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... Light - hearted , imagina- tive , impressible , he was soon drawn into the vortex of the brilliant but dissolute society of the Capital . Rome was now no longer the home of heroes , of men sum- moned from the field to the senate - house ...
... Light - hearted , imagina- tive , impressible , he was soon drawn into the vortex of the brilliant but dissolute society of the Capital . Rome was now no longer the home of heroes , of men sum- moned from the field to the senate - house ...
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... light upon many peculiar no- tions of the Greeks and Romans . 3. POEMS OF EXILE . Tristia , ' Sorrows . ' In five ... lights the hardships and wretched- ness of the poet's life at Tomi . Ibis , Ibis . ' So named from an Egyptian wading ...
... light upon many peculiar no- tions of the Greeks and Romans . 3. POEMS OF EXILE . Tristia , ' Sorrows . ' In five ... lights the hardships and wretched- ness of the poet's life at Tomi . Ibis , Ibis . ' So named from an Egyptian wading ...
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... light handling of mytho- logical personages , once attempted successfully , naturally did not stop . The same spirit which inspired Ovid led the witty Lucian , a century later , to make the gods and goddesses objects of the keenest ...
... light handling of mytho- logical personages , once attempted successfully , naturally did not stop . The same spirit which inspired Ovid led the witty Lucian , a century later , to make the gods and goddesses objects of the keenest ...
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... light so many that in outline at least are common to all , or nearly all , the Indo - European peo- ples , that their dissemination from the parent - folk appears certain . That a considerable number of myths should have spread from one ...
... light so many that in outline at least are common to all , or nearly all , the Indo - European peo- ples , that their dissemination from the parent - folk appears certain . That a considerable number of myths should have spread from one ...
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... light , whether of the morning or of the evening . " ( Cox , Mythology of the Aryan Nations , ' p . 389. ) With this view Herbert Spencer agrees in many points , offering , however , his own explanation of the way that the powers of ...
... light , whether of the morning or of the evening . " ( Cox , Mythology of the Aryan Nations , ' p . 389. ) With this view Herbert Spencer agrees in many points , offering , however , his own explanation of the way that the powers of ...
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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.