VergilD. Appleton, 1880 - 106 pages |
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... written towards the end of the third century before Christ . From this time onwards Greek metres reigned supreme in Italy.✓ Ennius wrote his great epic chronicle of Roman history in hexameters , Plautus and the other dramatists used ...
... written towards the end of the third century before Christ . From this time onwards Greek metres reigned supreme in Italy.✓ Ennius wrote his great epic chronicle of Roman history in hexameters , Plautus and the other dramatists used ...
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... written his Eclogues and most of his Georgics before Octavianus returned to Italy , after settling the affairs of the empire , in 29 B.C. A great deal of criticism has been written on the supposition , implied or avowed , that the ...
... written his Eclogues and most of his Georgics before Octavianus returned to Italy , after settling the affairs of the empire , in 29 B.C. A great deal of criticism has been written on the supposition , implied or avowed , that the ...
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... writing , which sometimes prefers inversion to directness , and elaboration to simplicity . This quality , which distinguishes the poets in question from Lucre- tius and Catullus , is sometimes regarded as the result of the artificial ...
... writing , which sometimes prefers inversion to directness , and elaboration to simplicity . This quality , which distinguishes the poets in question from Lucre- tius and Catullus , is sometimes regarded as the result of the artificial ...
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... writing , and given , as he certainly could have given , a touch of greater depth and dignity to the classical form of the Latin elegiac . If again we compare the subjects chosen by Vergil and Horace with those treated by Lucretius and ...
... writing , and given , as he certainly could have given , a touch of greater depth and dignity to the classical form of the Latin elegiac . If again we compare the subjects chosen by Vergil and Horace with those treated by Lucretius and ...
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... written of him by the poet Varius , and by other friends , one of whom was Melissus , a freedman of Maecenas . From these memoirs it is probable that Suetonius , who wrote the history of the first twelve Caesars , compiled a Life of ...
... written of him by the poet Varius , and by other friends , one of whom was Melissus , a freedman of Maecenas . From these memoirs it is probable that Suetonius , who wrote the history of the first twelve Caesars , compiled a Life of ...
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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.