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... word , not only tracing it to its latin or 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 ...
... word , not only tracing it to its latin or 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 ...
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... words- ' Actia Virgilium custodis litora Phœbi Caesaris et fortis dicere posse rates , ' that Propertius did not write it till the completion of the eighth book ( see 675 , & c . especially 704 ) ; which we should conjecture , for rea ...
... words- ' Actia Virgilium custodis litora Phœbi Caesaris et fortis dicere posse rates , ' that Propertius did not write it till the completion of the eighth book ( see 675 , & c . especially 704 ) ; which we should conjecture , for rea ...
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... words of Niebuhr— ‹ Virgil displays in it [ the Aeneid ] a learning of which the historian can scarcely avail himself enough ; and the historian who studies the Aeneid thoroughly will ever find new things to admire . ' It is now time to ...
... words of Niebuhr— ‹ Virgil displays in it [ the Aeneid ] a learning of which the historian can scarcely avail himself enough ; and the historian who studies the Aeneid thoroughly will ever find new things to admire . ' It is now time to ...
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... words of a master , even though it anticipate something of what remains to be said of the Aeneid . In the Epic , character forbids the appearance of descrip- tions of natural scenes and objects otherwise than as subordinate and ...
... words of a master , even though it anticipate something of what remains to be said of the Aeneid . In the Epic , character forbids the appearance of descrip- tions of natural scenes and objects otherwise than as subordinate and ...
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... word , Bouzone- xòs , and signifies , pertaining to the shepherd life - pastoral . The title Ecloga was probably added by the critics . It also is bor- rowed from the Greek , ixλoy , a selected piece ; so that Bucolicon Eclogae means ...
... word , Bouzone- xòs , and signifies , pertaining to the shepherd life - pastoral . The title Ecloga was probably added by the critics . It also is bor- rowed from the Greek , ixλoy , a selected piece ; so that Bucolicon Eclogae means ...
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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.