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... fays Aelian . To thefe be adds a fourth reafon ; that Tity- rus fignifies a Goat in the African language , whence the name has . been afcribed to thofe who feed them . He concludes with obferv- ing , that Servius only fays that the ...
... fays Aelian . To thefe be adds a fourth reafon ; that Tity- rus fignifies a Goat in the African language , whence the name has . been afcribed to thofe who feed them . He concludes with obferv- ing , that Servius only fays that the ...
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... fays , protenus is put In the following paffage in the for porro tenus or continuo , which is peculiar to Virgil . Ruaeus alfo in- terprets it continuo . But furely it Tartaream intendit , vocem , qua would be better to tranflate this ...
... fays , protenus is put In the following paffage in the for porro tenus or continuo , which is peculiar to Virgil . Ruaeus alfo in- terprets it continuo . But furely it Tartaream intendit , vocem , qua would be better to tranflate this ...
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... fay a lion is bigger than a dog , we exprefs the dif " than " ference of kind as well as of mag- 66 66 nitude , as the Poet does now in " peaking of Rome . I thought before , fays he , that Rome was " to be compared with other cities ...
... fay a lion is bigger than a dog , we exprefs the dif " than " ference of kind as well as of mag- 66 66 nitude , as the Poet does now in " peaking of Rome . I thought before , fays he , that Rome was " to be compared with other cities ...
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... fays he , read Galatea , We do not fee any reafon , why " thinking the fenfe would other- Virgil fhould call Mantua , ungrate ful . Tityrus carried his cattle and cheefe thither to fell , and if he did not bring his money home with him ...
... fays he , read Galatea , We do not fee any reafon , why " thinking the fenfe would other- Virgil fhould call Mantua , ungrate ful . Tityrus carried his cattle and cheefe thither to fell , and if he did not bring his money home with him ...
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... fays ' exprefsly , that Oaxus is a city of Crete ; Εσλι της Κρήτης Οάξος πόλις . Apollonius , in the first book of his Argonauticks , calls Crete the Oax- ian land ; ३ 67 and to the Britons quite divided from the whole world . duced ...
... fays ' exprefsly , that Oaxus is a city of Crete ; Εσλι της Κρήτης Οάξος πόλις . Apollonius , in the first book of his Argonauticks , calls Crete the Oax- ian land ; ३ 67 and to the Britons quite divided from the whole world . duced ...
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