Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... visible objects were at first held in reverence , or because the Supreme Deity was represented as all - seeing . Natura ( from nascor ) denotes the productive principle . 23. " Secrevit liquidum cœlum ab spisso aëre , " NOTES TO PAGE 1 .
... visible objects were at first held in reverence , or because the Supreme Deity was represented as all - seeing . Natura ( from nascor ) denotes the productive principle . 23. " Secrevit liquidum cœlum ab spisso aëre , " NOTES TO PAGE 1 .
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... represented as the creator of man . ( See Gen. i . 20. ) This confusion may be accounted for by supposing that Ovid combines current traditions regard- ing the inundations of Greece with the Scripture history of the general deluge ...
... represented as the creator of man . ( See Gen. i . 20. ) This confusion may be accounted for by supposing that Ovid combines current traditions regard- ing the inundations of Greece with the Scripture history of the general deluge ...
Seite 64
... war . The Iron Age represents men as throwing off all the restraints of religion and social duties , and then was the way prepared for divine vengeance being executed upon the earth , and its guilty inhabitants . 64 NOTES TO PAGE 4 .
... war . The Iron Age represents men as throwing off all the restraints of religion and social duties , and then was the way prepared for divine vengeance being executed upon the earth , and its guilty inhabitants . 64 NOTES TO PAGE 4 .
Seite 66
... represented , carrying in one hand , corn or poppies ; in the other a torch , as if in search of her daughter . Ceres of the Latins corresponded to Demeter of the Greeks - the latter coming from yn , the earth , and unrne , mother , or ...
... represented , carrying in one hand , corn or poppies ; in the other a torch , as if in search of her daughter . Ceres of the Latins corresponded to Demeter of the Greeks - the latter coming from yn , the earth , and unrne , mother , or ...
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... tradition seems to boast high antiquity , as he is represented as holding regal sway , during the mythic age , in Arcadia . In order to test the divinity of Jupiter , he murdered one of his 70 NOTES TO PAGE 6 . FABLE VI. ...
... tradition seems to boast high antiquity , as he is represented as holding regal sway , during the mythic age , in Arcadia . In order to test the divinity of Jupiter , he murdered one of his 70 NOTES TO PAGE 6 . FABLE VI. ...
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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.