Aeneid; Books I to III: Partly in the Original and Partly in the English Verse Translation of James RhoadesClarendon Press, 1924 - 157 pages |
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... , after the victory of Philippi in 42 B. C. , settled many of his veterans in the northern provinces of Italy , and for this purpose ejected existing owners . Virgil was either expelled , or threatened with 1. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF VIRGIL ...
... , after the victory of Philippi in 42 B. C. , settled many of his veterans in the northern provinces of Italy , and for this purpose ejected existing owners . Virgil was either expelled , or threatened with 1. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF VIRGIL ...
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... Italian shepherds . His own leaning to philosophy , and in particular to epicureanism , finds its place even in a rustic story ( VI ) , and the loss and recovery of his farm are the thinly - disguised subject of the first poem . But ...
... Italian shepherds . His own leaning to philosophy , and in particular to epicureanism , finds its place even in a rustic story ( VI ) , and the loss and recovery of his farm are the thinly - disguised subject of the first poem . But ...
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... Italian agriculture ( what peasant or would- be farmer would read it ? ) , but there is a new spirit of wide patriotism breathing in his famous praises of Italy , and we feel that his sense of Rome's greatness and her mission is fast ...
... Italian agriculture ( what peasant or would- be farmer would read it ? ) , but there is a new spirit of wide patriotism breathing in his famous praises of Italy , and we feel that his sense of Rome's greatness and her mission is fast ...
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... Italy to win his way . So had Rome , and in many more details the adventures of Aeneas might be regarded as an epitome of Rome's history . Virgil might perhaps , if he had taken his story from contemporary history , have worked up to it ...
... Italy to win his way . So had Rome , and in many more details the adventures of Aeneas might be regarded as an epitome of Rome's history . Virgil might perhaps , if he had taken his story from contemporary history , have worked up to it ...
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... Italy , and the seer Helenus gives him explicit directions for his voyage round Sicily . At the close of the third book it might seem that his course is clear before him , yet when we turn back to the first book we see how it is once ...
... Italy , and the seer Helenus gives him explicit directions for his voyage round Sicily . At the close of the third book it might seem that his course is clear before him , yet when we turn back to the first book we see how it is once ...
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Achates Achilles Aeneas Aeneas's Aeneid Aeolus altar Anchises ancient Andromache animis Apollo arms Ascanius atque caesura CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ Carthage circum citadel comrades conj Coroebus Creusa CRUZ The University Danaan Danai Danaum Dardan destiny Dido fate father fire goddess gods Greek haec hand harbour Harpies heaven Hector Helenus hinc Iliad indecl inis intr Italy itum Iulus Juno Juno's Jupiter king land Latium limina litora manu mighty mihi moenia Mycenae Neoptolemus numina nunc o'er ōris Ortygia ōrum palace Pallas partic Penates Phrygian plur poem Polydorus prep Priam Pyrrhus quae quod Roman Rome round sail ships shore shrine Sicily Sinon storm story syllable Teucer Teucrians thee thine thou tibi Troia Trojans Troy Troy's Ulysses University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA urbem Venus verb Virgil vowel wind word
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Page 21 - Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Lavinaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum, saevae memorem lunonis ob iram, multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.
Page 23 - Haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem impulit in latus : ac venti, velut agmine facto, qua data porta, ruunt et terras turbine perflant.
Page 54 - Tempus erat, quo prima quies mortalibus aegris incipit et dono divum gratissima serpit.
Page 71 - 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 54 - O lux Dardaniae, spes o fidissima Teucrum, ' Quae tantae tenuere morae ? quibus Hector ab oris ' Exspectate venis ? ut te post multa tuorum ' Funera, post varios hominumque urbisque labores ' Defessi aspicimus ! quae causa indigna serenos 285 'Foedavit voltus? aut cur haec volnera cerno?' Ille nihil ; nee me quaerentem vana moratur : Sed graviter gemitus imo de pectore ducens, ' Heu ! fuge, nate dea, teque his, ' ait,
Page 90 - Aetna ruinis interdumque atram prorumpit ad aethera nubem, turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla, attollitque globos flammarum et sidera lambit: interdum scopulos avolsaque viscera montis 575 erigit eructans liquefactaque saxa sub auras cum gemitu glomerat fundoque exaestuat imo.
Page 57 - Juvenes, fortissima frustra pectora, si vobis audentem extrema cupido certa sequi, quae sit rebus fortuna videtis : 350 excessere omnes, adytis arisque relictis, di, quibus imperium hoc steterat ; succurritis urbi incensae ; moriamur et in media arma ruamus. una salus victis, nullam sperare salutem.
Page 35 - inquit ' Achate, quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris ? 460 En Priamus ! Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi ; sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. Solve metus ; feret haec aliquam tibi fama salutem.
Page 26 - Libyae vertuntur ad oras. est in secessu longo locus: insula portum efficit obiectu laterum, quibus omnis ab alto 160 frangitur inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos.
Page 36 - Tydides multa vastabat caede cruentus, ardentisque avertit equos in castra, prius quam pabula gustassent Troiae Xanthumque bibissent, Parte alia fugiens amissis Troi'lus armis, infelix puer atque impar congressus Achilli...