Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... daughter of Augustus , whose well - known sensibility to the honour of his family may yield the strongest plausibility to the last . Among various other theories , it has been surmised that he was cognizant of a conspiracy against the ...
... daughter of Augustus , whose well - known sensibility to the honour of his family may yield the strongest plausibility to the last . Among various other theories , it has been surmised that he was cognizant of a conspiracy against the ...
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... daughter of Oceanus ( the ocean ) , and wife of Neptune , is here put for the sea itself . The term is derived from app , round , and Tiew , to tremble , from its constant motion ; or from the obsolete TREW , to pierce , from being ...
... daughter of Oceanus ( the ocean ) , and wife of Neptune , is here put for the sea itself . The term is derived from app , round , and Tiew , to tremble , from its constant motion ; or from the obsolete TREW , to pierce , from being ...
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... daughter of Hyperion and Thia ; and mother of the winds . Aurora , in this , as in similar passages , means simply the east supposed to be derived from avgia ga , the early hour ; or from the Hebrew " aoor ore , " rise of light ...
... daughter of Hyperion and Thia ; and mother of the winds . Aurora , in this , as in similar passages , means simply the east supposed to be derived from avgia ga , the early hour ; or from the Hebrew " aoor ore , " rise of light ...
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... daughter Proserpine was afterwards - from the same place -carried away by Pluto , to the infernal regions . Ceres is generally represented , carrying in one hand , corn or poppies ; in the other a torch , as if in search of her daughter ...
... daughter Proserpine was afterwards - from the same place -carried away by Pluto , to the infernal regions . Ceres is generally represented , carrying in one hand , corn or poppies ; in the other a torch , as if in search of her daughter ...
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... daughter of Jupiter and Themis ( Justice ) , and is often put for justice itself . Astræa of the Latins was the Ax of the Greeks . In the Golden Age , she , like most of the other deities of heaven , resided on the earth ; but grieved ...
... daughter of Jupiter and Themis ( Justice ) , and is often put for justice itself . Astræa of the Latins was the Ax of the Greeks . In the Golden Age , she , like most of the other deities of heaven , resided on the earth ; but grieved ...
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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.