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... lines or passages of un- usual difficulty or unequal interest . The text follows the readings of Riese or Merkel , with the change of a word or two occasionally , in order to make the begin- ning of a selection more intelligible in the ...
... lines or passages of un- usual difficulty or unequal interest . The text follows the readings of Riese or Merkel , with the change of a word or two occasionally , in order to make the begin- ning of a selection more intelligible in the ...
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... lines , addressed to the ladies and recommending certain preparations for beautifying the complexion . Ars Amatoria , ' Art of Love . ' In three books , discussing ways of winning and retaining the affections . Remedia Amoris , Love ...
... lines , addressed to the ladies and recommending certain preparations for beautifying the complexion . Ars Amatoria , ' Art of Love . ' In three books , discussing ways of winning and retaining the affections . Remedia Amoris , Love ...
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... lines as Vergil , four times as many as Horace or Lucretius , eight times as many as Propertius , and more than fifteen times as many as Catullus or Tibullus . In so voluminous a writer it is remark- able that dull lines are not more ...
... lines as Vergil , four times as many as Horace or Lucretius , eight times as many as Propertius , and more than fifteen times as many as Catullus or Tibullus . In so voluminous a writer it is remark- able that dull lines are not more ...
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... line followed by a pentameter , in his other works . The elegiac verse was ordinarily used only in poems of a tender or plaintive cast . Ovid , however , finding it easier to handle than the hexameter , adopted it as the metre of ...
... line followed by a pentameter , in his other works . The elegiac verse was ordinarily used only in poems of a tender or plaintive cast . Ovid , however , finding it easier to handle than the hexameter , adopted it as the metre of ...
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... line is everywhere indented by inlets , with islands in the distance or near by . These conditions produce an endless variety of atmospheric changes . Here one finds dawn and twilight , hazy vistas and storm - scenes , of matchless ...
... line is everywhere indented by inlets , with islands in the distance or near by . These conditions produce an endless variety of atmospheric changes . Here one finds dawn and twilight , hazy vistas and storm - scenes , of matchless ...
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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.