 Troi'us heros ut primum iuxta stetit adgnovitque per umbras obscuram, qualem primo qui surgere mense aut videt, aut vidisse putat per nubila lunam, demisit lacrimas, dulcique adfatus amore est : 455 ' Infelix Dido, verus mihi nuntius ergo venerat exstinctam,...  L'Énéide, - Page 64by Virgil - 1804 - 350 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri - English fiction - 1989 - 683 pages
...rebus nox abstulit atra colorem. . . . quam Troius héros ut primum iuxta stetit adgnovitque per umbras obscuram, qualem primo qui surgere mense aut videt aut vidisse putat per nubila lunam .... On they went dimly, beneath the lonely night amid the gloom, through the empty halls of Dis and... | |
 | Glenda McLeod, Glenda K. McLeod - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...signs. When Aeneas first spots her, she is compared to the moon half-glimpsed through a cloud—"qualem primo qui surgere mense /aut videt aut vidisse putat per nubila lunam." 14 The simile carries overtones of lunacy and disorder both in its evocation of visual unreality (Aeneas... | |
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