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books I-VI Virgil Charles Edwin Bennett. KD NEDL TRANSFER 45076 HN SCNC b ennetts Latin Series Virgil's Aeneid Allyn -and- Bacon ADEMIAE CHRI HARVARDIAN VE RI TAS NOV HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Front Cover.
books I-VI Virgil Charles Edwin Bennett. KD NEDL TRANSFER 45076 HN SCNC b ennetts Latin Series Virgil's Aeneid Allyn -and- Bacon ADEMIAE CHRI HARVARDIAN VE RI TAS NOV HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Front Cover.
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... LATIN IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY Boston Allyn and Bacon JUN 27 1905 Harvard University , Dept of Education Library 1905 Bennett's Latin Series.
... LATIN IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY Boston Allyn and Bacon JUN 27 1905 Harvard University , Dept of Education Library 1905 Bennett's Latin Series.
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... Latin literature . They breathe the breath of spring , the perfume of flowers ; they suggest the charm of nature - trees , brooks , hills , lakes , sun , air , stars , -in her manifold phases . They touch upon the abounding joys of ...
... Latin literature . They breathe the breath of spring , the perfume of flowers ; they suggest the charm of nature - trees , brooks , hills , lakes , sun , air , stars , -in her manifold phases . They touch upon the abounding joys of ...
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books I-VI Virgil Charles Edwin Bennett. perfect as any work of Latin literature . The versification in particular was the most finished yet seen . Virgil had worked seven years on the poem , giving it his careful thought and study day ...
books I-VI Virgil Charles Edwin Bennett. perfect as any work of Latin literature . The versification in particular was the most finished yet seen . Virgil had worked seven years on the poem , giving it his careful thought and study day ...
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... the character and purpose of his poem . Homer 1 Other Greek sources were utilized by the poet . He was also indebted to Naevius , Ennius , and other Latin poets . simply gives us a vivid picture of past events - X INTRODUCTION .
... the character and purpose of his poem . Homer 1 Other Greek sources were utilized by the poet . He was also indebted to Naevius , Ennius , and other Latin poets . simply gives us a vivid picture of past events - X INTRODUCTION .
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Page xiv - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh, a marble face; Plead better at the bar; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise. But Rome! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war, thy own majestic way: To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free: — These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
Page 126 - Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula poscit : nunc grege de intacto septem mactare iuvencos praestiterit, totidem lectas de more bidentes.' Talibus affata Aenean (nec sacra morantur 40 iussa viri) Teucros vocat alta in templa sacerdos. Excisum Euboicae latus ingens rupis in antrum, quo lati ducunt aditus centum, ostia centum; unde ruunt totidem voces, responsa Sibyllae. Ventum erat ad limen, cum virgo 'Poscere fata 45 tempus
Page xvi - Chanter of the Pollio, glorying in the blissful years again to be, Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless sea; Thou that seest Universal Nature moved by Universal Mind; Thou majestic in thy sadness at the doubtful doom of human kind...
Page 32 - Bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum Terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Page 83 - At regina dolos (quis fallere possit amantem?) praesensit motusque excepit prima futuros, omnia tuta timens. Eadem impia Fama furenti detulit armari classem cursumque parari. Saevit inops animi totamque incensa per urbem 300 bacchatur, qualis commotis excita sacris Thyias, ubi audito stimulant trieterica Baccho orgia nocturnusque vocat clamore Cithaeron.
Page 84 - ... oro, si quis adhuc precibus locus — exue mentem. Te propter Libycae gentes Nomadumque tyranni 320 odere, infensi Tyrii ; te propter eundem exstinctus pudor, et, qua sola sidera adibam, fama prior. Cui me moribundam deseris, hospes ? Hoc solum nomen quoniam de coniuge restat.
Page 34 - Ille nihil, nec me quaerentem vana moratur, sed graviter gemitus imo de pectore ducens, ' Heu fuge, nate dea, teque his, ait, eripe flammis.
Page 64 - Haec loca vi quondam et vasta convolsa ruina (tantum aevi longinqua valet mutare vetustas) 415 dissiluisse feruiit, 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 79 - Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit...