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... others of historical allusion . One omission in par- ticular calls for a word of justification , namely , the omission of a large portion of the passage in the sixth book , where the heroes of the Rome that is X PREFACE.
... others of historical allusion . One omission in par- ticular calls for a word of justification , namely , the omission of a large portion of the passage in the sixth book , where the heroes of the Rome that is X PREFACE.
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Virgil H. H. Hardy. book , where the heroes of the Rome that is to be pass before the eyes of Aeneas . It is a passage of great beauty and of great importance in the general scheme of the poem . But it involves a wide know- ledge of ...
Virgil H. H. Hardy. book , where the heroes of the Rome that is to be pass before the eyes of Aeneas . It is a passage of great beauty and of great importance in the general scheme of the poem . But it involves a wide know- ledge of ...
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... Rome great . These tasks accomp- lished , the poet turned his thoughts to a loftier and more arduous task . As yet Rome possessed no great epic , no heroic narrative poem . It was this that Vir- gil sought to give her , and the last ten ...
... Rome great . These tasks accomp- lished , the poet turned his thoughts to a loftier and more arduous task . As yet Rome possessed no great epic , no heroic narrative poem . It was this that Vir- gil sought to give her , and the last ten ...
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... Rome was too far advanced in knowledge and culture to admit of the creation of simple and direct narrative poetry such as we find in Homer or in the sagas of our Teutonic forefathers . Though the fancy and in- vention of the early poet ...
... Rome was too far advanced in knowledge and culture to admit of the creation of simple and direct narrative poetry such as we find in Homer or in the sagas of our Teutonic forefathers . Though the fancy and in- vention of the early poet ...
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... Rome couched in hexameter verse . Noble fragments of Ennius survive , but enough also survives to show that , whatever Ennius ' merits as a poet , his epic as a whole was far from being a work of art . Other methods must be followed by ...
... Rome couched in hexameter verse . Noble fragments of Ennius survive , but enough also survives to show that , whatever Ennius ' merits as a poet , his epic as a whole was far from being a work of art . Other methods must be followed by ...
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Achates Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Aeolus aequora agmine alta Anchises Andromache Apollo Ardea arma armis Ascanius auras back bade battle caelo caelum called Cassandra circum city coniunx corpora Creusa cried Cybele dead death deus dictis Dido divom earth Elysium END OF BOOK epic fata fatur fell first found genitive genitor gods great Greek Haud heard heart Heaven hostem Iamque Ille Impression infelix ingens Iovis Italy Iuno Iuppiter Juno Jupiter king last Latin Latinus Latio Latium Lavinia lines literally litora long lumina made make Mezentius mihi Mnestheus moenia muros Mycenae Nate neque nequiquam nunc Omnibus once Pallas Paradise Lost pater pectore place poem purpose read reader Roman Rome Rutuli Rutulians sacrifice sanguine ships SHORTER sidera sine soon stood talia Tarchon tela tellus Teucri thee thou tibi time Troiae Trojans Troy Turnus urbem Venus vertice Virgil volnere volnus words
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Page 100 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore voltus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio, et surgentia sidera dicent : 85° tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento ; hae tibi erunt artes ; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.
Page 85 - Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno; Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis ; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 94 - Respicit Aeneas subito et sub rupe sinistra moenia lata videt triplici circumdata muro, quae rapidus flammis ambit torrentibus amnis, . 550 Tartareus Phlegethon, torquetque sonantia saxa.
Page 27 - Di, si qua est caelo pietas, quae talia curet, ' Persolvant grates dignas, et praemia reddant 'Debita. qui nati coram me cernere letum ' Fecisti, et patrios foedasti funere voltus. 'At non ille, satum quo te mentiris, Achilles 540 ' Talis in hoste fuit Priamo ; sed iura fidemque 'Supplicis erubuit, corpusque exsangue sepulcro ' Reddidit Hectoreum, meque in mea regna remisit...
Page 56 - Italiam ventis, pete regna per undas. spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt, supplicia hausurum scopulis et nomine Dido saepe vocaturum. sequar atris ignibus absens et, cum frigida mors anima seduxerit artus, omnibus umbra locis adero. dabis, improbe, poenas. audiam et haec manis veniet mihi fama sub imos.
Page 17 - O miseri, quae tanta insania, cives? creditis avectos hostis? aut ulla putatis dona carere dolis Danaum? sic notus Ulixes? Aut hoc inclusi ligno occultantur Achivi, 45 aut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros, inspectura domos venturaque desuper urbi, aut aliquis latet error; equo ne credite, Teucri.
Page 59 - 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 127 - Catonem. 670 haec inter tumidi late maris ibat imago aurea, sed fluctu spumabant caerula cano, et circum argento clari delphines in orbem aequora verrebant caudis aestumque secabant.
Page 58 - Talibus orabat, talesque miserrima fletus Fertque refertque soror. Sed nullis ille movetur Fletibus, aut voces ullas tractabilis audit; Fata obstant, placidasque viri deus obstruit aures.
Page 51 - Incipit; insequitur commixta grandine nimbus. Et Tyrii comites passim et Troiana iuventus Dardaniusque nepos Veneris diversa per agros Tecta metu petiere : ruunt de montibus amnes. Speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem 165 Deveniunt. Prima et Tellus et pronuba luno Dant signum : fulsere ignes, et conscius aether Conubiis, summoque ulularunt vertice Nymphae.