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Page ix
... voice , pronunciation and gestures . We know how Octavia was affected by his reading of the lines about Marcellus . " His reading was in strict accordance with the established rules of Latin prosody , which made quantity , and not ...
... voice , pronunciation and gestures . We know how Octavia was affected by his reading of the lines about Marcellus . " His reading was in strict accordance with the established rules of Latin prosody , which made quantity , and not ...
Page xxiii
... voices , the wail of women and the maddened shouts of desperate men in the awful death - struggle in defense of a city being laid in ashes . Does he see fit to describe games , as in the Fifth Book ? What reporter of modern sports could ...
... voices , the wail of women and the maddened shouts of desperate men in the awful death - struggle in defense of a city being laid in ashes . Does he see fit to describe games , as in the Fifth Book ? What reporter of modern sports could ...
Page 3
... voice breaks forth : O thrice and quadruple happy They , who in sight of their sires , ' neath Troja's imperial ramparts , Chanced to expire ! O Tydides , most brave of the race of the Danai , Why could it not have been mine to have ...
... voice breaks forth : O thrice and quadruple happy They , who in sight of their sires , ' neath Troja's imperial ramparts , Chanced to expire ! O Tydides , most brave of the race of the Danai , Why could it not have been mine to have ...
Page 6
... voice he bespeaks them , yet , sick from accumulate troubles , Hope in his countenance feigns , and at heart he represses his anguish . Gird they themselves for the game , and the viands which now are in waiting : 210 Strip they the ...
... voice he bespeaks them , yet , sick from accumulate troubles , Hope in his countenance feigns , and at heart he represses his anguish . Gird they themselves for the game , and the viands which now are in waiting : 210 Strip they the ...
Page 9
... voice sound human - O surely a goddess ! Art thou the sister of Phoebus ? or one from the blood of the wood - nymphs ? Be thou propitious , whoever thou art , and relieve our embarrassed Labor , and teach us beneath what sky , and on ...
... voice sound human - O surely a goddess ! Art thou the sister of Phoebus ? or one from the blood of the wood - nymphs ? Be thou propitious , whoever thou art , and relieve our embarrassed Labor , and teach us beneath what sky , and on ...
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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