Terminalia Or Notes on the Subjects of the Litterae Humaniores and Modernation Schools, Issues 1-2Francis Macpherson., 1851 |
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... things into a higher atmosphere , the greater will be the difficulty of the reader in discovering the real nature of the materials so metamorphosed . 99 V. 92. Heyne and Wagner make tenues an epitheton ornans . It is better to construe ...
... things into a higher atmosphere , the greater will be the difficulty of the reader in discovering the real nature of the materials so metamorphosed . 99 V. 92. Heyne and Wagner make tenues an epitheton ornans . It is better to construe ...
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... thing with cries ; and lastly , to bear the more general sense of quærere . V. 199. We have here a scrap of Lucretian philo- sophy , not particularly in keeping with the general notions of the poet , who , on other occasions , by no ...
... thing with cries ; and lastly , to bear the more general sense of quærere . V. 199. We have here a scrap of Lucretian philo- sophy , not particularly in keeping with the general notions of the poet , who , on other occasions , by no ...
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... word bears two senses , one that of doing a thing leisurely , the other that of doing it hastily ; the latter being the meaning here . Trapp follows in his steps , but declares for the former . A little thought will 10 NOTES ON VIRGIL .
... word bears two senses , one that of doing a thing leisurely , the other that of doing it hastily ; the latter being the meaning here . Trapp follows in his steps , but declares for the former . A little thought will 10 NOTES ON VIRGIL .
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... things , timely haste and untimely hurry , and so the words are to be taken as strongly contrasted . V. 263. No one has thought it worth while to explain the construction cavat arbore lintres . Early commentators doubtless supplied ex ...
... things , timely haste and untimely hurry , and so the words are to be taken as strongly contrasted . V. 263. No one has thought it worth while to explain the construction cavat arbore lintres . Early commentators doubtless supplied ex ...
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... thing : Æn . iii . 508 , Sol ruit interea , et montes umbrantur opaci : x . 256 , interea revoluta ruebat Maturâ jam luce dies , noctemque fugârat . In the one case it is clear that the sun is meant when going down ; in the other , when ...
... thing : Æn . iii . 508 , Sol ruit interea , et montes umbrantur opaci : x . 256 , interea revoluta ruebat Maturâ jam luce dies , noctemque fugârat . In the one case it is clear that the sun is meant when going down ; in the other , when ...
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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 45 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 70 - Peace, brother : be not over exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils : For grant they be so ; while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Or, if they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion...
Page 7 - Sic melius quam ut sit, in qua propter frigoris rigorem nulla res tractari, agi, potest.
Page 38 - Lex horrendi carminis erat; Duumviri perduellionem judicent. Si a Duumviris provocarit, provocatione certato ; si vincent, caput obnubito : infelici arbori reste suspendito. Verberato vel intra pomœrium, vel extra pomœrium. Ķac lege Duumviri creati ; qui se absolvere non rebantur ea lege ne innoxium quidem posse, quum condemnassent, tum alter ex his, P. Horati, tibi perduellionem judico, inquit, I lictor, colliga manus. Accesserat lictor, injiciebatque laqueum. tum Horatius, auctore Tullo, clemente...
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.