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" Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum, Ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, Par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. "
Virgil's Aeneid: books I-XII - Page 174
by Virgil - 1902 - 342 pages
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics that Can Qualify as a Science

Immanuel Kant - Philosophy - 1985 - 268 pages
...here the result very frequently deceives hope, and has also in this case escaped our longing hands. "Ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, Par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno." — (ViRGiL.) [Thrice I tried to embrace and thrice it escaped me, the image. Airy and light as the...
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Rêves d'un visionnaire

Immanuel Kant - Philosophy - 2013 - 204 pages
...l'espérance, ce n'est que beaucoup trop fréquent, et il a cette fois encore échappé à nos mains avides : Ter frustra comprensa manus, effugit imago, Par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. VIRG. ». Le second est plus approprié à la nature de l'entendement humain et consiste à voir si...
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The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante’s ‘Commedia’

Rachel Jacoff, Robert Ball - Poetry - 1991 - 364 pages
...interpretation. No less suggestive as regards the gesture's character and deeper meaning is its effect: Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum, ter frustra...imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. (Aen. 6.700-702) Thrice there he strove to throw his arms about his neck; thrice the form, vainly clasped,...
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Purgatorio: Commentary

Dante Alighieri - Purgatory - 1991 - 874 pages
.... . . petto: See Virgil, Aen. VI, 700-702, where Aeneas meets with his father in the nether world: ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum, ter frustra...imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. Thrice there he strove to throw his arms about his neck; thrice the form, vainly clasped, fled from...
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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

Charles Martindale - History - 1997 - 408 pages
...dextram da genitor, teque amplexu ne subtrahe nostro.' sic memorans, largo fletu simul ora rigabat. ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum ter frustra...imago par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. (Aen. 6. 697-702) 'O Father, give me your hand to hold, give it to me. Do not withdraw from my embrace.'...
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The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine

Sabine MacCormack - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 298 pages
...spectacle and asked its meaning: what might be the river and who the people crowding on the banks. Interea videt Aeneas in valle reducta seclusum nemus et virgulta sonantia silvae, Lethaeumque domos placidas qui praenatat amnem. hunc circum innumerae gentes populique volabant: ac...
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Die Ovid- und Vergil-Revision in tiberischer Zeit: Prolegomena

Otto Zwierlein - History - 1999 - 716 pages
.... . camposque per omnis cum stabulis armento trahit3 . turn sic adfari et curas his demere dictis4 [ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum: ter frustra...imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno.] (4,80) (4,81) (georg. 3,421) (2,383) ~ georg. 1,482 ~ 1,483 = 3,153 = 8,35 = 6,700 = 6,701 = 6,702...
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Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide

Christine G. Perkell - Literary Collections - 1999 - 374 pages
...dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa volentem dicere deseruit, tenuisque recessit in auras. ter cognatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum; ter frustra comprensa...imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno." (2.790-94) "When she was done with words — I weeping and wanting to say so many things — she left...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 39

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...your hand! Do not slip from my embrace! Virgil comments: sic memorans largo fletu simul ora rigabat, ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum, ter frustra...imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. (6.699-702) As he spoke his face grew wet with the stream of tears. Three times he tried to cast his...
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Verse und Sachen: kulturwissenschaftliche Interpretationen römischer Dichtung

Hubert Cancik, Richard Faber - Latin poetry - 2003 - 320 pages
...10), S. 46ff. 55 6,282-284; 893-899. Schatten (des Toten) und Traumbild sind in 6,701 f. verglichen: ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, / par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno, Anchises ist ihm bereits im Traum erschienen: 4, 35 1 ff. 56 Serv. Aen. 6,893: vult autem intellegi...
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