 Veneris nurus, sed me magna deum genetrix his detinet oris. iamque vale et nati serva commnnis amorem.' haec ubi dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa volentem 790 dicere deseruit tenuisque recessit in auras. ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum; ter...  Aeneide - Page 84by Virgil - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Anthony James Boyle - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 212 pages
...4.499-502), Aeneas experiences only loss and dissolution: haec ubi dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa uolentem dicere deseruit, tenuisque recessit in auras, ter...circum; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, par leuibus uentis uolucrique simillima somno. (A. 2.790-94) When she had said this, though l was weeping... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - Philosophy - 1985 - 268 pages
...here the result very frequently deceives hope, and has also in this case escaped our longing hands. "Ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, Par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno." — (ViRGiL.) [Thrice I tried to embrace and thrice it escaped me, the image. Airy and light as the... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - Philosophy - 2013 - 204 pages
...l'espérance, ce n'est que beaucoup trop fréquent, et il a cette fois encore échappé à nos mains avides : Ter frustra comprensa manus, effugit imago, Par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. VIRG. ». Le second est plus approprié à la nature de l'entendement humain et consiste à voir si... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Purgatory - 1991 - 874 pages
.... . . petto: See Virgil, Aen. VI, 700-702, where Aeneas meets with his father in the nether world: ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum, ter frustra...imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. Thrice there he strove to throw his arms about his neck; thrice the form, vainly clasped, fled from... | |
 | Rachel Jacoff, Robert Ball - Poetry - 1991 - 364 pages
...interpretation. No less suggestive as regards the gesture's character and deeper meaning is its effect: Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum, ter frustra...imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. (Aen. 6.700-702) Thrice there he strove to throw his arms about his neck; thrice the form, vainly clasped,... | |
 | Manfred Wacht - Epic poetry, Latin - 1996 - 734 pages
...bracchia circum; /ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,/ par levibus ventis volucrique A. 2,793 (19) dare bracchia circum; /ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,/ par levibus ventis volucrique A. 6,701 (19) invectas Thybridis undam /non, ut rere, meas effugit nuntius auris;/ ne tantos mihi finge... | |
 | Charles Martindale - History - 1997 - 408 pages
...dextram da genitor, teque amplexu ne subtrahe nostro.' sic memorans, largo fletu simul ora rigabat. ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum ter frustra...imago par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. (Aen. 6. 697-702) 'O Father, give me your hand to hold, give it to me. Do not withdraw from my embrace.'... | |
 | Michael C. J. Putnam - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 284 pages
...to lines 31—33. When Aeneas finally reaches Anchises, son tries to embrace father (6.700—701): ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum; /ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago (three times there he attempted to throw his arms about his neck; three times the vision, embraced... | |
 | Christine G. Perkell - Literary Collections - 1999 - 374 pages
...dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa volentem dicere deseruit, tenuisque recessit in auras. ter cognatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum; ter frustra comprensa...imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno." (2.790-94) "When she was done with words — I weeping and wanting to say so many things — she left... | |
 | Philip R. Hardie - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 412 pages
...dextram, da, genitor, teque amplexu ne subtrahe nostro. sic memorans largo fletu simul ora rigabat. ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, par leuibus uentis uolucrique simillima somno. (vi.697-702) Ter conatus ibi . . . Where have we heard these... | |
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