Selections from Ovid

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Macmillan, 1879 - 78 Seiten

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Seite 49 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Seite 27 - ... cum cecidit fato consul uterque pari: si quid id est, usque a proavis vetus ordinis heres non modo fortunae munere factus eques.
Seite 30 - Cum subit illius tristissima noctis imago, Quae mihi supremum tempus in urbe fuit.
Seite 68 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Seite 33 - ... nescit, cui domino pareat, unda maris. nam modo purpureo vires capit Eurus ab ortu, nunc Zephyrus sero vespere missus adest, nunc sicca gelidus Boreas bacchatur ab Arcto, nunc Notus adversa proelia fronte gerit. 30 rector in incerto est nec quid fugiatve petatve invenit: ambiguis ars stupet ipsa malis.
Seite 27 - Imus ad insignes Urbis ab arte viros. Frater ad eloquium viridi tendebat ab aevo, Fortia verbosi natus ad arma fori. At mihi iam puero caelestia sacra placebant, 20 Inque suum furtim Musa trahebat opus. Saepe pater dixit: „Studium quid inutile temptas? Maeonides nullas ipse reliquit opes.
Seite 9 - Sint tantum reduces ! sed enim temerarius ille Est meus, et stricto quolibet ense ruit. Mens abit et morior, quotiens pugnantis imago Me subit, et gelidum pectora frigus habet.
Seite 7 - Sacra Palis suberant. inde movetur opus. Fossa fit ad solidum. fruges iaciuntur in ima, Et de vicino terra petita solo. Fossa repletur humo, plenaeque imponitur ara, Et novus accenso fungitur igne focus.
Seite 74 - own exceeding great reward ; ' it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Seite 31 - Adloquor extremum maestos abiturus amicos, Qui modo de multis unus et alter erant. Uxor amans flentem flens acrius ipsa tenebat, Imbre per indignas usque cadente genas. Nata procul Libycis aberat diversa sub oris, 20 Nec poterat fati certior esse mei.

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