow his funeral car ; They show the banners taken, They tell his battles won, And after him lead his masterless steed, While peals the minute gun.
Page 323 - On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 370 - Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepare,) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air.
Page 366 - Who sate in the high places, and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day of June, That we saw their banners dance, and their cuirasses shine, And the Man of Blood was there, with his long essenced hair, And Astley, and Sir Marmaduke, and Rupert of the Rhine.
Page 14 - And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...
Page 245 - Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Page 246 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first be^ ing.
Page 353 - Et turn sicut equus qui de praesepibus fartus vincla suis magnis animis abrupit et inde fert sese campi per caerula laetaque prata celso pectore; saepe iubam quassat simul altam; spiritus ex anima calida spumas agit albas, (Ann.