Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... Deities it was -had divided the mass thus separated , and reduced it when thus divided into distinct elements ( its component parts ) . We observe here the heathen poet's vague and indefinite ideas of a Great Supreme . Deus , " in this ...
... Deities it was -had divided the mass thus separated , and reduced it when thus divided into distinct elements ( its component parts ) . We observe here the heathen poet's vague and indefinite ideas of a Great Supreme . Deus , " in this ...
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... 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 and Themis ( Justice ) , and is often put for justice itself ...
... 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 and Themis ( Justice ) , and is often put for justice itself ...
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... deities inhabit different places . The Romans con- ceived of their gods being thus divided from the division of their senators . " Nobiles " and " Plebs " may also refer to the patricians and plebeians . 12. " Posuere suos penates ...
... deities inhabit different places . The Romans con- ceived of their gods being thus divided from the division of their senators . " Nobiles " and " Plebs " may also refer to the patricians and plebeians . 12. " Posuere suos penates ...
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... deities , with horns on their heads , with human bodies , but having the legs and feet of a goat - they generally attended on Bacchus . The Sylvans ( so called from " sylva , " a wood ) were deities of the wood , as the name implies ...
... deities , with horns on their heads , with human bodies , but having the legs and feet of a goat - they generally attended on Bacchus . The Sylvans ( so called from " sylva , " a wood ) were deities of the wood , as the name implies ...
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... by the Greeks , were known at Rome as the Lupercalia . 58. " Dedi signa Deum venisse , " I gave tokens that a god had come . Deities were recognized as divine , even against their will , on some occasions - their beauty 74 NOTES TO PAGE 8 .
... by the Greeks , were known at Rome as the Lupercalia . 58. " Dedi signa Deum venisse , " I gave tokens that a god had come . Deities were recognized as divine , even against their will , on some occasions - their beauty 74 NOTES TO PAGE 8 .
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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.