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... Greek root , but to roots or kindred forms of words occurring in the cognate languages of the great Indo - Germanic family This feature , which distinguishes the present Dictionary from all others , can- not fail to awaken the learner ...
... Greek root , but to roots or kindred forms of words occurring in the cognate languages of the great Indo - Germanic family This feature , which distinguishes the present Dictionary from all others , can- not fail to awaken the learner ...
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... Greek under Parthenius , a native of Nicaea , in Bithynia , one of whose prose works has come down to us , and who , as a writer of poetry , was a great favourite of the noble Romans of his time . It seems certain that he enjoyed at ...
... Greek under Parthenius , a native of Nicaea , in Bithynia , one of whose prose works has come down to us , and who , as a writer of poetry , was a great favourite of the noble Romans of his time . It seems certain that he enjoyed at ...
Page vii
... Greek poem on the same snb- ject by his teacher Parthenius ) is named from a kind of salad , the concoction of which , along with other rustic in - door opera- tions , preparatory for going to out - door work , is the subject of the ...
... Greek poem on the same snb- ject by his teacher Parthenius ) is named from a kind of salad , the concoction of which , along with other rustic in - door opera- tions , preparatory for going to out - door work , is the subject of the ...
Page xvii
... Greek - the very highest and most desirable as an introduction . That he had been introduced into the schools of Rome as early as the age of Augustus , we learn from Suetonius . And the practice continued till a late period , as we find ...
... Greek - the very highest and most desirable as an introduction . That he had been introduced into the schools of Rome as early as the age of Augustus , we learn from Suetonius . And the practice continued till a late period , as we find ...
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... Greek literature - naturally interested him in the writings of Theocritus , who wrote in Greek verse of the employments of the shepherd . His first thought seems to have been to content himself with an imitation of his master , seeking ...
... Greek literature - naturally interested him in the writings of Theocritus , who wrote in Greek verse of the employments of the shepherd . His first thought seems to have been to content himself with an imitation of his master , seeking ...
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according accusative Achates Achilles Aeneas aequora agmina allusion alta alto Anchises anguis Apollo Ardea arma armis arva Ascanius auras auris Aurunci Baccho Bacchus book called circum coelo coelum Compare conjunx construction country death described deus Dido divom Eclogue Epirus equivalent especially fata father ferro first flumina force generally gods great Greek Haud hence Hercules Hinc ille infelix ingens interea Italy Jamque Juno Jupiter king Latio Latium Lavinia line litora Mantua mentioned mihi moenia mountain name neque nequidquam nunc Octavianus omnibus omnis passage pater pectore place present probably proelia read referring regna river Roman Rutuli sacred same sanguine saxa See Aen See at Ecl See Ecl See Georg See Zumpt seems sense sese sidera silvis similar sine subject super taken Tarchon tela tellus terra Teucri Teucros three tibi time town Troja Trojae Trojans Troy Turnus urbem used Venus vertice Virgil work
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Page 89 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 267 - ... vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae, pallentesque habitant Morbi, tristisque Senectus, 275 et Metus, et malesuada Fames, ac turpis Egestas, terribiles visu formae, Letumque, Labosque ; turn consanguineus Leti Sopor, et mala mentis Gaudia, mortiferumque adverso in limine Bellum, ferreique Eumenidum thalami, et Discordia demens, 280 vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis.
Page 31 - Dardaniusque Paris. Pallas quas condidit arces ipsa colat : nobis placeant ante omnia silvae. Torva leaena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam, florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella, te Corydon, o Alexi : trahit sua quemque voluptas.
Page 317 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 282 - Tua me, genitor, tua tristis imago, 695 Saepius occurrens, haec limina tendere adegit; Stant sale Tyrrheno classes. Da iungere dextram, Da, genitor, teque amplexu ne subtrahe nostro.
Page 117 - Verum ubi correptum manibus vinclisque tenebis, 405 'Tum variae eludent species atque ora ferarum. 'Fiet enim subito sus horridus atraque tigris ' Squamosusque draco et fulva cervice leaena, 'Aut acrem flammae sonitum dabit atque ita vinclis 'Excidet, aut in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit. 410 'Sed quanto ille magis formas se vertet in omnes, 'Tam tu, nate, magis contende tenacia vincla, 'Donec talis erit mutato corpore, qualem 'Videris, incepto tegeret cum lumina somno.
Page 194 - Charybdis 420 obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos sorbet in abruptum fluctus rursusque sub auras erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda.
Page 44 - Namque canebat, uti magnum per inane coacta semina terrarumque animaeque marisque fuissent, et liquidi simul ignis ; ut his exordia primis omnia et ipse tener mundi concreverit orbis...
Page 327 - ... primus ab aetherio venit Saturnus Olympo arma lovis fugiens et regnis exsul ademptis. 320 is genus indocile ac dispersum montibus altis composuit legesque dedit, Latiumque vocari maluit, his quoniam latuisset tutus in oris.
Page 52 - Amor docuit natorum sanguine matrem commaculare manus ; crudelis tu quoque, mater : crudelis mater magis, an puer improbus ille? improbus ille puer ; crudelis tu quoque, mater.