Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... feet . In order to reach heaven , the giants placed Ossa on Olympus , and Pelion on Ossa . Jupiter threw down Pelion from Ossa , and shivered the summit of Olympus , thus preventing the impious race from accomplishing their audacious ...
... feet . In order to reach heaven , the giants placed Ossa on Olympus , and Pelion on Ossa . Jupiter threw down Pelion from Ossa , and shivered the summit of Olympus , thus preventing the impious race from accomplishing their audacious ...
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... feet ; and each a hundred hands - hence the epithets " anguipes , " and " cen- timanus . " 25. " Qua Nereus circumsonat totum orbem , " wherever Nereus roars around the whole world . Nereus , a sea - god , was son of Pontus and Terra ...
... feet ; and each a hundred hands - hence the epithets " anguipes , " and " cen- timanus . " 25. " Qua Nereus circumsonat totum orbem , " wherever Nereus roars around the whole world . Nereus , a sea - god , was son of Pontus and Terra ...
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... 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 . The Latins often com- pounded the Pans , Fauns , Satyrs , and Sylvans . The ape ...
... 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 . The Latins often com- pounded the Pans , Fauns , Satyrs , and Sylvans . The ape ...
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... feet , & c . The winged cap was called " Petasus , " ( from rerouas , to fly ) ; the herald's rod " caduceus , ' was represented with two serpents twined around it : this word seems connected with ungu , a herald , the being changed ...
... feet , & c . The winged cap was called " Petasus , " ( from rerouas , to fly ) ; the herald's rod " caduceus , ' was represented with two serpents twined around it : this word seems connected with ungu , a herald , the being changed ...
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... feet . It was usual to put beams of wood before the horses at the starting post to prevent them from running before the signal was given . " " 157. " Repulit , " withdrew . Copia immensi mundi facta est , " scope over the boundless ...
... feet . It was usual to put beams of wood before the horses at the starting post to prevent them from running before the signal was given . " " 157. " Repulit , " withdrew . Copia immensi mundi facta est , " scope over the boundless ...
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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.