Selections from the Poems of Ovid: Chiefly the MetamorphosesGinn, Heath & Company, 1882 |
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... most famous fables of the ancient world , the Metamorphoses , in particular , makes the best of introductions to the nobler and more difficult verse of Virgil . Writings of Ovid . vii WRITINGS OF OVID . I. vi The Life of Ovid .
... most famous fables of the ancient world , the Metamorphoses , in particular , makes the best of introductions to the nobler and more difficult verse of Virgil . Writings of Ovid . vii WRITINGS OF OVID . I. vi The Life of Ovid .
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... ancient fancy rioted as freely as the modern fancy in novels and fairy - tales . Some of them may possibly be explained as a picturesque way of recounting natural phenomena , or as exaggerated tales of real events . But in general they ...
... ancient fancy rioted as freely as the modern fancy in novels and fairy - tales . Some of them may possibly be explained as a picturesque way of recounting natural phenomena , or as exaggerated tales of real events . But in general they ...
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... ancients . This aim is partly religious , and partly scientific , - if that can be called scientific which only fills with fancies a void that no science yet exists to fill . Thus the " Theo- gony of Hesiod groups together the myths ...
... ancients . This aim is partly religious , and partly scientific , - if that can be called scientific which only fills with fancies a void that no science yet exists to fill . Thus the " Theo- gony of Hesiod groups together the myths ...
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... ancient fancy a group of subjects suited to his graceful , ornate , and marvellously facile style of narrative , and who did not hesitate to alter or dress them up to suit his purpose . The " Metamorphoses - Libri xv . Metamorphoseon ...
... ancient fancy a group of subjects suited to his graceful , ornate , and marvellously facile style of narrative , and who did not hesitate to alter or dress them up to suit his purpose . The " Metamorphoses - Libri xv . Metamorphoseon ...
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... ancient sage , Numa seeks wisdom among the Greeks of Southern Italy ; [ whereby violating the Sabine law , he is accused , but acquitted , the black lots being changed by miracle to white in the urn ( XV . 1-59 ) ] . At Croton ...
... ancient sage , Numa seeks wisdom among the Greeks of Southern Italy ; [ whereby violating the Sabine law , he is accused , but acquitted , the black lots being changed by miracle to white in the urn ( XV . 1-59 ) ] . At Croton ...
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Seite 213 - Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view...
Seite 239 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Seite 8 - Ipsa quoque immunis rastroque intacta nee ullis saucia vomeribus per se dabat omnia tellus ; contentique cibis nullo cogente creatis arbuteos fetus montanaque fraga legebant cornaque et in duris haerentia mora rubetis 105 et quae deciderant patula lovis arbore glandes.
Seite 171 - CUM subit illius tristissima noctis imago, Qua mihi supremum tempus in Urbe fuit, Cum repeto noctem, qua tot mihi cara reliqui, Labitur ex oculis nunc quoque gutta meis.
Seite 6 - Amphitrite. utque erat et tellus illic et pontus et aer, sic erat instabilis tellus, innabilis unda, lucis egens aer: nulli sua forma manebat, obstabatque aliis aliud, quia corpore in uno frigida pugnabant calidis, umentia siccis, mollia cum duris, sine pondere habentia pondus.
Seite 5 - IN nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora ; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen...
Seite 181 - Notaque non tarde facta Thalia mea est. Carmina cum primum populo juvenilia legi, Barba resecta mihi bisve semelve fuit. Moverat ingenium totam cantata per Urbem Nomine non vero dicta Corinna mihi.
Seite 173 - Dum loquor et flemus, caelo nitidissimus alto, Stella gravis nobis, Lucifer ortus erat : Dividor haud aliter, quam si mea membra relinquam, Et pars abrumpi corpore visa suo est. Sic doluit Mettus tunc, cum in contraria versos 75 Ultores habuit proditionis equos.
Seite 179 - Protinus excolimur teneri curaque parentis imus ad insignes urbis ab arte viros. Frater ad eloquium viridi tendebat ab aevo, fortia verbosi natus ad arma fori; at mihi iam puero caelestia sacra placebant inque suum furtim Musa trahebat opus.
Seite 137 - ... in medium discenda dabat coetusque silentum dictaque mirantum magni primordia mundi et rerum causas et, quid natura, docebat, quid deus, unde nives, quae fulminis esset origo...