Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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Page 119
... Dido dux et Trioanus eandem deveniunt . Prima et Tellus et pronuba Iuno dant signum ; fulsere ignes et conscius aether connubiis , summoque ulularunt vertice Nymphae ( Dido and the Trojan chief come down into the same cave . And primal ...
... Dido dux et Trioanus eandem deveniunt . Prima et Tellus et pronuba Iuno dant signum ; fulsere ignes et conscius aether connubiis , summoque ulularunt vertice Nymphae ( Dido and the Trojan chief come down into the same cave . And primal ...
Page 120
... Dido's failure to move Aeneas makes us feel he is no longer a man , or even a human being . He can only plead the duty of obeying heaven that he should have remembered so much earlier . But if the unrighteous piety of his reply arouses ...
... Dido's failure to move Aeneas makes us feel he is no longer a man , or even a human being . He can only plead the duty of obeying heaven that he should have remembered so much earlier . But if the unrighteous piety of his reply arouses ...
Page 124
... Dido is a unique figure in epic poetry , being as different from the characters of Alexandrian as from those of Homeric story . The Medea of Apollonius Rhodius resembles her mainly in the external circum- stances of her history . Like Dido ...
... Dido is a unique figure in epic poetry , being as different from the characters of Alexandrian as from those of Homeric story . The Medea of Apollonius Rhodius resembles her mainly in the external circum- stances of her history . Like Dido ...
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