 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 2002 - 141 pages
...and Martha Ray in The Thorn. The owl is a literary character deriving from Virgil, Aeneid iv 462-463: Solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo Saepe queri et longas in fletum ducere voces . . . Gray imitated Virgil in his Elegy 10: 'The mopeing owl does to the moon complain.' The vignette... | |
 | Rubén Bonifaz Nuńo - Education - 2006 - 598 pages
...voces et verba vocantis Visa viri, nox cum terras obscura teneret; Solaque culminibus ferali carminé bubo Saepe queri et longas in fletum ducere voces. Multaque praeterea vatum praedicta piorum 465 Terribili monitu horrificant. Agit ipse furentem In somnis férus Aeneas; semperque relinqui Sola... | |
 | ...sinister, etc. applied to this bird by the Roman writers. The same idea is embodied in Virgil's lines : Solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo Saepe queri, et longas in fletum ducere voces. Aen. iv. 462—3. where the note of the bird is classed among the omens which terribili moiiitu horrificant... | |
 | Ernest Whitney Martin - 1914 - 260 pages
...The Great White Owl. The mournful notes of an owl on the roof-top add to the gloom of deserted Dido : Solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo Saepe queri et longas in fletum ducere voces. — VERG., Aen. IV, 462. Cf. [Hos. Get.] Medea 124 (Anth. Lot., p. 66). Bubo is feminine only here... | |
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... solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo saepe queri et longas in fletum ducere voces. 
