Virgil's Aeneid: books I-XIIAmerican Book Company, 1902 - 342 pages "Editions and helpful books": p. 26-28. |
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... Italy . The education of the future poet appears to have been commenced at Cremona , from whence , on assuming the toga virilis , in his sixteenth year , he was transferred to the charge of new teachers at Mediolanum ( Milan ) . After ...
... Italy . The education of the future poet appears to have been commenced at Cremona , from whence , on assuming the toga virilis , in his sixteenth year , he was transferred to the charge of new teachers at Mediolanum ( Milan ) . After ...
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... Italian cities , with the district of country pertaining to each . The cities allotted in this manner were those which had espoused the side of Brutus . For this the unhappy occupants of the adjacent country were forced to give up their ...
... Italian cities , with the district of country pertaining to each . The cities allotted in this manner were those which had espoused the side of Brutus . For this the unhappy occupants of the adjacent country were forced to give up their ...
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... Italians to their primitive but long - neglected pursuit of agriculture . In point of versification this is the most finished of the works of the poet , and , indeed , as Addison remarks , it may be regarded as in this respect the most ...
... Italians to their primitive but long - neglected pursuit of agriculture . In point of versification this is the most finished of the works of the poet , and , indeed , as Addison remarks , it may be regarded as in this respect the most ...
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... Italy . Virgil was easily persuaded by his friend and patron to return with him imme- diately to Rome , but he was destined never again to see the capital city . His malady had continually increased during the voyage , and a few days ...
... Italy . Virgil was easily persuaded by his friend and patron to return with him imme- diately to Rome , but he was destined never again to see the capital city . His malady had continually increased during the voyage , and a few days ...
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... Italian masters by the very fact that these unfinished parts show us the hand , as it were , still holding the chisel , and in the act of creation . Virgil was an imitator . He borrowed without stint from Homer , from Apollonius , from ...
... Italian masters by the very fact that these unfinished parts show us the hand , as it were , still holding the chisel , and in the act of creation . Virgil was an imitator . He borrowed without stint from Homer , from Apollonius , from ...
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ablative ablative absolute Aeneas Aeneid aequis aequore alta Anchises animis Apollo arma armis ārum Ascanius atque ātus ātus sum auras āvī bello caelo caelum caput circum Creüsa cursu Dardanus dative dextra dictis Dido dissyllable entis equos fata ferro freq genitive genus Greek haec Haud hinc Hunc Iamque illa ille ingens inter ipse itus Juno Jupiter king Latin Latinus Latium litora manus medio meton Mezentius mihi Mnestheus moenia multa neque nunc omnes omnia omnis ōnis ōris ōrum Pallas pater pectore Priam primum procul pron pugnae quae quam Quid quis quod Roman Rutuli Rutulian sanguine sẽ ships slain subst super synaeresis tela terras Teucri tibi tmesis Trojan Troy Turnus ultro unda urbe urbem Venus videt Virgil
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Page 99 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 177 - Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent : Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento ; Hae tibi erunt artes ; pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.
Page 175 - Augustus Caesar, Divi genus, aurea condet saecula qui rursus Latio, regnata per arva Saturno quondam...
Page 172 - Lethaeumque domos placidas qui praenatat amnem. hunc circum innumerae gentes populique volabant ; ac velut in pratis ubi apes aestate serena floribus insidunt variis, et candida circum lilia funduntur ; strepit omnis murmure campus.
Page 168 - Tum Tartarus ipse bis patet in praeceps tantum tenditque sub umbras, quantus ad aetherium caeli suspectus Olympum. Hie genus antiquum Terrae, Titania pubes, 580 fulmine deiecti fundo volvuntur in imo. ' Hie et Aloidas geminos immania vidi corpora, qui manibus magnum rescindere caelum adgressi, superisque lovem detrudere regnis.
Page 18 - And art thou then that Virgil, that well-spring, From which such copious floods of eloquence Have issued?" I with front abash'd replied. "Glory and light of all the tuneful train! May it avail me, that I long with zeal Have sought thy volume, and with love immense Have conn'd it o'er. My master thou, and guide! Thou he from whom alone I have derived That style, which for its beauty into fame Exalts me. See the beast, from whom I fled. O save me from her, thou illustrious sage! For every vein and...
Page 160 - Quam multa in silvis autumni frigore primo Lapsa cadunt folia, aut ad terram gurgite ab alto 310 Quam multae glomerantur aves, ubi frigidus annus Trans pontum fugat et terris immittit apricis.
Page 165 - ... egere suis ; nee credere quivi hunc tantum tibi me discessu ferre dolorem. siste gradum, teque aspectu ne subtrahe nostro. quem fugis ? extremum fato, quod te adloquor, hoc est.
Page 36 - Libyae vertuntur ad oras. est in secessu longo locus: insula portum 160 efficit obiectu laterum, quibus omnis ab alto frangitur inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos.
Page 222 - Mezentius umquam huic capiti insultans tot ferro saeva dedisset 570 funera, tam multis viduasset civibus urbem. at vos, o superi, et divum tu maxima rector luppiter, Arcadii, quaeso, miserescite regis et patrias audite preces : si numina vestra incolumem Pallanta mihi, si fata reservant, 575 si visurus eum vivo et venturus in unum : vitam oro, patior quemvis durare laborem. sin aliquem infandum casum, Fortuna, minaris, nunc, nunc o liceat crudelem abrumpere vitam, dum curae ambiguae, dum spes incerta...