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Page xiv
... notice that Venus no longer appears as the laughter - loving Aphrodite of Homer , but rather as an idealised Roman matron , majestic in her gait and bearing . The wall- paintings in the temple of Juno give the poet an oppor- tunity of ...
... notice that Venus no longer appears as the laughter - loving Aphrodite of Homer , but rather as an idealised Roman matron , majestic in her gait and bearing . The wall- paintings in the temple of Juno give the poet an oppor- tunity of ...
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... notice seems ill suited for the exordium of the great national epic . Nowhere else in the Aeneid do we find personal allusions like the opening lines of Paradise Lost , Book iii . ( 4 ) Arma virumque is an obvious imitation of the ...
... notice seems ill suited for the exordium of the great national epic . Nowhere else in the Aeneid do we find personal allusions like the opening lines of Paradise Lost , Book iii . ( 4 ) Arma virumque is an obvious imitation of the ...
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... Notice that faciat is here a symbolic word like the English ' do . ' See Earle , Philology of the English Tongue , p . 208 . 59 quippe gives the reason for their incarceration , but its position in the sentence makes it almost ...
... Notice that faciat is here a symbolic word like the English ' do . ' See Earle , Philology of the English Tongue , p . 208 . 59 quippe gives the reason for their incarceration , but its position in the sentence makes it almost ...
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... Notice gender : instead of the men , the idea uppermost in the poet's mind , are substituted the arms , etc. Rari , the antithesis to vasto . 119 arma ] Such as wicker shields and leather helmets , which would float . tabulae ] The ...
... Notice gender : instead of the men , the idea uppermost in the poet's mind , are substituted the arms , etc. Rari , the antithesis to vasto . 119 arma ] Such as wicker shields and leather helmets , which would float . tabulae ] The ...
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... Notice the position of the word — like a prince . ' 198 enim ] Cf. 1. 65 . ante ] Od . xii . 208 , ὦ φίλοι , οὐ γάρ πώ τι κακῶν ἀδαήμονές είμεν , seems in favour of taking ante with ignari sumus . 199 ] Cf. Hor . Od . i . 7. 30 , O ...
... Notice the position of the word — like a prince . ' 198 enim ] Cf. 1. 65 . ante ] Od . xii . 208 , ὦ φίλοι , οὐ γάρ πώ τι κακῶν ἀδαήμονές είμεν , seems in favour of taking ante with ignari sumus . 199 ] Cf. Hor . Od . i . 7. 30 , O ...
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Page 55 - Opening their brazen folds, discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement ; from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 23 - Hic canit errantem lunam solisque labores, unde hominum genus et pecudes, unde imber et ignes, Arcturum pluviasque Hyadas geminosque Triones, quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles 745 hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
Page 81 - Veneris nurus; sed me magna deum genetrix his detinet oris. iamque vale et nati serva communis amorem.' haec ubi dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa volentem 790 dicere deseruit, tenuisque recessit in auras. ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum ; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno.
Page 57 - Sed si tantus amor casus cognoscere nostros 10 et breviter Troiae supremum audire laborem, quamquam animus meminisse horret luctuque refugit incipiam.
Page 47 - Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Page 3 - Haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem impulit in latus : ac venti, velut agmine facto, qua data porta, ruunt et terras turbine perflant...
Page 16 - Qualis in Eurotae ripis aut per iuga Cynthi exercet Diana choros, quam mille secutae hinc atque hinc glomerantur Oreades, illa pharetram 500 fert umero gradiensque deas supereminet omnis (Latonae tacitum pertemptant gaudia pectus); talis erat Dido, talem se laeta ferebat per medios instans operi regnisque futuris.