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... answers . Norden's answer was that the branch was mistletoe . From mistletoe we make birdlime . Birdlime is a sticky paste . So stickiness or cunctation is a permanent characteristic of mistletoe . Hence cunctantam , the hesitation of ...
... answers . Norden's answer was that the branch was mistletoe . From mistletoe we make birdlime . Birdlime is a sticky paste . So stickiness or cunctation is a permanent characteristic of mistletoe . Hence cunctantam , the hesitation of ...
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... answer : ' Poetically the sense is clear : for he wants it to be understood that everything he has said is false . ' But this is clearly wrong . After all , everything he has said is true . All the prophecies received by Aeneas in the ...
... answer : ' Poetically the sense is clear : for he wants it to be understood that everything he has said is false . ' But this is clearly wrong . After all , everything he has said is true . All the prophecies received by Aeneas in the ...
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... answer is at last provided . Professor West is among the foremost Latin scholars in Britain , and one whose published studies are the more prized because they are relatively infrequent . In tackling this most fundamental of Virgilian ...
... answer is at last provided . Professor West is among the foremost Latin scholars in Britain , and one whose published studies are the more prized because they are relatively infrequent . In tackling this most fundamental of Virgilian ...
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A. K. Michels Aeneas emerge Aeneid Agnes Kirsopp Michels allusion Aricia Augustus aureus Balder beautiful Proserpina birdlime bough which Aeneas brattea uento breath of gold Caieta dark holm-oak dead death Discolor aura dream of Scipio Elysium erat essayed his perilous Exeter Studies EXETER UNIVERSITY falsa insomnia false dreams Frazer gate of false gate of horn gate of ivory gates of dreams Gates of Sleep geminae gold foliage golden bough golden branch haste or irreligion Hödur inde sumpsit colorem instituit ivory gate Jackson Knight Latin lecture Loki Meleager metal mistletoe mystic narrative Norden PCPS poet Poetically the sense Poetry priest problem Proserpina has ordained quae R. D. Williams ramo ramum ramus Roman Rome runaway scholars Sergeaunt service to expound Servius Sibyl simile sixth book Studies in History subtle Platonic symbol T. C. W. Stinton T. P. Wiseman tree true shades umbris Underworld before midnight University of Exeter uolens facilisque Virgil Virgilian vision