AEneid: With Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary, Books 1-6B.H. Sanborn & Company, 1908 |
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... lines , the personal introduc- tion to the Aeneid . This is certainly out of keep- ing with epic tone , drawing the attention as it does to the poet rather than to his lofty theme , though not unlike the closing lines of the Georgics ...
... lines , the personal introduc- tion to the Aeneid . This is certainly out of keep- ing with epic tone , drawing the attention as it does to the poet rather than to his lofty theme , though not unlike the closing lines of the Georgics ...
Page xxviii
... lines , which he jestingly declared were in- serted as props to support the structure , until the solid columns arrived . " During the composition , Virgil on cer- tain occasions read his work to others , though not often , generally ...
... lines , which he jestingly declared were in- serted as props to support the structure , until the solid columns arrived . " During the composition , Virgil on cer- tain occasions read his work to others , though not often , generally ...
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... lines , see Introd . § 16. They are imitated by Milton in the opening of Paradise Regained , by Spenser , Faerie Queene 1 , 1 , and by Tasso , Jerusalem Delivered 1 , 1 . modulatus : sc . sum , tuned my song . The line refers to the ...
... lines , see Introd . § 16. They are imitated by Milton in the opening of Paradise Regained , by Spenser , Faerie Queene 1 , 1 , and by Tasso , Jerusalem Delivered 1 , 1 . modulatus : sc . sum , tuned my song . The line refers to the ...
Page 188
... Lines 1-7 . THE POET'S THEME . The poem is an epic of war ( arma ) , and its hero ( virum ) is a Trojan , who ... line 92. primus : first . According to tradi- tion , Antenor had already founded Patavium ( Padua ) in Cisalpine Gaul ...
... Lines 1-7 . THE POET'S THEME . The poem is an epic of war ( arma ) , and its hero ( virum ) is a Trojan , who ... line 92. primus : first . According to tradi- tion , Antenor had already founded Patavium ( Padua ) in Cisalpine Gaul ...
Page 189
... line 3 , emphasizing the thought ; the rhetorical repetition , called anaphora , in multum ... multa ; and the abundance of connectives in lines 3 and 5 , suggesting an ... Lines 8-11 . INVOCATION OF THE MUSE . This invocation BOOK I 189.
... line 3 , emphasizing the thought ; the rhetorical repetition , called anaphora , in multum ... multa ; and the abundance of connectives in lines 3 and 5 , suggesting an ... Lines 8-11 . INVOCATION OF THE MUSE . This invocation BOOK I 189.
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ablative ablative absolute Achilles Aeneas Aeneid aequor alliteration anaphora Anchises Apollo āre arma Ascanius asyndeton atque Augustus caelo caelum Carthage circum clause Creusa cura cursus dactyls dative death diaeresis Dido Dido's divum emphatic expression fata genitive genus Georgics gods Greek haec haud Helenus hinc Homer Iamque Iliad illa inter ipse īre Italiam Italy itus Juno Jupiter king Latium limina Lines literally litora Lower World magna manus metonymy mihi Mnestheus moenia multa nunc omnia omnis onomatopoetic ōris ōrum passage pater pectore poet poetical polysyndeton Priam primum quae quam quibus quid quis quod Roman Rome sail Sicily sidera spondaic spondaic rhythm spondees subjunctive subst super talia tantum terras tibi tion Troia Trojan Troy unda urbe urbem Venus verb verse Virgil viri virum word
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Page 482 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 274 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 484 - And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 174 - Venisti tandem, tuaque exspectata parenti " Vicit iter durum pietas ? datur ora tueri, " Nate, tua, et notas audire et reddere voces ? " Sic equidem ducebam animo' rebarque futurum, 690 " Tempora dinumerans, nee me mea cura fefellit. " Quas ego te terras et quanta per aequora vectum " Accipio ! quantis jactatum, nate, periclis ! " Quam metui, ne quid Libyae tibi regna nocerent ! " Ille autem : " Tua me, genitor, tua tristis imago, 695 " Saepius occurrens, haec limina tendere adegit.
Page 455 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate : Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep ; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream ; fierce Phlegethon, 580 Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page 456 - Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. 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 489 - Of all that is most beauteous — imaged there In happier beauty ; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams ; Climes which the Sun, who sheds the brightest day Earth knows, is all unworthy to survey. Yet there the Soul shall enter which hath earned That privilege by virtue
Page 106 - ... nox erat, et placidum carpebant fessa soporem corpora per terras, silvaeque et saeva quierant aequora, cum medio volvuntur sidera lapsu, cum tacet omnis ager, pecudes, pictaeque volucres, quaeque lacus late liquidos, quaeque aspera dumis rura tenent, somno positae sub nocte silenti.
Page 104 - ... in somnis ferus Aeneas, semperque relinqui sola sibi, semper longam incomitata videtur ire viam et Tyrios deserta quaerere terra, Eumenidum veluti demens videt agmina Pentheus et solem geminum et duplices se ostendere Thebas, 470 aut Agamemnonius scaenis agitatus Orestes, armatam facibus matrem et serpentibus atris cum fugit ultricesque sedent in limine Dirae.
Page lx - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...