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Page vii
... turn to earth of the Golden Age . The new era is to be inaugurated by the birth of a child whose rule shall extend over the whole world . All nature is to bow before him , and under his beneficent sway fertility is everywhere to reign ...
... turn to earth of the Golden Age . The new era is to be inaugurated by the birth of a child whose rule shall extend over the whole world . All nature is to bow before him , and under his beneficent sway fertility is everywhere to reign ...
Page x
... turns of expression . Yet to conclude from all this that Virgil's Aeneid is simply a work of lame imitation would be grossly unjust . In spite of his dependence upon Homeric incident and language , ' his Aeneid has gone far beyond Homer ...
... turns of expression . Yet to conclude from all this that Virgil's Aeneid is simply a work of lame imitation would be grossly unjust . In spite of his dependence upon Homeric incident and language , ' his Aeneid has gone far beyond Homer ...
Page 173
... turns thee from thy first resolve ? quae te , etc. i.e. what purpose 238. hoc with this ; i.e. with this hope , this promise . equidem : at least . occasum solabar : I sought to console myself for the fall ; Conative Imperfect . 239 ...
... turns thee from thy first resolve ? quae te , etc. i.e. what purpose 238. hoc with this ; i.e. with this hope , this promise . equidem : at least . occasum solabar : I sought to console myself for the fall ; Conative Imperfect . 239 ...
Page 177
... turn is separated from its noun by origine ; B. 350 , 11 , d ; A. 598 , h ; pulchra origine is an Ablative of Quality . • . 287. imperium astris : to bound his empire by the ocean , his glory by the stars ; qui terminet is a Relative ...
... turn is separated from its noun by origine ; B. 350 , 11 , d ; A. 598 , h ; pulchra origine is an Ablative of Quality . • . 287. imperium astris : to bound his empire by the ocean , his glory by the stars ; qui terminet is a Relative ...
Page 197
... turn the attitude of Dido and her court may take . Tyrios bilinguis : the hatred of the Carthaginians bred among the Romans by the Punic wars had made Punica fides proverbial for treachery . Virgil here attributes this same quality to ...
... turn the attitude of Dido and her court may take . Tyrios bilinguis : the hatred of the Carthaginians bred among the Romans by the Punic wars had made Punica fides proverbial for treachery . Virgil here attributes this same quality to ...
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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...