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Page xxii
... in the Eneid , which has often been overlooked , but which deserves at least passing notice , viz . , the technical accuracy exhibited in it . Like Shake- speare , Virgil rarely , if ever , makes mistake xxii PREFACE .
... in the Eneid , which has often been overlooked , but which deserves at least passing notice , viz . , the technical accuracy exhibited in it . Like Shake- speare , Virgil rarely , if ever , makes mistake xxii PREFACE .
Page xxxiii
... pass on : 535-547 . Pluto's dismal realm looms with its lurid battlements on the left , from which issue sounds of clanking chains and the din of tortures , which the Sibyl explains as they pass : 548-627 . Elysium at length is reached ...
... pass on : 535-547 . Pluto's dismal realm looms with its lurid battlements on the left , from which issue sounds of clanking chains and the din of tortures , which the Sibyl explains as they pass : 548-627 . Elysium at length is reached ...
Page xxxviii
... passes the defile and gains the open plain . The two , with their squads , gallop over the plains in sight of each other towards the city , but halt and camp apart outside , awaiting the morrow : 896-915 . BOOK XII . THE FINAL ISSUE ...
... passes the defile and gains the open plain . The two , with their squads , gallop over the plains in sight of each other towards the city , but halt and camp apart outside , awaiting the morrow : 896-915 . BOOK XII . THE FINAL ISSUE ...
Page 7
... pass by the source of Timavus ; Whence it , through nine mouths bursting with echoing roar of the mountains , 245 Issues a sea , and careers o'er the meadows a resonant ocean . Here he the city Patavium still , and abodes of the ...
... pass by the source of Timavus ; Whence it , through nine mouths bursting with echoing roar of the mountains , 245 Issues a sea , and careers o'er the meadows a resonant ocean . Here he the city Patavium still , and abodes of the ...
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... pass round napkins of glossiest velvet . Fifty within are the maidens , on whom is devolving in long row Care of preparing the courses , and lighting the fires to the home - gods . Equal in age are a hundred more , and as many attendant ...
... pass round napkins of glossiest velvet . Fifty within are the maidens , on whom is devolving in long row Care of preparing the courses , and lighting the fires to the home - gods . Equal in age are a hundred more , and as many attendant ...
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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