| Giambattista Vico - Oratory - 1996 - 350 pages
...grim lioness follows the wolf, the wolf himself the she-goat, the lascivious she-goat the clover."1 Torva leaena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam, Florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella. Ovid, in his essay on the Roman calendar, gives us this: "Mars sees her and seeing her, desires her,... | |
| Stephen Guy-Bray - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 286 pages
...tries to win over Alexis by praising the woods: quem fugis, a! demens? habitarunt di quoque siluas Dardaniusque Paris. Pallas quas condidit arces ipsa colat; nobis placeant ante omnia siluae. torua leaena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam, florentem cytisum sequitur lasciua capella,... | |
| Jon R. Stone - Foreign Language Study - 2005 - 422 pages
...circling wave, and immediately the wave subsiding, we descend to the lowest depths (Virgil) torva lea:na lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam, florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella, te Corydon, O Alexi: trahit sua quemque voluptas: fierce lioness goes after wolf, that same wolf after a goat,... | |
| Karl Galinsky - Art - 2005 - 448 pages
...lament of a love-lorn shepherd for his inaccessible boyfriend, is another hothouse flower (2.63-5): torva leaena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam,...florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella, te Corydon, o Alexi; trahit sua quemque voluptas. "The grim lioness pursues the wolf [a curiously perverse vision],... | |
| Michael Paschalis - Comparative literature - 2007 - 232 pages
...neatherd, passed me quickly by and gives no heed. with Ecl. 2.60-62: ... habitarunt di quoque silvas Dardaniusque Paris. Pallas quas condidit arces ipsa colat; nobis placeant ante omnia silvae even the gods have dwelt in the woods, and Dardan Paris. Let Pallas dwell by herself in the cities... | |
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