Aeneid I-VIWhittaker & Company, 1884 |
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Page ix
... question : we shall learn the real value of our newly collated MSS . better as we become used to them , and there may be a danger of accepting novelties of reading simply as novelties - a danger which I seem to see exemplified in Rib ...
... question : we shall learn the real value of our newly collated MSS . better as we become used to them , and there may be a danger of accepting novelties of reading simply as novelties - a danger which I seem to see exemplified in Rib ...
Page xix
... question the appropriateness of the special praise usually given to Virgil's agricultural poetry , and conceded , though with more hesitation , to his pastoral compositions , as if the true bent of his mind were to be found in his ...
... question the appropriateness of the special praise usually given to Virgil's agricultural poetry , and conceded , though with more hesitation , to his pastoral compositions , as if the true bent of his mind were to be found in his ...
Page xxiii
... question , and may well occupy us somewhat longer . The production of the Aeneid was part of that general burst of literary enthusiasm which distinguishes the Augustan period . Roman literature had always been imitative ; Pacuvius and ...
... question , and may well occupy us somewhat longer . The production of the Aeneid was part of that general burst of literary enthusiasm which distinguishes the Augustan period . Roman literature had always been imitative ; Pacuvius and ...
Page xxxi
... question whether it really points to a separate play ; of the Sinon , three unimportant words . Great , how- ever , as our losses are , we need not doubt that our gains are greater . That which constitutes the main value of Greek ...
... question whether it really points to a separate play ; of the Sinon , three unimportant words . Great , how- ever , as our losses are , we need not doubt that our gains are greater . That which constitutes the main value of Greek ...
Page xxxv
... question is one rather of conjecture and inference than of direct observation . There can be no doubt , however , that the changes which the Homeric characters sustained in passing through the hands of the dramatists , as well as in the ...
... question is one rather of conjecture and inference than of direct observation . There can be no doubt , however , that the changes which the Homeric characters sustained in passing through the hands of the dramatists , as well as in the ...
Common terms and phrases
Aeneas Aeneid aequora Aesch Anchises animi Apoll Apollo appears arma Ascanius atque auras caelum Carthage Catull Cerda circum comp Creusa Crown 8vo Dardanus Deiphobus Dict Dido Dido's Donatus doubtless edition enim Ennius epithet explained expression fata Fcap foll Forb Forc fragm give Gossrau Greek haec Heins Helenus Henry Heyne Heyne remarks hinc Homeric imitation inter ipse Latin litora Livy Lucr manu mean mentioned mihi Mnestheus moenia notion numine nunc omnis parallel passage pater perhaps Pierius poet poetical Priam Priscian probably quae quam quid quod quoted reading reference Ribbeck rightly Roman says seems sense Serv Servius Sibyl Small post 8vo story suppose terra thinks tibi tion Translated Troia Trojans Troy Ulysses urbem Varro Venus Virg Virg.'s Virgil vols Wagn words Wund δὲ καὶ τε
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Page 520 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitât molem, et magno se corpore miscet 'Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum 'Et quae marmóreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
Page 288 - Perfide; sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens 'Caucasus, Hyrcanaeque admorunt ubera tigres. 'Nam quid dissimulo ? aut quae me ad maiora reservo ? 'Num fletu ingemuit nostro?
Page 544 - Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris ; altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, 895 sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes...
Page 112 - Sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora. Diffugimus visu exsangues. Illi agmine certo Laocoonta petunt, et primum parva duorum Corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque Implicat, et miseros morsu depascitur artus. Post ipsum, auxilio subeuntem ac tela ferentem, Corripiunt, spirisque ligant ingentibus: et jam Bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum Terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Page xl - Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession of so many beauties of speech, it were desirable to know. That he gleaned from authors. obscure as well as eminent, what he thought brilliant or useful, and preserved it all in a regular collection...
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Page 307 - 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, 525 quaeque lacus late liquidos, quaeque aspera dumis rura tenent, somno positae sub nocte silenti [lenibant curas, et corda oblita laborum].