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Page xvi
... pass to rise no more ; VIII Now thy Forum roars no longer , fallen every purple Caesar's dome — Tho ' thine ocean - roll of rhythm sound for ever of Imperial Rome - IX Now the Rome of slaves hath perish'd , and the Rome of freemen holds ...
... pass to rise no more ; VIII Now thy Forum roars no longer , fallen every purple Caesar's dome — Tho ' thine ocean - roll of rhythm sound for ever of Imperial Rome - IX Now the Rome of slaves hath perish'd , and the Rome of freemen holds ...
Page 171
... passing near the Sicilian straits ; see iii , 431 ff . penitusque sonantis scopulos : and the deep- echoing cliffs , i.e. the cliffs that echoed to the barking of Scylla's dogs . 201. accestis : shortened form for accessistis ; B. 116 ...
... passing near the Sicilian straits ; see iii , 431 ff . penitusque sonantis scopulos : and the deep- echoing cliffs , i.e. the cliffs that echoed to the barking of Scylla's dogs . 201. accestis : shortened form for accessistis ; B. 116 ...
Page 174
... pass on beyond . The word in- volves the added idea of surmounting difficulties . Timavi : the modern Timavo , a river at the head of the Adriatic Sea in modern Austria . After a subterranean course of nearly twenty - five miles , it ...
... pass on beyond . The word in- volves the added idea of surmounting difficulties . Timavi : the modern Timavo , a river at the head of the Adriatic Sea in modern Austria . After a subterranean course of nearly twenty - five miles , it ...
Page 199
... . Virgil evidently has in mind the Homeric custom of passing to guests a basin of water in which the hands could be dipped . Cererem bread . By Metonymy the name of the goddess of the grain is NOTES TO BOOK I , LINES 681-701 . 199.
... . Virgil evidently has in mind the Homeric custom of passing to guests a basin of water in which the hands could be dipped . Cererem bread . By Metonymy the name of the goddess of the grain is NOTES TO BOOK I , LINES 681-701 . 199.
Page 202
... passing nights , viz . of winter . 748. nec non et : as in line 707 . 749. infelix : cf. line 712 , pesti devota futurae . amorem : i.e. drank deep draughts of love . longum bibebat 751. Aurorae filius : Memnon ; see the note on line ...
... passing nights , viz . of winter . 748. nec non et : as in line 707 . 749. infelix : cf. line 712 , pesti devota futurae . amorem : i.e. drank deep draughts of love . longum bibebat 751. Aurorae filius : Memnon ; see the note on line ...
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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...