Bucolica: Georgica ; et Æneis : accedunt clavis metrica, notulae Anglicæ, et quæstiones, nec non index vocabulorum uberrimaSumptibus Cummings, Hilliard, 1826 - 809 pages |
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Page 429
... gives no favourable description of this spot , either in point of health , beauty , or fertility . The passage may be understood two ways ; either as descriptive of Tityrus's farm ( by which Virgil's is understood ) , or , more probably ...
... gives no favourable description of this spot , either in point of health , beauty , or fertility . The passage may be understood two ways ; either as descriptive of Tityrus's farm ( by which Virgil's is understood ) , or , more probably ...
Page 434
... give the name of laurel , was not introduced into Europe till within these three centuries . ' Virgil in this passage , and Æn . vi . 658. speaks of the fragrance of the laurus . Lucretius of its crackling in the fire : Phobi Delphica ...
... give the name of laurel , was not introduced into Europe till within these three centuries . ' Virgil in this passage , and Æn . vi . 658. speaks of the fragrance of the laurus . Lucretius of its crackling in the fire : Phobi Delphica ...
Page 436
... give the name careze , to a species of rush ; according to Bauhin , the juncus acutus paniculá sparsa ; our common hard rush . M. Menalcas seeing Damotas in the act of theft , calls out to Tityrus , who had the care of these goats , to ...
... give the name careze , to a species of rush ; according to Bauhin , the juncus acutus paniculá sparsa ; our common hard rush . M. Menalcas seeing Damotas in the act of theft , calls out to Tityrus , who had the care of these goats , to ...
Page 440
... give a yellow dye , and called woold , or woad . M. 45. Sundyx : scarlet : Pliny and Servius say that this is an herb : Martyn thinks it our red orpiment . 46. Talia sæcla : Ye so happy ages , run on [ hasten forward to the birth ] ...
... give a yellow dye , and called woold , or woad . M. 45. Sundyx : scarlet : Pliny and Servius say that this is an herb : Martyn thinks it our red orpiment . 46. Talia sæcla : Ye so happy ages , run on [ hasten forward to the birth ] ...
Page 441
... give it the name of seliunk . M. 23. Mater : as Julius Cæsar fell at the age of fifty - six , and no mother survived him , it does not seem probable that he was the subject of this Eclogue . But by mater , Martyn and Voss would ...
... give it the name of seliunk . M. 23. Mater : as Julius Cæsar fell at the age of fifty - six , and no mother survived him , it does not seem probable that he was the subject of this Eclogue . But by mater , Martyn and Voss would ...
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Page 7 - Nunc ego (namque super tibi erunt qui dicere laudes, Vare, tuas cupiant et tristia condere bella) agrestem tenui meditabor harundine Musam.
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