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The elegiac distich , apparently the first epodic Greek measure , became the
vehicle of expression for a wide variety of poetic sentiments , varying from funeral
song to erotic ecstasy . As compared with the hexameter the pentameter was ...
The elegiac distich , apparently the first epodic Greek measure , became the
vehicle of expression for a wide variety of poetic sentiments , varying from funeral
song to erotic ecstasy . As compared with the hexameter the pentameter was ...
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275 B.c. ) , and after living long at Athens transplanted to Alexandria to care for
the famous library , although a peculiarly ugly personality in character as well as
in figure , wrote voluminously in elegy as well as in other fields of poetry . It was
he ...
275 B.c. ) , and after living long at Athens transplanted to Alexandria to care for
the famous library , although a peculiarly ugly personality in character as well as
in figure , wrote voluminously in elegy as well as in other fields of poetry . It was
he ...
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Horace may sneer at the Roman disregard of poetic form and charge his own
generation with prefering money to culture . But similar pessimism is familiar in
every day . What poets and novelists have been rightly valued in their own time ?
Horace may sneer at the Roman disregard of poetic form and charge his own
generation with prefering money to culture . But similar pessimism is familiar in
every day . What poets and novelists have been rightly valued in their own time ?
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The first Roman elegist whose works have endured to our own time was C.
Valerius Catullus , a member of the new group of poets who were doing so much
to establish an Alexandrian school of poetry at Rome . He was born at Verona ,
the ...
The first Roman elegist whose works have endured to our own time was C.
Valerius Catullus , a member of the new group of poets who were doing so much
to establish an Alexandrian school of poetry at Rome . He was born at Verona ,
the ...
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There is no longer any question that this wonderful woman — amazing in her
powers for both good and ill - for whom the poet's significant pseudonym is
Lesbia , was the famous and unscrupulous belle of Rome in her day , Clodia ,
sister of P.
There is no longer any question that this wonderful woman — amazing in her
powers for both good and ill - for whom the poet's significant pseudonym is
Lesbia , was the famous and unscrupulous belle of Rome in her day , Clodia ,
sister of P.
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Seite 218 - I would have thee gone: And yet no further than a wanton's bird ; Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So lovingjealous of his liberty.
Seite 104 - of Catullus. 85 Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. 86 Quintia formosa est multis, mihi candida, longa, recta est. haec ego sic singula confiteor, totum illud " formosa
Seite 97 - 70 Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle quam mihi, non si se luppiter ipse petat. dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua. 72 Dicebas quondam solum te nosse Catullum, Lesbia, nee prae me
Seite 392 - tibi nomen erit! ille tui vates operis, tua fama, Tibullus ardet in extructo, corpus inane, rogo. ecce, puer Veneris fert eversamque pharetram et fractos arcus et sine luce facem. adspice, demissis ut eat miserabilis alis pectoraque infesta tundat aperta manu ! excipiunt lacrimas sparsi per colla capilli, oraque singultu concutiente sonant. fratris in Aeneae sic illum funere dicunt
Seite 408 - dique relinquendi, quos urbs habet alta Quirini, este salutati tempus in omne mihi! 35 et quamquam sero clipeum post vulnera sumo, attamen hanc odiis exonerate fugam caelestique viro, quis me deceperit error, dicite, pro culpa ne scelus esse putet, ut quod vos scitis, poenae quoque sentiat auctor: 40 placato possum non miser esse deo.
Seite 150 - errat ad obscuros pallida turba lacus. quam potius laudandus hie est quem prole parata 40 occupat in parva pigra senecta casa ! ipse suas sectatur oves, at filius agnos, et calidam fesso conparat uxor aquam. sic ego sim, liceatque caput candescere canis, temporis et prisci facta referre senem. 45 interea Pax arva colat. Pax
Seite 239 - Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste ; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste : And therefore is Love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
Seite 133 - vagus ignotis repetens conpendia terris 40 presserat externa navita merce ratem. illo non validus subiit iuga tempore taurus, non domito frenos ore momordit equus, non domus ulla fores habuit, non fixus in agris, qui regeret certis finibus arva, lapis. 45 ipsae mella dabant quercus, ultroque ferebant
Seite 417 - fama, parentales, si vos mea contigit, umbrae, et sunt in Stygio crimina nostra foro : scite, precor, causam — nec vos mihi fallere fas est — 90 errorem iussae, non scelus, esse fugae. manibus hoc satis est. ad vos, studiosa, revertor, pectora, qui vitae quaeritis acta meae. iam mihi canities pulsis melioribus annis
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Roman Elegiac Poets |
| Herausgeber | Karl Pomeroy Harrington |
| Verlag | American book Company, 1914 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Juni 2006 |
| Länge | 444 Seiten |
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