Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... connected ( uninterrupted ) narrative from the very beginning of the world to my own times : i.e. to the days of Augustus , when Ovid lived . The poet was born B. c . 43 , and died at the age of sixty , in exile , consequently his death ...
... connected ( uninterrupted ) narrative from the very beginning of the world to my own times : i.e. to the days of Augustus , when Ovid lived . The poet was born B. c . 43 , and died at the age of sixty , in exile , consequently his death ...
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... connection with his name , to distinguish him for respect to the deities of Olympus : Virgil , perhaps , more particularly on account of his natural affection . 38. " Virgo Astræa , " the virgin Astræa , who was the daughter of Jupiter ...
... connection with his name , to distinguish him for respect to the deities of Olympus : Virgil , perhaps , more particularly on account of his natural affection . 38. " Virgo Astræa , " the virgin Astræa , who was the daughter of Jupiter ...
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... connected with penitus , penetro , & c .; and was applied , from the cireum- stance of their being worshipped in the penus , or innermost part of the house . But , as there were various kinds of " Lares , " so there were Penates public ...
... connected with penitus , penetro , & c .; and was applied , from the cireum- stance of their being worshipped in the penus , or innermost part of the house . But , as there were various kinds of " Lares , " so there were Penates public ...
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... connected with the English wade . 59. " Irroravere vestibus et capiti liquores libatos inde , ' sprinkled upon their garments and head water taken from it , ( i.e. the Cephisus ) -referring to the custom of sprinkling or washing with ...
... connected with the English wade . 59. " Irroravere vestibus et capiti liquores libatos inde , ' sprinkled upon their garments and head water taken from it , ( i.e. the Cephisus ) -referring to the custom of sprinkling or washing with ...
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... connected with " datæ , " has an allusion to the gloomy cave where the response was given ; joined to " latebris , " it means ambiguous , mysterious . 78. " Promethides " is Deucalion , the son of Prometheus ( from go , before , and ...
... connected with " datæ , " has an allusion to the gloomy cave where the response was given ; joined to " latebris , " it means ambiguous , mysterious . 78. " Promethides " is Deucalion , the son of Prometheus ( from go , before , and ...
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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.