Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera, Or, The Works of Virgil: With Copious Notes, Mythological, Biographical, Historical ... in English : Compiled from the Best Commentators ... : Together with an Ordo of the Most Intricate Parts of the Text : Designed for the Use of Students in the Colleges, Academies, and Other Seminaries, in the United States ... : to which is Added, Table of Reference ...

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Sheldon, 1866 - 615 pages

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Page 361 - Ditis vacuas et inania regna: quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna 270 est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra luppiter et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem. Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae...
Page 140 - Esse apibus partem divinae mentis et haustus 220 Aetherios dixere ; deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque tractusque maris caelumque profundum ; Hinc pecudes, armenta, viros, genus omne ferarum, Quemque sibi tenues nascentem arcessere vitas ; Scilicet hue reddi deinde ac resoluta referri 225 Omnia, nee morti esse locum, sed viva volare Sideris in numerum atque alto succedere caelo.
Page 411 - It was indeed the most proper place in the world for a fury to make her exit, after she had filled a nation with distractions and alarms ; and I believe every reader's imagination is pleased, when he sees the angry goddess thus sinking, as it were, in a tempest, and plunging herself into hell, amidst such a scene of horror and confusion.
Page 127 - ... prata movere animum, non qui per saxa volutus purior electro campum petit amnis ; at ima solvuntur...
Page 267 - Italos mittere relicta, hue ubi delatus Cumaeam accesseris urbem divinosque lacus et Averna sonantia silvis, insanam vatem aspicies, quae rupe sub ima fata canit foliisque notas et nomina mandat. quaecumque in foliis descripsit carmina virgo, digerit in numerum atque antro seclusa relinquit.
Page 169 - Tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant ; Ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet...
Page 99 - Redit agricolis labor actus in orbem, atque in se sua per vestigia volvitur annus.
Page 89 - Fluminaque antiquos subterlabentia muros. An mare, quod supra, memorem, quodque alluit infra ? Anne lacus tantos ? te, Lari maxime, teque, Fluctibus et fremitu assurgens, Benace, marino...
Page 314 - Hunc ego Diti Sacrum jussa fero, teque isto corpore solvo. Sic ait, et dextra crinem secat. Omnis et una Dilapsus calor, atque in ventos vita recessit.
Page 152 - Quis et me, inquit, miseram, et te perdidit, Orpheu? Quis tantus furor? en iterum crudelia retro 495 fata vocant, conditque natantia lumina somnus. lamque vale. Feror ingenti circumdata nocte, invalidasque tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas!

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