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Page iii
... whole poem . It is based upon a careful collation of the editions of Heyne , Wagner , Conington , Ribbeck , and Ladewig , with frequent reference to other standard authorities , and with constant and especial regard to the testimony of ...
... whole poem . It is based upon a careful collation of the editions of Heyne , Wagner , Conington , Ribbeck , and Ladewig , with frequent reference to other standard authorities , and with constant and especial regard to the testimony of ...
Page v
... whole audience rose to do him honor . Their merit consists in their versification , which was smoother and more polished than the hexameters which the Romans had yet seen , and in many nat- ural and simple touches . John Dryden , in the ...
... whole audience rose to do him honor . Their merit consists in their versification , which was smoother and more polished than the hexameters which the Romans had yet seen , and in many nat- ural and simple touches . John Dryden , in the ...
Page vii
... whole work . Again ; had Homer himself no models ? Nay , was he not a magnificent freebooter in the domain of the ballad- makers who preceded him ? Is Dante any the less original , in that he confesses to our Virgil , " Thou art my ...
... whole work . Again ; had Homer himself no models ? Nay , was he not a magnificent freebooter in the domain of the ballad- makers who preceded him ? Is Dante any the less original , in that he confesses to our Virgil , " Thou art my ...
Page 141
... whole story of the fall of Troy and his seven years of wan- dering ( 699-756 ) . 1-3 . Arma - litora . I sing of arms and the man , who first , from the coasts of Troy , by fate an exile , came to Italy and the Lavinian shores.— Italiam ...
... whole story of the fall of Troy and his seven years of wan- dering ( 699-756 ) . 1-3 . Arma - litora . I sing of arms and the man , who first , from the coasts of Troy , by fate an exile , came to Italy and the Lavinian shores.— Italiam ...
Page 142
... whole equivalent to quam ob laesionem numinis sui . 9. Quidye dolens , or wherefore vexed ( lit. , or why grieving ) . Her grievances are stated in lines 26-28 . Quid is acc . of specification , or adverbial accusative . - Deûm , gen ...
... whole equivalent to quam ob laesionem numinis sui . 9. Quidye dolens , or wherefore vexed ( lit. , or why grieving ) . Her grievances are stated in lines 26-28 . Quid is acc . of specification , or adverbial accusative . - Deûm , gen ...
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Page 133 - ... suscipit Anchises atque ordine singula pandit. 'principio caelum ac terras camposque liquentes lucentemque globum Lunae Titaniaque astra Spiritus intus alit, .totamque infusa per artus mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Page 135 - Hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, 'Augustus Caesar, Divi genus, aurea condet 'Saecula qui rursus Latio, regnata per arva
Page 122 - ... ante ora parentum : quam multa in silvis autumni frigore primo lapsa cadunt folia, aut ad terram gurgite ab alto 310 quam multae glomerantur aves, ubi frigidus annus trans pontum fugat, et terris immittit apricis.
Page 24 - Talibus Ilioneus; cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae. 560 Tum breviter Dido voltum demissa profatur: 'Solvite corde metum, Teucri, secludite curas. 'Res dura et regni novitas me talia cogunt 'Moliri et late fines custode tueri.
Page 121 - Et Metus, et malesuada Fames, ac turpis Egestas, Terribiles visu formae, Letumque, Labosque ; Tum consanguineus Leti Sopor, et mala mentis Gaudia, mortiferumque adverso in limine Bellum, Ferreique Eumenidum thalami, et Discordia demens, 280 Vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis.
Page 22 - Dido, incessit magna iuvenum stipante caterva. qualis in Eurotae ripis aut per iuga Cynthi exercet Diana choros , quam mille secutae hinc atque hinc glomerantur Oreades; illa pharetram 500 fert umero gradiensque deas supereminet omnis (Latonae tacitum pertemptant gaudia pectus): talis erat Dido, talem se laeta ferebat per medios instans operi regnisque futuris.
Page 43 - Apparet domus intus et atria longa patescunt, apparent Priami et veterum penetralia regum; armatosque vident stantes in limine primo.
Page 77 - Monstrum horrendum, ingens, cui quot sunt corpore plumae, Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu, Tot linguae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.
Page 25 - Quae te tam laeta tulerunt 605 saecula ? qui tanti talem genuere parentes ? in freta dum fluvii current, dum montibus umbrae lustrabunt convexa, polus dum sidera pascet, semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt, quae me cumque vocant terrae.
Page 137 - Latini, et quo quemque modo fugiatque feratque laborem. sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes.