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... find that Vergil's writings have much of the character of the poets he had studied . His earliest work was the Eclogues , a pastoral poem after the manner of Theocritus . He next wrote the Georgics , a poem treating of agricul- ture ...
... find that Vergil's writings have much of the character of the poets he had studied . His earliest work was the Eclogues , a pastoral poem after the manner of Theocritus . He next wrote the Georgics , a poem treating of agricul- ture ...
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... find rest . The Sibyl of Cumae in answer prophesies war and suffering , but bids him go on . At , Phoebi nondum patiens , inmanis in antro Bacchatur vates , magnum si pectore possit Excussisse deum ; tanto magis ille fatigat Os rabidum ...
... find rest . The Sibyl of Cumae in answer prophesies war and suffering , but bids him go on . At , Phoebi nondum patiens , inmanis in antro Bacchatur vates , magnum si pectore possit Excussisse deum ; tanto magis ille fatigat Os rabidum ...
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... atque inmania terga resolvit Fusus humi , totoque ingens extenditur antro . Occupat Aeneas aditum custode sepulto , Evaditque celer ripam inremeabilis undae . 870 875 XXXII . They find on every side grieving spirits ---
... atque inmania terga resolvit Fusus humi , totoque ingens extenditur antro . Occupat Aeneas aditum custode sepulto , Evaditque celer ripam inremeabilis undae . 870 875 XXXII . They find on every side grieving spirits ---
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Publius Vergilius Maro, George Lovett Bennett. XXXII . They find on every side grieving spirits --- those of children , of people falsely condemned to death , of suicides . Thence they pass to the Mourning Fields , haunted by ghosts of ...
Publius Vergilius Maro, George Lovett Bennett. XXXII . They find on every side grieving spirits --- those of children , of people falsely condemned to death , of suicides . Thence they pass to the Mourning Fields , haunted by ghosts of ...
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... find after sperasti . In prose we should find te the subject of posse expressed . decedere . Depending on sperasti , the same tense being used . 469 mene fugis . Is it from me that you fly ? ' Notice the emphatic position of me . per ...
... find after sperasti . In prose we should find te the subject of posse expressed . decedere . Depending on sperasti , the same tense being used . 469 mene fugis . Is it from me that you fly ? ' Notice the emphatic position of me . per ...
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ablative Achilles Aeneas Aeneid aequora aethera agmina Algebra alta alto animis Apollo apposition arma armis Ascanius auras auris back BENNETT Book Books boys caeli caelo caelum called Cambridge Camilla circum clamore clause College common Conjunctive construction course Cyclops Dative death denotes deus dextra Dido earth Edited electro emphatic ensem epithet Euryalus fata fight find First Latin force FRANCIS STORR genitive Greek hastam Haud help Historic infinitive Iamque Ille Indirect Infelix ingens Iovis Italy Iuno Iuppiter king Laomedon Latio Lavinia Libya LIFE litora lumina manus Mezentius monstrum note NOTES Notice nunc oculos Old form Omnibus omnis Pallas pater pectore place PLYMOUTH poetical proelia prose PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO respect Rutuli sanguine sanguis sends sidera silex silvis subjunctive super take taken tela tellus Teucri Troiae Trojans Troy Turni Turnus Understand Used adverbially Venus verb VERGIL vertice volnere Volsci word
Popular passages
Page 28 - Hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, 'Augustus Caesar, Divi genus, aurea condet 'Saecula qui rursus Latio, regnata per arva
Page 22 - Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno : noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hic labor est.
Page vi - Hic canit errantem lunam solisque labores, Unde hominum genus et pecudes, unde imber et ignes, Arcturum pluviasque Hyadas geminosque Triones, Quid tantum oceano properent se tinguere soles 745 Hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
Page 8 - Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes, Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum : mobilitate viget virisque adquirit eundo, parva metu primo, mox sese attollit in auras ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit.
Page ii - Antenor potuit, mediis elapsus Achivis, Illyricos penetrare sinus atque intima tutus Regna Liburnorum, et fontem superare Timavi, Unde per ora novem vasto cum murmure montis It mare proruptum, et pelago premit arva sonanti.
Page 25 - Troi'us heros ut primum iuxta stetit adgnovitque per umbras obscuram, qualem primo qui surgere mense aut videt, aut vidisse putat per nubila lunam, demisit lacrimas, dulcique adfatus amore est : 455 ' Infelix Dido, verus mihi nuntius ergo venerat exstinctam, ferroque extrema secutam?
Page 13 - Iliacas vestis notumque cubile conspexit, paulum lacrimis et mente morata incubuitque toro dixitque novissima verba : 650 'dulces exuviae, dum fata deusque sinebat, accipite hanc animam meque his exsolvite curis vixi et quem dederat cursum fortuna peregi, et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit imago. urbem praeclaram statui, mea moenia vidi, ulta virum poenas inimico a fratre recepi, felix, heu nimium felix, si litora tantum numquam Dardaniae tetigissent nostra carinae.
Page 11 - ... in somnis ferus Aeneas, semperque relinqui sola sibi, semper longam incomitata videtur ire viam et Tyrios deserta quaerere terra...
Page 28 - Hie manus ob patriam pugnando volnera passi, 660 quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, quique pii vates et Phoebo digna locuti, inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes, quique sui memores alios fecere merendo, omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.
Page 21 - At, Phoebi nondum patiens, immanis in antro bacchatur vates, magnum si pectore possit excussisse deum ; tanto magis ille fatigat os rabidum, fera corda domans, fingitque premendo.