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Page vi
... verses : - " Nocte pluit tota ; redeunt spectacula mane : Divisum imperium cum Jove Cæsar habet . " The verses were claimed by an inferior poet , Bathyllus , who received a handsome reward . This vexed Virgil , who posted the same ...
... verses : - " Nocte pluit tota ; redeunt spectacula mane : Divisum imperium cum Jove Cæsar habet . " The verses were claimed by an inferior poet , Bathyllus , who received a handsome reward . This vexed Virgil , who posted the same ...
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... verse . The story further goes that Pollio , charmed with the poem , made a gift of the slave to the author ; and that the slave , being carefully educated , became a celebrated grammarian under his real name Alexander . This story ...
... verse . The story further goes that Pollio , charmed with the poem , made a gift of the slave to the author ; and that the slave , being carefully educated , became a celebrated grammarian under his real name Alexander . This story ...
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... verse is called Amœbæan ( ȧμoißaîos , responsive ) . The couplets are wholly disconnected , some of them mere squibs flung out , it is supposed , by the poet at his rivals . Though the Amœbæan verse is Greek , and the poem itself copied ...
... verse is called Amœbæan ( ȧμoißaîos , responsive ) . The couplets are wholly disconnected , some of them mere squibs flung out , it is supposed , by the poet at his rivals . Though the Amœbæan verse is Greek , and the poem itself copied ...
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... verses , in which also certain vague prophecies are commemorated , Virgil celebrates the new hope of Italy . In the predictions of Italian priests , a new " secular month , " that of Apollo , of indefinite dura- tion , was made to begin ...
... verses , in which also certain vague prophecies are commemorated , Virgil celebrates the new hope of Italy . In the predictions of Italian priests , a new " secular month , " that of Apollo , of indefinite dura- tion , was made to begin ...
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... verses . He would fain , he says , have sung the heroic deeds of Varus ; but Apollo checks his flight , and he introduces Silenus instead , who recounts a cycle of the old Greek myths , beginning with the Epicurean doctrine of the ...
... verses . He would fain , he says , have sung the heroic deeds of Varus ; but Apollo checks his flight , and he introduces Silenus instead , who recounts a cycle of the old Greek myths , beginning with the Epicurean doctrine of the ...
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Acestes Aeneas Æneid aequora agmine alta altaria amor Anchises ancient animi animo Apollo arma atque auras caelo Cæsar caestus Cæsura carmina circum Creüsa cura cursu Daphnis Dardanus dative deinde dextra dictis Dido divine divom ducite ECLOGUE equidem erat etiam fama fata fluctus genus gods Greek haec haud Helenus hendiadys hinc hunc illa ille infelix ingens inter Iollas ipsa ipse Italiam jamque Juno juventus limina litora magna magno manus mecum medio Menalcas mihi Mnestheus moenia multa namque neque numine nunc omnes omnia omnis Ovid pater pectore pelago Priam primum procul quae quam quibus quid quis quod quondam regna Roman sanguine saxa sidera silvis super talia tamen tantum terga terras Teucri Theocritus tibi Trojae Troy ultro umbra umbris undas urbe urbem venit ventis verse Virgil viri virum word
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Page vii - Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores : Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves ; Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves ; Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes ; Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.
Page 123 - ... inveni, germana, viam (gratare sorori), quae mihi reddat eum vel eo me solvat amantem. Oceani finem iuxta solemque cadentem 480 ultimus Aethiopum locus est, ubi maximus Atlas axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum : hinc mihi Massylae gentis monstrata sacerdos, Hesperidum templi custos, epulasque draconi quae dabat et sacros servabat in arbore ramos, 485 spargens umida mella soporiferumque papaver.
Page 151 - But, howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught : leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once ! The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire : Adieu, adieu, adieu ! remember me.
Page 11 - Ultima Cumaei venit jam carminis aetas ; magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo : 5 jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna ; jam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto, tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo, casta fave Lucina : tuus jam regnat Apollo.
Page 180 - Has omnes, ubi mille rotam volvere per annos, Lethaeum ad fluvium deus evocat agmine magno, scilicet immemores supera ut convexa revisant 750 rursus et incipiant in corpora velle revertí...
Page 98 - Dissiluisse ferunt, cum protinus utraque tellus ' Una foret : venit medio vi pontus et undis ' Hesperium Siculo latus abscidit, arvaque et urbes 'Litore diductas angusto interluit aestu.
Page 6 - 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 43 - O socii (neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum), O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.
Page 81 - Da deinde auxilium, pater, atque haec omina firma.' ' Vix ea fatus erat senior, subitoque fragore Intonuit laevum, et de caelo lapsa per umbras Stella facem ducens multa cum luce cucurrit Illam, summa super labentem culmina tecti...
Page 161 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hic labor est.