Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... Italy to an error or inadvertence . Again , he regrets seeing what ought not to have met his eye ; and , it has been conjectured that , in this , he alludes to some of the intrigues of Julia the abandoned daughter of Augustus , whose ...
... Italy to an error or inadvertence . Again , he regrets seeing what ought not to have met his eye ; and , it has been conjectured that , in this , he alludes to some of the intrigues of Julia the abandoned daughter of Augustus , whose ...
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... Italy . Though it is generally allowed that Ovid follows Hesiod , yet it must be remembered that this Greek writer adopts the notions of Sanchoniatho , the Phoenician , who had ample opportunities of making him- self conversant with ...
... Italy . Though it is generally allowed that Ovid follows Hesiod , yet it must be remembered that this Greek writer adopts the notions of Sanchoniatho , the Phoenician , who had ample opportunities of making him- self conversant with ...
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... , " the fruit of the arbutus . arbutus or strawberry tree , abounds in Italy ; and the lakes of Killarney , in the south of Ireland , are famed for islands in which it grows so luxuriantly . By " fraga NOTES TO PAGE 4 . 63.
... , " the fruit of the arbutus . arbutus or strawberry tree , abounds in Italy ; and the lakes of Killarney , in the south of Ireland , are famed for islands in which it grows so luxuriantly . By " fraga NOTES TO PAGE 4 . 63.
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... Italy , a district of which - called Latium - received its name from the circumstance of his lying concealed ( a latendo ) , until he found an hospitable reception in the court of Janus , king of the country . The name Saturnus is ...
... Italy , a district of which - called Latium - received its name from the circumstance of his lying concealed ( a latendo ) , until he found an hospitable reception in the court of Janus , king of the country . The name Saturnus is ...
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... Italy the name of " Magna Græcia . " The Romulus of mythic history rather represents the chiefs that consolidated the nascent states and defended it by heroic prowess , than an individual ruler : just as Numa ( from voμos , a law ) ...
... Italy the name of " Magna Græcia . " The Romulus of mythic history rather represents the chiefs that consolidated the nascent states and defended it by heroic prowess , than an individual ruler : just as Numa ( from voμos , a law ) ...
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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.