Terminalia Or Notes on the Subjects of the Litterae Humaniores and Modernation Schools, Issues 1-2Francis Macpherson., 1851 |
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... interpretation , spelt , pulse , vetches , lupines , flax , oats , poppies , are mentioned merely exempli gratiâ , as possible crops which may be interchanged without injuring the soil , but if not varied will exhaust it : vv . 82 , 83 ...
... interpretation , spelt , pulse , vetches , lupines , flax , oats , poppies , are mentioned merely exempli gratiâ , as possible crops which may be interchanged without injuring the soil , but if not varied will exhaust it : vv . 82 , 83 ...
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... interpretation , " no Mysian culti- vation can equal an ordinary field in a dry winter , " seems to involve such a hyperbole as would in a didac- tic poem amount to a falsehood , in spite of the imita- tion adduced from Macrobius ...
... interpretation , " no Mysian culti- vation can equal an ordinary field in a dry winter , " seems to involve such a hyperbole as would in a didac- tic poem amount to a falsehood , in spite of the imita- tion adduced from Macrobius ...
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... interpretations may be multiplied . Supplying the words retro sublapsus refertur we are met by three possible courses . We may connect the clause atque illum , & c . with subigit , with remisit , or with refertur , the first without ...
... interpretations may be multiplied . Supplying the words retro sublapsus refertur we are met by three possible courses . We may connect the clause atque illum , & c . with subigit , with remisit , or with refertur , the first without ...
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... used here to introduce a comparison between the festivities of agriculturists in winter , and those of sailors in port , which is the common interpretation , or rather to introduce an instance in which agricul- tural 12 NOTES ON VIRGIL .
... used here to introduce a comparison between the festivities of agriculturists in winter , and those of sailors in port , which is the common interpretation , or rather to introduce an instance in which agricul- tural 12 NOTES ON VIRGIL .
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... interpretation given in the Schol . is έnpòv , ¿ §ú . Aridus sonus is ap- plied by Lucretius to one of the varieties of thunder . Servius thinks that aridus = nimius , because the breaking of dry wood makes too much noise . Perhaps we ...
... interpretation given in the Schol . is έnpòv , ¿ §ú . Aridus sonus is ap- plied by Lucretius to one of the varieties of thunder . Servius thinks that aridus = nimius , because the breaking of dry wood makes too much noise . Perhaps we ...
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Æneas ÆSCHYLUS Agamemnon Ancus antistrophe appears atque Attus Navius Blakesley Blomfield cognate Comp Conington connected construction construed Cratylus Crustumerium cultus curule curule magistrates dative denote Dindorf Dionys Dionysius epithet epitheton Eschylus explained expression genitive GEORGIC Greek Hermann Herodotus Heyne Heyne's instance interpretation Latin Lavinium legend Livy Lucius Tarquinius Priscus maturare mean mind natural Niebuhr notion object Orelli passage Pelasgian perhaps poet predicate Priscus probably Prom proposition quæ quam Quirites quoted reading refer rendering Roman Rome Romulus Sabine says seems sense Servius Servius Tullius Soph Strabo sub pedibus suggested supposed syllogism taken thing thought Thucydides tion verb Virgil Wagner word Wunder ἂν γὰρ γε δὲ δὴ εἶναι ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ κατὰ μᾶλλον μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ οὔτε παρ παρὰ πρὸς τὰ ταῦτα τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 7 - Non aliter quam is retro sublapsus refertur qui navigium agit atque ilium in przeceps prono rapit alveus amni;" an explanation which, even although it had not been, almost totidem verbis, Virgil's own, would have been established beyond the possibility of doubt by the nearly parallel passage of Lucretius, iv. 422.