Tantum effata furens antro se immisit aperto: ille ducem haud timidis vadentem passibus aequat. Di, quibus imperium est animarum, umbraeque silentes, et Chaos et Phlegethon, loca nocte tacentia late, 265 sit mihi fas audita loqui, sit numine vestro pandere... Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis - Page 195by Virgil - 1842 - 600 pagesFull view - About this book
| Adélia Toledo Bezerra de Meneses - History - 2002 - 192 pages
...simulacros [...]" (Virgílio, Eneida, VI, vv. 268-269). A beleza dos versos originais merece ser preservada: Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna. E, logo em seguida, segue-se a descrição da morada subterrânea e de seus habitantes: No próprio... | |
| Neil Forsyth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 398 pages
...in the famous lines that Dante evokes for the selva oscura at the beginning of the Divina Commedia: Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram perque domos...inania regna: quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra luppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem. vestibulum... | |
| Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - History - 2004 - 400 pages
...Chaos, et Phlegethon! loca nocte silentia late? Sit mihi fas audita loqui! sit numine vestro Pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas! Ibant obscuri,...umbram, Perque domos Ditis vacuas, et inania regna. Ye subterraneous gods! whose awefiil sway The gliding ghosts, and silent shades obey; O Chaos hoar!... | |
| K. W. Gransden, S. J. Harrison - History - 2004 - 122 pages
...They predominate, too. in the mysterious opening lines of the descent into the underworld in book VI: ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna (VI.268-9) Dryden catches the effect very well, partly by keeping the Latin derivative 'obscure' and... | |
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