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Acestes Aeneid altered Anchises Anna Perenna Apollo battle Battle of Actium Carthage Celaeno change of order chronology conception connection Cumae Cumaean Sibyl dealing death of Anchises death of Turnus detail Dido Dido's difficulty earlier Entstehung der Aeneis Etruscan fact Fourth Georgic Georgic Gercke given half-line Helenus incidents inconsistencies Italiam Italy IX.-XII Juno Juturna last six books later books Latinus Latium Lausus Lavinium legend mentioned Mezentius Naevius narrative of Aeneas Nisus occur Odysseus old Second Book oracle Palinurus Pallas passage perhaps poem present form probably prophecy prose sketch quae quid read to Augustus reference rejection revision Ribbeck seems Servius Sicily statement of Suetonius story Sueton Suetonius Suetonius and Servius suggest suppose that Vergil theory Third Book tradition Troiae Trojan camp Troy Turnus unfinished lines Varius and Tucca Venus Vergil VII.-XII VIII voyage Warde Fowler whole written
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Page 105 - Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum saevae memorem lunonis ob iram ; multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, 5 inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum, Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.
Page 104 - Haec super arvorum cultu pecorumque canebam et super arboribus, Caesar dum magnus ad altum fulminat Euphraten bello victorque volentis 560 per populos dat iura viamque adfectat Olympo. illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat Parthenope, studiis florentem ignobilis oti, carmina qui lusi pastorum audaxque iuventa, Tityre, te patulae cecini sub tegmine fagi.
Page 9 - I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 19 - Longa tibi exsilia, et vastum maris aequor arandum, 780 et terram Hesperiam venies, ubi Lydius arva inter opima virum leni fluit agmine Thybris : illic res laetae regnumque et regia coniunx parta tibi. Lacrimas dilectae pelle Creusae. Non ego Myrmidonum sedes Dolopumve superbas 785 aspiciam, aut Graiis servitum matribus ibo, Dardanis, et divae Veneris nurus. Sed me magna deum genetrix his detinet oris : iamque vale, et nati serva communis amorem.
Page 104 - Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus avena Carmen, et egressus silvis vicina coegi Ut quamvis avido parerent arva colono, Gratum opus agricolis; at nunc horrentia Martis Arma virumque cano.
Page 14 - De Aenea quidem meo, si mehercle iam dignum auribus haberem tuis, libenter mitterem, sed tanta inchoata res est, ut paene vitio mentis tantum opus ingressus mihi videar, cum praesertim, ut scis, alia quoque studia ad id opus multoque potiora impertiar (1).
Page 10 - Dixit, et avertens rosea cervice refulsit, ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem spiravere, pedes vestis defluxit ad imos, et vera incessu patuit dea.
Page 11 - Sed si tantus amor casus cognoscere nostros 10 et breviter Troiae supremum audire laborem, quamquam animus meminisse horret luctuque refugit incipiam.
Page 3 - Troia cremata rogo. (39) Egerat cum Vario, priusquam Italia decederet, ut, si quid sibi accidisset, Aeneida combureret; at is facturum se pernegarat; igitur in extrema valetudine assidue scrinia desideravit crematurus ipse; verum nemine offerente nihil quidem nominatim de ea cavit.
Page 19 - Anchises magnum cratera corona 525 induit implevitque mero, divosque vocavit stans celsa in puppi : ' di maris et terrae tempestatumque potentes, ferte viam vento facilem et spirate secundi.