Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... Greece with the Scripture history of the general deluge . Iapetus has been conjectured to be the same as Japhet . 53. " Quumque cetera animalia , prona , spectent terram , " and since other animals , stooping downwards , look to the ...
... Greece with the Scripture history of the general deluge . Iapetus has been conjectured to be the same as Japhet . 53. " Quumque cetera animalia , prona , spectent terram , " and since other animals , stooping downwards , look to the ...
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... , the third son , by introducing funeral rites into Greece , which was then in a very barbarous d state , was supposed worthy of respect or deification н 2 NOTES TO PAGE 9 . 77 they are represented with one circular eye in their fore- ...
... , the third son , by introducing funeral rites into Greece , which was then in a very barbarous d state , was supposed worthy of respect or deification н 2 NOTES TO PAGE 9 . 77 they are represented with one circular eye in their fore- ...
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... Greece , famous for its Mount Par- nassus and the oracle of Delphi . In this province , also , was the plain of Crissa , where were celebrated the Pythian games , in honour of Apollo . 5. Parnassus , a mountain of Phocis , was the ...
... Greece , famous for its Mount Par- nassus and the oracle of Delphi . In this province , also , was the plain of Crissa , where were celebrated the Pythian games , in honour of Apollo . 5. Parnassus , a mountain of Phocis , was the ...
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... Greece , and the blending of these with the authentic history of the general Deluge given in Genesis . 7. " Cum consorte tori , " with the partner of his couch ; i.e. Pyrrha . 8. " Corycidas nymphas , " the Corycian nymphs ; so called ...
... Greece , and the blending of these with the authentic history of the general Deluge given in Genesis . 7. " Cum consorte tori , " with the partner of his couch ; i.e. Pyrrha . 8. " Corycidas nymphas , " the Corycian nymphs ; so called ...
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... Greece were the Olym- pic , Isthmian , and Nemean . The contests consisted in running , leaping , wrestling , boxing , and quoit - playing ; and the victor's reward was a laurel wreath . 34. " Capiebat honorem æsculeæ frondis , " was in ...
... Greece were the Olym- pic , Isthmian , and Nemean . The contests consisted in running , leaping , wrestling , boxing , and quoit - playing ; and the victor's reward was a laurel wreath . 34. " Capiebat honorem æsculeæ frondis , " was in ...
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Seite 1 - Sic erat instabilis tellus, innabilis unda, lucis egens ae'r : nulli sua forma manebat, obstabatque aliis aliud, quia corpore in uno frigida pugnabant calidis, humentia siccis, mollia cum duris, sine pondere habentia pondus.
Seite 45 - ... excute virgineo conceptas pectore flammas, si potes, infelix! si possem, sanior essem; sed trahit invitam nova vis, aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet. video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.
Seite 4 - Ipsa quoque immunis rastroque intacta nee ullis saucia vomeribus per se dabat omnia tellus...
Seite 29 - Phaethon, rutilos flamma populante capillos, volvitur in praeceps longoque per aera tractu fertur, ut interdum de caelo stella sereno etsi non cecidit, potuit cecidisse videri. quem procul a patria diverso maximus orbe excipit Eridanus, fumantiaque abluit ora.
Seite 76 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Seite 21 - Saeculaque et positae spatiis aequalibus Horae, Verque novum stabat cinctum florente corona ; Stabat nuda Aestas et spicea serta gerebat ; Stabat et Autumnus calcatis sordidus uvis, Et glacialis Hiems, canos hirsuta capillos. 30 Incle loco medius rerum novitate paventem Sol oculis juvenem, quibus adspicit omnia, vidit, Quaeque viae tibi causa? quid hac, ait, arce petisti, Progenies, Phaethon, baud infitianda parenti?
Seite 2 - ... orbem. sic ubi dispositam, quisquis fuit ille deorum, congeriem secuit sectamque in membra redegit : principio terram, ne non aequalis ab omni parte foret, magni speciem glomeravit in orbis.