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" Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores : Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves ; Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves ; Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes ; Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves. "
Aeneis; Bucolica; Georgica: The Greater Poems of Virgil - Page xvii
by Virgil - 1898
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Introductory Latin Delectus: with a copious vacabulary

George Ferguson (LL.D.) - 1843 - 168 pages
...faceré potuisset. Nocte pluit totâ ; redeunt spectacula mane : Divisum imperium cum Jove Cœsar habet. Hos ego versículos feci ; tulit alter honores: Sic...mellificatis, apes ; Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra, boves. Isocrates librum quarto et nonagésimo anno scripsisse dicitur : vixitque quinquennium postea. Non...
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Revista de Madrid

Madrid (Spain) - 1843 - 268 pages
...malignamente los palaciegos, y no falló quien acercándose al oído le recordase los versos de Virgilio, Sic vos, non vobis, mellificatis apes Sic vos, non vobis , fertis aratra boves. Para completar el ridiculo se dieron á Ceballos el toisón , y A Campo Sagrado la gran cruz de Carlos...
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A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX: With a Pedigree of Most of Its Gentry

Thomas Westcote - Devon (England) - 1845 - 676 pages
...feci, tulit alter honores. Sic vos nun vobis nidificatis aves ; Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis ov« ; Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes . Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves." This vene I made, another had, The profit that I lack ; So sheep a fleece do bear, and leese, To clothe...
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The Æneïd of Virgil with Engl. notes, by C. Anthon. Adapted by F. Metcalfe

Publius Vergilius Maro - Epic poetry, Latin - 1846 - 676 pages
...Bathyllus seemed unable; and Virgil at last, by completing the stanza in the following order, Sic vos nun vobis nidificatis aves ; Sic vos non vobis vellera...mellificatis apes ; Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves, proved himself to be the author of the distich, and the poetical usurper became the sport and ridicule...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 5

1847 - 586 pages
...Take that remarkable instance of the lines attributed to Virgil : — ' Sic vos non vobis uidificatis, aves : Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis, oves ; Sic...mellificatis, apes : Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra, boves.' This quatrain is remarkable for being not only constructed in regular Latin metre, but for being in...
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The new delectus; or, Easy steps to Latin construing

George Henry Stoddart - 1848 - 254 pages
...Bathyllus to finish the verses, but he could not : at last Virgil came forward, and finished them thus — Sic vos, non vobis, vellera fertis, oves ; Sic vos,...mellificatis, apes; Sic vos, non vobis, fertis aratra, boves. And thus he was acknowledged the author of the previous verses, and Bathyllus was disgraced for his...
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Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica: Georgica et Aeneis; breviariis et notis ...

Virgil - 1850 - 588 pages
...el mismo Batilo se presento á ejecutarlo; y entonces Virgilio los concluyó en esta forma : líos ego versículos feci ; tulit alter honores : Sic vos...mellificatis apes ; Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves. Con lo cual acabó de destruir á sus enemigos, y aumentó su grande reputación. Sus obras han sido...
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Moralism and Christianity: Or, Man's Experience and Destiny. In Three Lectures

Henry James - Christianity - 1850 - 198 pages
...with apples. In short there is no such thing as a spiritual horse — cow — sheep — or apple tree. Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves, Sic vos non vobis...mellificatis apes, Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves. No, all these performances are for the benefit of man. The whole realm of nature is destitute of a...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...horse — cow — sheep — or apple tree. Sic vos mm vobis nidificatis aves, Sic vos non vobis vellcra fertis oves, Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes, Sic vOS non vobis fertis aratra boves. No, all these performances are for the benefit of man. The whole realm of nature is destitute of a...
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The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States

Charles Hall - Civilization - 1850 - 276 pages
...and his children. All the other days, or all the other hours of the day, he works for other people. Sic vos non vobis mellificatis, apes : Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra, boves. The conclusion here given, as to the share which every labouring man enjoys of the produce of his labour,...
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