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Page xiv
... . The salient feature in a Pastoral is that it presents primarily a scene in the life of shepherds or countrymen . Whatever story or theme is to be expanded must be set in a background of pastoral life xiv INTRODUCTION .
... . The salient feature in a Pastoral is that it presents primarily a scene in the life of shepherds or countrymen . Whatever story or theme is to be expanded must be set in a background of pastoral life xiv INTRODUCTION .
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... present mortals is to be put upon the earth . Saturnia regna ] In the golden age Saturn was still king of heaven , and Jupiter had not yet replaced him . Saturnus ( identified with the Greek Cronos ) is the ancient Italian god , whose ...
... present mortals is to be put upon the earth . Saturnia regna ] In the golden age Saturn was still king of heaven , and Jupiter had not yet replaced him . Saturnus ( identified with the Greek Cronos ) is the ancient Italian god , whose ...
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... present . 32. fermento ] some fermented liquor made from corn more or less like our beer . Tacitus tells us that the Germans have for drink humor ex hordeo et frumento in quandam similitudinem vini corruptus [ Germ . 23 ] . The dwellers ...
... present . 32. fermento ] some fermented liquor made from corn more or less like our beer . Tacitus tells us that the Germans have for drink humor ex hordeo et frumento in quandam similitudinem vini corruptus [ Germ . 23 ] . The dwellers ...
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... present itself to them . ' Vergil is thinking of various outbreaks of war between Rome and Carthage which happened as soon as Carthage recovered her forces after a previous war . · 45. undas ] sc . contrarias . 46. ipsique nepotesque ...
... present itself to them . ' Vergil is thinking of various outbreaks of war between Rome and Carthage which happened as soon as Carthage recovered her forces after a previous war . · 45. undas ] sc . contrarias . 46. ipsique nepotesque ...
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... present tense stat . The objection to take aspice ut remark how ' is that in this sense ut requires the subjunctive . 4. Ovid ( F. 1 , 156 ) proque domo longis spelunca recessibus 52 ingens Abdita vix ipsis invenienda feris . 5 ...
... present tense stat . The objection to take aspice ut remark how ' is that in this sense ut requires the subjunctive . 4. Ovid ( F. 1 , 156 ) proque domo longis spelunca recessibus 52 ingens Abdita vix ipsis invenienda feris . 5 ...
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Page 88 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page xvi - Musae, paulo maiora canamus ! non omnes arbusta iuvant humilesque myricae ; si canimus silvas, silvae sint consule dignae. ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas ; magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna ; iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.
Page 14 - Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 80 - Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie; Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: Ay me! I fondly dream! Had ye been there, for what could that have done?
Page 14 - Musae, 475 quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore, accipiant caelique vias et sidera monstrent, defectus solis varios lunaeque labores; unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant obicibus ruptis rursusque in se ipsa residant, 480 quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
Page 30 - ... bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Page 1 - Saturnia regna; iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto . tu modo nascenti puero , quo ferrea primum desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo , casta fave Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo.
Page 11 - ... rapit immensos orbis per humum neque tanto squameus in spiram tractu se colligit anguis. adde tot egregias urbes operumque laborem, 155 tot congesta manu praeruptis oppida saxis fluminaque antiquos subterlabentia muros. an mare, quod supra, memorem, quodque adluit infra?
Page 43 - Continuo auditae voces, vagitus et ingens, Infantumque animae flentes in limine primo, Quos dulcis vitae exsortes et ab ubere raptos Abstulit atra dies et funere mersit acerbo.
Page 29 - Achivi 45 aut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros inspectura domos venturaque desuper urbi, aut aliquis latet error: equo ne credite, Teucri: quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.