 | Smith College - English poetry - 1925 - 420 pages
...XII, 684 ff.): ac veluti mantis saxum de vertice praeceps cum ruit, avolsum vento, seu turbidus imber proluit, aut annis solvit sublapsa vetustas; fertur in abruptum magno mons improbus actu?* " Most of Juvenal's similes from nature are animal similes; eg, II, 80; XII. 33; XIV, 74 ff.; XV, 160... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - French literature - 1925 - 316 pages
...neferoit qu'aller. * Swifter than lightning from the sky, or the tigress with young. — Lucan, V, 405. Fertur in abruptum magno mons improbus actu, Exultatque solo, silvas, armenta virosque Involvens secum.1 (a) Speaking of the siege of Avaricum, he says that it was his custom to remain night and day... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - French literature - 1925 - 316 pages
...aut annis solvit sublapsa vetustas, 1 See Plutarch, Life of Ctesar. a <=>uand on neferoit qualler. Fertur in abruptum magno mons improbus actu, Exultatque solo, silvas, armenta virosque Involvens secum.1 (a) Speaking of the siege of Avaricum, he says that it was his custom to remain night and day... | |
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... per agmina Turnus sic urbis ruit ad muros, ubi plurima fuso 690 sanguine terra madet striduntque hastilibus aurae, significatque manu et magno simul incipit ore: 'parcite iam, Rutuli, et vos tela inhibete. 
