VergilD. Appleton, 1880 - 106 pages |
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Page 46
... Trojan War appear as migrating west- ward to Sicily and Italy : secondly , they are not like Achilles and Ulysses , the destroyers , but like Aeneas and Antenor , the founders , of cities . Their glory is as much in peace as in war ; in ...
... Trojan War appear as migrating west- ward to Sicily and Italy : secondly , they are not like Achilles and Ulysses , the destroyers , but like Aeneas and Antenor , the founders , of cities . Their glory is as much in peace as in war ; in ...
Page 49
... Trojans are represented as staying only for a short time before they go on to Sicily . The legend which brought Trojan settlers to the north - west coast of Sicily , to Elymus , Eryx , and Segesta , was older than the time of Thucydides ...
... Trojans are represented as staying only for a short time before they go on to Sicily . The legend which brought Trojan settlers to the north - west coast of Sicily , to Elymus , Eryx , and Segesta , was older than the time of Thucydides ...
Page 50
... Trojan being represented as playing a prominent part in the drama ; the Trojan element is represented only by captive women . But probably in consequence of their wars with Greece , which began at the beginning of the third century B.C. ...
... Trojan being represented as playing a prominent part in the drama ; the Trojan element is represented only by captive women . But probably in consequence of their wars with Greece , which began at the beginning of the third century B.C. ...
Page 51
... Trojan legend as a matter of public policy , and professed indeed to be guided by it in their dealings with the East ... Trojans are represented as Hellenes . The loss of the bulk of Varro's works and of much intermediate literature ...
... Trojan legend as a matter of public policy , and professed indeed to be guided by it in their dealings with the East ... Trojans are represented as Hellenes . The loss of the bulk of Varro's works and of much intermediate literature ...
Page 52
... Trojans are Hellenes , and the Greeks Achaeans ( ' Axaιoi ) . In his answer to Latinus ( Dionys . 1. 58 ) Aeneas says on behalf of himself and his Trojans , " We are Trojans by race , and were citizens of a city among the most ...
... Trojans are Hellenes , and the Greeks Achaeans ( ' Axaιoi ) . In his answer to Latinus ( Dionys . 1. 58 ) Aeneas says on behalf of himself and his Trojans , " We are Trojans by race , and were citizens of a city among the most ...
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Page 103 - ... subterlabentia muros. an mare quod supra memorem, quodque adluit infra? anne lacus tantos? te, Lari maxime, teque, fluctibus et fremitu adsurgens Benace marine? 160 an memorem portus Lucrinoque addita claustra atque indignatum magnis stridoribus aequor, lulia qua ponto longe sonat unda refuso Tyrrhenusque fretis immittitur aestus Avernis?
Page 79 - In verbis etiam tenuis cautusque serendis, Dixeris egregie notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum. Si forte necesse est Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, Fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis Continget, dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter ; Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem si Graeco fonte cadant, parce detorta.
Page 104 - Nox erat, et placidum carpebant fessa soporem Corpora per terras, silvaeque et saeva quierant Aequora, cum medio volvuntur sidera lapsu, Cum tacet omnis ager, pecudes, pictaeque volucres, 525 Quaeque lacus late liquidos, quaeque aspera dumis Rura tenent, somno positae sub nocte silenti Lenibant curas, et corda oblita laborum.
Page 103 - ... omnia sub magna labentia flumina terra spectabat diversa locis, Phasimque Lycumque et caput, unde altus primum se erumpit Enipeus, unde pater Tiberinus, et unde Aniena fluenta...
Page 96 - Esse apibus partem divinae mentis et haustus 220 Aetherios dixere ; deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque tractusque maris caelumque profundum ; Hinc pecudes, armenta, viros, genus omne ferarum, Quemque sibi tenues nascentem arcessere vitas ; Scilicet hue reddi deinde ac resoluta referri 225 Omnia, nee morti esse locum, sed viva volare Sideris in numerum atque alto succedere caelo.
Page 79 - Varioque ? ego cur, acquirere pauca 55 si possum, invideor, cum lingua Catonis et Enni sermonem patrium ditaverit et nova rerum nomina protulerit? licuit semperque licebit signatum praesente nota producere nomen.
Page 82 - Troianum orditur ab ovo : semper ad eventum festinat et in medias res non secus ac notas auditorem rapit, et quae desperat tractata nitescere posse relinquit, 150 atque ita mentitur, sic veris falsa remiscet, primo ne medium, medio ne discrepet imum.