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Page 128
... plough upside down , and the oxen went home dragging its tail and handle over the surface of the ground . The plough may then be said to hang , as it were , on the ox - yoke . Compare Horace ( Epod . , ii . , 63 ) : " Videre fessos ...
... plough upside down , and the oxen went home dragging its tail and handle over the surface of the ground . The plough may then be said to hang , as it were , on the ox - yoke . Compare Horace ( Epod . , ii . , 63 ) : " Videre fessos ...
Page 141
... plough . " This and the ex- pression immediately following are proverbial ones , and are intended to denote what is palpably absurd . Compare Lucian ( Vit . Demonact . , vol . i . , p . 865 , ed . 1687 ) , тpáɣov àμéλyev . Menalcas here ...
... plough . " This and the ex- pression immediately following are proverbial ones , and are intended to denote what is palpably absurd . Compare Lucian ( Vit . Demonact . , vol . i . , p . 865 , ed . 1687 ) , тpáɣov àμéλyev . Menalcas here ...
Page 148
... plough and pruning - hook laid aside , when honey shall drop from the sweating oak , and milk bedew the fields . It is this constant reference to rustic life , this restriction to rural imagery , and not the dignity or lowliness of ...
... plough and pruning - hook laid aside , when honey shall drop from the sweating oak , and milk bedew the fields . It is this constant reference to rustic life , this restriction to rural imagery , and not the dignity or lowliness of ...
Page 173
... plough for her neck , " i . e . , was afraid of being yoked to the plough , while fancy- ing herself a heifer . 54-56 . Ilice sub nigrâ , & c . " Ruminates the pale herbs beneath a dark - leaved holm oak . " The rumen , or paunch , is ...
... plough for her neck , " i . e . , was afraid of being yoked to the plough , while fancy- ing herself a heifer . 54-56 . Ilice sub nigrâ , & c . " Ruminates the pale herbs beneath a dark - leaved holm oak . " The rumen , or paunch , is ...
Page 176
... plough ; and here we have the rising of the evening star , the gathering of the sheep into the folds , and the counting of their number . Et invito processit Olympo . " And came forth from reluctant Olympus , " i . e . , and made his ...
... plough ; and here we have the rising of the evening star , the gathering of the sheep into the folds , and the counting of their number . Et invito processit Olympo . " And came forth from reluctant Olympus , " i . e . , and made his ...
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Page 5 - Dardaniusque Paris. Pallas quas condidit arces ipsa colat : nobis placeant ante omnia silvae. Torva leaena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam, florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella, te Corydon, o Alexi : trahit sua quemque voluptas.
Page 28 - Audieras, et fama fuit ; sed carmina tantum nostra valent, Lycida, tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt aquila veniente columbas.
Page 84 - Usque adeo obnixi non cedere, dum gravis aut hos Aut hos versa fuga victor dare terga subegit.
Page 67 - Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.
Page 64 - Hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini, hanc Remus et frater, sic fortis Etruria crevit scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma, septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces.
Page 39 - Celei vilisque supellex, 165 arbuteae crates et mystica vannus lacchi. omnia quae multo ante memor provisa repones, si te digna manet divini gloria ruris. continuo in silvis magna vi flexa domatur in burim et curvi formam accipit ulmus aratri. 170 huic a stirpe pedes temo protentus in octo, binae aures, duplici aptantur dentalia dorso. caeditur et tilia ante iugo levis, altaque fagus stivaque, quae currus a tergo torqueat imos, et suspensa focis explorat robora fumus.
Page 95 - At cantu commotae Erebi de sedibus imis umbrae ibant tenues simulacraque luce carentum, quam multa in foliis avium se millia condunt, vesper ubi aut hibernus agit de montibus imber, matres atque viri defunctaque corpora vita...
Page 96 - Immemor heu victusque animi respexit : ibi omnis Effusus labor atque immitis rupta tyranni Foedera terque fragor stagnis auditus Avernis. Ilia, ' Quis et me,' inquit, ' miseram et te perdidit, Orpheu, Quis tantus furor ? En iterum crudelia retro Fata vocant, conditque natantia lumina somnus.
Page 15 - Apollo. 35 grandia saepe quibus mandavimus hordea sulcis, infelix lolium et steriles nascuntur avenae; pro molli viola, pro purpureo narcisso carduus et spinis surgit paliurus acutis. spargite humum foliis, inducite fontibus umbras, 40 pastores; mandat fieri sibi talia Daphnis; et tumulum facite, et tumulo superaddite carmen: 'Daphnis ego in silvis, hinc usque ad sidera notus, formosi pecoris custos, formosior ipse.
Page 60 - Versibus incomptis ludunt risuque soluto, Oraque corticibus sumunt horrenda cavatis, Et te, Bacche, vocant per carmina laeta, tibique Oscilla ex alta suspendunt mollia pinu.