Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... born on the 20th of March B. c . 43 , at Sulmo- situated among the cold hills of the Peligni - 90 miles from Rome . His brother , who was exactly a year his senior , died in the twenty - first year of his age LIFE OF OVID. ...
... born on the 20th of March B. c . 43 , at Sulmo- situated among the cold hills of the Peligni - 90 miles from Rome . His brother , who was exactly a year his senior , died in the twenty - first year of his age LIFE OF OVID. ...
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... brother Titan he got the sovereignty of the world on condition that he would never rear any of his male children . For this end he devoured them all as soon as they were born , till the birth of Jupiter , whose mother Rhea deceived her ...
... brother Titan he got the sovereignty of the world on condition that he would never rear any of his male children . For this end he devoured them all as soon as they were born , till the birth of Jupiter , whose mother Rhea deceived her ...
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... brother : i.e. Nep- tune . To reduce this mythology to rational narrative , we may imagine that Saturn was king of Crete , and perhaps a part of Asia Minor . He was either succeeded or deposed by his son Jupiter , whose brother Neptune ...
... brother : i.e. Nep- tune . To reduce this mythology to rational narrative , we may imagine that Saturn was king of Crete , and perhaps a part of Asia Minor . He was either succeeded or deposed by his son Jupiter , whose brother Neptune ...
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... brother Epimetheus ( afterthought ) forgetting fraternal admonitions , took Pandora to wife . On presenting the beautiful box - her fatal dowry - to her enamoured husband , the winged blessings all flew heavenward again , while diseases ...
... brother Epimetheus ( afterthought ) forgetting fraternal admonitions , took Pandora to wife . On presenting the beautiful box - her fatal dowry - to her enamoured husband , the winged blessings all flew heavenward again , while diseases ...
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... brother was born in Delos . This island ( deλos , evident ) was formerly floating about the Ægean , or , as others say , beneath the sea , till fixed by Neptune , as the place where Latona might give birth to her children - Juno having ...
... brother was born in Delos . This island ( deλos , evident ) was formerly floating about the Ægean , or , as others say , beneath the sea , till fixed by Neptune , as the place where Latona might give birth to her children - Juno having ...
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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.