Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... father's rank and fortune . From his earliest years , his poetic taste led him to the study and composition of verse , the cultivation of which unfitted him for the duties of the forum , for which his father had intended him . Indeed ...
... father's rank and fortune . From his earliest years , his poetic taste led him to the study and composition of verse , the cultivation of which unfitted him for the duties of the forum , for which his father had intended him . Indeed ...
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... father Hyperion , one of the Titans . Hyperion is presumed to have first given the theory of the motions of the sun , moon , and planets : hence he is the fabled father of Phoebus , Luna , Aurora , & c . Titan , perhaps derived from Tu ...
... father Hyperion , one of the Titans . Hyperion is presumed to have first given the theory of the motions of the sun , moon , and planets : hence he is the fabled father of Phoebus , Luna , Aurora , & c . Titan , perhaps derived from Tu ...
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... father " -hence Jupiter signifies the father who gives life — the life - dispenser . 22. " Nec ( et non ) ager renovatus , " and the land with- out being ploughed : -lit : not renewed . 23. " Jam " jam , " at one time - at another ...
... father " -hence Jupiter signifies the father who gives life — the life - dispenser . 22. " Nec ( et non ) ager renovatus , " and the land with- out being ploughed : -lit : not renewed . 23. " Jam " jam , " at one time - at another ...
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... father's cause , and dethroned Titan , restoring the sceptre to Saturn , whose subsequent cruel and ungrate- ful conduct provoked Jupiter , eventually , to expel him . On leaving Crete , the exiled monarch sought refuge in Italy , a ...
... father's cause , and dethroned Titan , restoring the sceptre to Saturn , whose subsequent cruel and ungrate- ful conduct provoked Jupiter , eventually , to expel him . On leaving Crete , the exiled monarch sought refuge in Italy , a ...
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... father - i.e . consults the astrolo- gers when his parents are likely to die , that he may obtain the inheritance as soon as possible . 37. “ Pietas , ” natural affection ; more generally duty to the gods , to our parents or benefactors ...
... father - i.e . consults the astrolo- gers when his parents are likely to die , that he may obtain the inheritance as soon as possible . 37. “ Pietas , ” natural affection ; more generally duty to the gods , to our parents or benefactors ...
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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.