Terminalia Or Notes on the Subjects of the Litterae Humaniores and Modernation Schools, Issues 1-2Francis Macpherson., 1851 |
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... suppose it to imply a compliment to Cæsar , who is called upon to speed the months , as with their present staff of constellations they move too slowly . So in Ecl . iv . 50 , the coming child is bidden , Adspice convexo nutantem ...
... suppose it to imply a compliment to Cæsar , who is called upon to speed the months , as with their present staff of constellations they move too slowly . So in Ecl . iv . 50 , the coming child is bidden , Adspice convexo nutantem ...
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... suppose atque illum to be put for quem - non aliter quam qui , & c . ( equivalent to a substantive ) quem rapit - the resolution being introduced to avoid the repetition of the relative . Or we might make atque a pleonastic repetition ...
... suppose atque illum to be put for quem - non aliter quam qui , & c . ( equivalent to a substantive ) quem rapit - the resolution being introduced to avoid the repetition of the relative . Or we might make atque a pleonastic repetition ...
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... suppose that the poet had either compared the thing to itself , according to Pope's re- cipe for an easy simile , or the greater by the less , the effects of a hurricane to those of a common gale . Wagner's ita eira wants authority ...
... suppose that the poet had either compared the thing to itself , according to Pope's re- cipe for an easy simile , or the greater by the less , the effects of a hurricane to those of a common gale . Wagner's ita eira wants authority ...
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... given above , and say that the long ob- jectless hooting is the peculiarity which constitutes the prognostic . If this be thought too great a refine- C ment , we must suppose either that the hooting under NOTES ON VIRGIL . 17.
... given above , and say that the long ob- jectless hooting is the peculiarity which constitutes the prognostic . If this be thought too great a refine- C ment , we must suppose either that the hooting under NOTES ON VIRGIL . 17.
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ment , we must suppose either that the hooting under any circumstances is a prognostic , or that no prog- nostic , strictly speaking , is intended , but merely a concomitant , the poet naturally caring rather to com- plete the picture ...
ment , we must suppose either that the hooting under any circumstances is a prognostic , or that no prog- nostic , strictly speaking , is intended , but merely a concomitant , the poet naturally caring rather to com- plete the picture ...
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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.