Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... According to the opinion of the ancients , the earth was an extended plain girdled by the encircling ocean " circumfluus humor . " FABLE II . THE CREATION OF MAN . AFTER the separation of the four elements , the god now gives form ...
... According to the opinion of the ancients , the earth was an extended plain girdled by the encircling ocean " circumfluus humor . " FABLE II . THE CREATION OF MAN . AFTER the separation of the four elements , the god now gives form ...
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... According to the Platonic philosophy the stars were intelligent beings , or actuated by such . It is well known too , that the planets , and the more G 43. 66 conspicuous fixed stars , and the constellations themselves NOTES TO PAGE 3 . 61.
... According to the Platonic philosophy the stars were intelligent beings , or actuated by such . It is well known too , that the planets , and the more G 43. 66 conspicuous fixed stars , and the constellations themselves NOTES TO PAGE 3 . 61.
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... according to tradition , fixed upon the Morea , as best adapted to the rearing of silk worms , which were first brought from China into Europe during his reign . as these insects live principally on the leaves of the mulberry . 18 ...
... according to tradition , fixed upon the Morea , as best adapted to the rearing of silk worms , which were first brought from China into Europe during his reign . as these insects live principally on the leaves of the mulberry . 18 ...
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... According to ancient belief , there was cloudless , perpetual spring upon its sum- mits , which according to some , were three times three hun- dred in number . From the continual snow and mists mantling its peaks , Olympus was ...
... According to ancient belief , there was cloudless , perpetual spring upon its sum- mits , which according to some , were three times three hun- dred in number . From the continual snow and mists mantling its peaks , Olympus was ...
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... according to the ancients , originated thus . When Juno was suckling Hercules , the child was on one occasion satia- ted ; and some of the milk fell , leaving a mark upon the sky . Aristotle appears to have entertained the proper notion ...
... according to the ancients , originated thus . When Juno was suckling Hercules , the child was on one occasion satia- ted ; and some of the milk fell , leaving a mark upon the sky . Aristotle appears to have entertained the proper notion ...
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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.