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... earth , Ovid certainly should not be brought to task for fulsome praise at a time when his very life hung trembling in the Emperor's power . Though we may not admire Ovid in exile , we can well understand how , torn from his home , his ...
... earth , Ovid certainly should not be brought to task for fulsome praise at a time when his very life hung trembling in the Emperor's power . Though we may not admire Ovid in exile , we can well understand how , torn from his home , his ...
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... earth . For at least one great branch of the human family , - - the Indo - European , the distribution of myths from a common source seems well established . The comparison of languages long ago made it clear that the Hindoos and ...
... earth . For at least one great branch of the human family , - - the Indo - European , the distribution of myths from a common source seems well established . The comparison of languages long ago made it clear that the Hindoos and ...
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... earth , and heavenly bodies , and the natural phenomena connected with these , emphasizing particularly the sun , clouds , and dawn . The extreme advocates of this theory make even the Trojan war a form of the Sun - myth , Achilles ...
... earth , and heavenly bodies , and the natural phenomena connected with these , emphasizing particularly the sun , clouds , and dawn . The extreme advocates of this theory make even the Trojan war a form of the Sun - myth , Achilles ...
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... Earth , Erōs , Love , Erebos , Darkness , and Nyx , Night , came into being . From Erebos and Nyx sprang Aither , clear upper Sky , and Hemera , Day . Gaia produced Ouranos ( Latin Uranus ) , starry Heaven , Ourea , great Mountains ...
... Earth , Erōs , Love , Erebos , Darkness , and Nyx , Night , came into being . From Erebos and Nyx sprang Aither , clear upper Sky , and Hemera , Day . Gaia produced Ouranos ( Latin Uranus ) , starry Heaven , Ourea , great Mountains ...
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... earth . Gaia , resenting this treatment , incited the Titans to vengeance . She fashioned a strong sharp sickle , and showed Kronos how to do his father an irrepa- rable hurt . Kronos , lying in wait , inflicted the irremediable wound ...
... earth . Gaia , resenting this treatment , incited the Titans to vengeance . She fashioned a strong sharp sickle , and showed Kronos how to do his father an irrepa- rable hurt . Kronos , lying in wait , inflicted the irremediable wound ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acoetes aëra aether amor ancient Apollo aquae āre ārī ātum ātus sum auras āvī Bacchus Boeotia bracchia Cadmus caeli caelo caelum Caesar Ceres conj cura currus daughter death deorum Deucalion deus divinities domus earth enim erat ēre Falerii fuit goddess gods Greek haec heaven Iamque Iapetus ignes illa illic illis illo Inque Iovis ipsa ipse īre itum Iuppiter Jupiter king litora lumina manus medio METAMORPHOSES metonymy mihi modo Moenia mora Mythology myths neque Niobe nisi nulla numina nunc omnes omnia orbem ōris ōrum Ovid Perseus Phaëthon Phocis Phrygia poet pron Proserpina Pyrrha quae quam Quid quod quoque Roman Rome sacred simul sine Solis subst sunt synecdoche tamen tellus terras tibi trans undas Underworld undis Utque vidit vultus worship Zeus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring." 7. Quo luco : ' And in this grove,' about Fergus. 10. aequales : '.her mates.' legendo : se. flores. Why abl. ? 11. simul : here = eödem
Seite 282 - through whose channel.' So Milton ("Paradise Lost," ii. 582586): " Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former state and being forgets — Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain." 14. fecunda : because of the poppy's numerous seeds. Cf. P-
Seite 263 - visa fuisset. In the words of Pope (" Essay on Criticism ") : " Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Seite 190 - by reason of my death.' Milton (" Paradise Lost," Book x.) has expressed a similar thought : " How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap !" 25. TRISTIA, V. viii. 11-18. " The curse causeless shall not come.
Seite 175 - Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets." 24. venit modus : ' there came an end (of).
Seite 290 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the deaths of princes." SHAKSPEARE : Julius Caesar. 24. METAMORPHOSES, XV. 871-879. "Not marble, nor the gilded
Seite 106 - aquis, ubi conditus antro Martius anguis erat, cristis praesignis et auro; Igne micant oculi; corpus tumet omne veneno, Tresque vibrant linguae; triplici stant ordine dentés. Quern postquam Tyria lucum de gente profecti Infausto tetigere gradu, demissaque in undas 30 Urna dédit sonitum, longo caput extulit antro Caeruleus serpens horrendaque sibila misit. Effluxere urnae manibus, sanguisque
Seite 140 - Ite simul." Parent ambo, baculisque levati 70 Nituntur longo vestigia poneré clivo. Tantum aberant summo, quantum semel ire sagitta Missa potest; flexere oculos, et mersa palude Cetera prospiciunt, tantum sua tecta manere. Dumque ea mirantur, dum deflent fata suorum, 75 Ilia vetus, dominis etiam casa parva duobus Vertitur in templum; furcas subiere columnae,
Seite 246 - H. 398, 4. 82. summum stringitur: 'its surface is ruffled.' 83. suos amores : for suum amantem. So often in English " love " is similarly used, as in Spenser's " Epithalamion " : — " Open the temple gates unto my love ! Open them wide that she may enter in." 84. indignos : ie which deserved not such treatment. claro plangore : ' with clear-ringing shriek.' 85. comas : why ace. ? 86. cruori
Seite 254 - 1. 26. 123. Praecutiunt: at the head of the wedding procession, ignes : on the altars. Wedding ceremonies were accompanied by religious rites. 12. METAMORPHOSES, V. 385 et seq. " That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered—which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world.