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Page xii
... sense Aeneas is anything but a romantic character . His desertion of the fated Dido brings him instant condemnation on the part of all of us . But the pupil who reads the Aeneid should judge this act in the light of ancient sentiment ...
... sense Aeneas is anything but a romantic character . His desertion of the fated Dido brings him instant condemnation on the part of all of us . But the pupil who reads the Aeneid should judge this act in the light of ancient sentiment ...
Page xviii
... sense is bound to develop . § 2. ICTUS . Two views of ictus are held . According to one view ictus is a stress accent . This makes Latin verse accentual precisely like English poetry . According to the other view ictus is merely the ...
... sense is bound to develop . § 2. ICTUS . Two views of ictus are held . According to one view ictus is a stress accent . This makes Latin verse accentual precisely like English poetry . According to the other view ictus is merely the ...
Page xix
... sense for the verse . § 4. SPECIAL CAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN ORDER TO SECURE CORRECT SYLLABIC QUANTITY IN READING . Inasmuch as Latin poetry was based on the quantity of syllables , it is obvious that the greatest care must be taken ...
... sense for the verse . § 4. SPECIAL CAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN ORDER TO SECURE CORRECT SYLLABIC QUANTITY IN READING . Inasmuch as Latin poetry was based on the quantity of syllables , it is obvious that the greatest care must be taken ...
Page 158
... sense of everteret ; i.e. the simple verb has the force of the compound . This usage is a common feature in the poetry of Virgil's age and in the prose of the era immediately fol- lowing ; verteret represents a future indicative of ...
... sense of everteret ; i.e. the simple verb has the force of the compound . This usage is a common feature in the poetry of Virgil's age and in the prose of the era immediately fol- lowing ; verteret represents a future indicative of ...
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books I-VI Virgil Charles Edwin Bennett. " sense of evolvere , another instance of the use of the simple verb for the compound . 23. Saturnia : i.e. Juno , the daughter of Saturn . etc. viz . the Trojan War . belli quod , 24. prima : as ...
books I-VI Virgil Charles Edwin Bennett. " sense of evolvere , another instance of the use of the simple verb for the compound . 23. Saturnia : i.e. Juno , the daughter of Saturn . etc. viz . the Trojan War . belli quod , 24. prima : as ...
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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...