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Page iv
... carrying it to completion . It is still by many highly prized for its closeness to the original , being a line by line ... carry it only as far as to " the first third of the 10th Book , " when death interrupted his labors . It was ...
... carrying it to completion . It is still by many highly prized for its closeness to the original , being a line by line ... carry it only as far as to " the first third of the 10th Book , " when death interrupted his labors . It was ...
Page x
... foot ) ; and the proportion of fifteen such lines in Eneid i , 1-10 to nine in Iliad i , 1-0 , may be taken as a rough measure of the extent to which he carried out this modification of Homeric rhythm . A spondee in the first X PREFACE .
... foot ) ; and the proportion of fifteen such lines in Eneid i , 1-10 to nine in Iliad i , 1-0 , may be taken as a rough measure of the extent to which he carried out this modification of Homeric rhythm . A spondee in the first X PREFACE .
Page xvii
... carrying with him our profoundest sympathy . We accord him instinctively a very high place in our esteem for his filial devotion , his evidently sincere religious veneration , and as having a heart ever pulsing with human kindness , and ...
... carrying with him our profoundest sympathy . We accord him instinctively a very high place in our esteem for his filial devotion , his evidently sincere religious veneration , and as having a heart ever pulsing with human kindness , and ...
Page xix
... carried back to so grand , as well as high , an antiquity ; whilst antiquarians then , and ever since , have seen in it a value greater to them than the mere romance of semi - historic heroes and their chivalric achievements . But the ...
... carried back to so grand , as well as high , an antiquity ; whilst antiquarians then , and ever since , have seen in it a value greater to them than the mere romance of semi - historic heroes and their chivalric achievements . But the ...
Page xxvii
... carried through the entire work , and cancelled even after it had begun to be executed in type - was to give foot - references to passages where phrases or sentences were repeated by the poet , or to allusions throwing light on the ...
... carried through the entire work , and cancelled even after it had begun to be executed in type - was to give foot - references to passages where phrases or sentences were repeated by the poet , or to allusions throwing light on the ...
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Acestes Æneas Æneid æther afar altars Anchises Apollo armor arms Ascanius Ausonian battle bespeaks billows blood body bosom breezes buckler Camilla Carthage cavern charger chariot chieftains comrades Creüsa Danaäns Dardan Dardanian death deep deities Dido earth Eneas Euryalus Evander exclaims eyes fates father Æneas Faunus flames fleet flits foemen forests fortune goddess gods gold grove hast hath heaven Helenus helmet Hence hero hexameter hither honor Ilian Italia Iülus Juno Jupiter Juturna land Latins Latium lofty mansions Meanwhile Messapus Mezentius midst mighty Mnestheus monarch mother mountains night Nisus o'er ocean offspring once Pallas Pergamus Phoebus Phrygian pity plains Priam ramparts right hand river round rushing Rutulians sabre sails Sergestus shalt shores shoulders sister slaughter slumber soul Spake spear spirit squadron steeds summons surges Tarchon temples Teucrans thee thine thou threshold Trojan Turnus Tyrrhenian uttered valor Venus Virgil wafted war-spear warfare warriors weapons winds wound