Publii Virgilii; or, The works of Virgil: With copious notes, mythological, biographical, historical ... in English; comp. from the best commentators... Together with an ordo of the most intricate parts of the text, upon the same page with the text. Designed for the use of students in the colleges, academies, and other seminaries, in the United States... To which is added, A table of reference...N. & J. White, 1837 - 615 pages |
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Page 13
... thinks he was some intimate friend of Vir- gil , who wished to transmit his name to posterity . History is silent respecting him . cantando ? 35. Verum , quoniam libet tibi insanire , ponam id quod tute ipse fate- bere esse multò majus ...
... thinks he was some intimate friend of Vir- gil , who wished to transmit his name to posterity . History is silent respecting him . cantando ? 35. Verum , quoniam libet tibi insanire , ponam id quod tute ipse fate- bere esse multò majus ...
Page 20
... think we are to understand the months of July and August , because they bore the names of Julius and Augustus . But we are undoubtedly to understand the magni menses here , in the same manner and sense , 15 as magnus ordo saclorum ...
... think we are to understand the months of July and August , because they bore the names of Julius and Augustus . But we are undoubtedly to understand the magni menses here , in the same manner and sense , 15 as magnus ordo saclorum ...
Page 24
... thinks it was written when some games or sacrifices were performed in honor of Cæsar . The scene is beautiful , and adapted to the subject . The shepherds sit on the verdant grass in the awful gloom of a grotto , overhung with wild ...
... thinks it was written when some games or sacrifices were performed in honor of Cæsar . The scene is beautiful , and adapted to the subject . The shepherds sit on the verdant grass in the awful gloom of a grotto , overhung with wild ...
Page 25
... thinks the poet hath in his view a passage in Sueto- nius . Speaking of the prodigies which preceded the death of Cæsar , he says : Proximis diebus equorum greges , quas in tra- jiciendo Rubicone flumine consecrârat , ac vagos et sine ...
... thinks the poet hath in his view a passage in Sueto- nius . Speaking of the prodigies which preceded the death of Cæsar , he says : Proximis diebus equorum greges , quas in tra- jiciendo Rubicone flumine consecrârat , ac vagos et sine ...
Page 34
... think Virgil here con- founds the two , attributing to the former what properly belongs to the latter . But there will be no need of this , if we only sup- ply the word eam , or illam . The story of Scylla , the daughter of Phorcus , is ...
... think Virgil here con- founds the two , attributing to the former what properly belongs to the latter . But there will be no need of this , if we only sup- ply the word eam , or illam . The story of Scylla , the daughter of Phorcus , is ...
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