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... listen to what must first be done . Hidden in a dark tree there is a golden branch . Golden too are its leaves and pliant stem and it is sacred to Proserpina , the Juno of the underworld . A whole grove conceals it and the shades of a ...
... listen to what must first be done . Hidden in a dark tree there is a golden branch . Golden too are its leaves and pliant stem and it is sacred to Proserpina , the Juno of the underworld . A whole grove conceals it and the shades of a ...
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... listen to the robuster voice of eighteenth - century England . " The final dismissal of our hero , ' declares Edward Gibbon in Memoirs of my Life ( 1984 ) , ' through the ivory gate from whence falsa ad coelum mittunt insomnia Manes ...
... listen to the robuster voice of eighteenth - century England . " The final dismissal of our hero , ' declares Edward Gibbon in Memoirs of my Life ( 1984 ) , ' through the ivory gate from whence falsa ad coelum mittunt insomnia Manes ...
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... Listen to Socrates in the Phaedo ( 114D ) : It would not be proper for a sensible man to insist that these things are as I have described them . But that this or something like it is the case with regard to our souls and their dwelling ...
... Listen to Socrates in the Phaedo ( 114D ) : It would not be proper for a sensible man to insist that these things are as I have described them . But that this or something like it is the case with regard to our souls and their dwelling ...
Common terms and phrases
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