Selections from Latin Poets: With Brief Notes |
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aequore Alcaeus Alcaic Amastri amores aquae atque aura battle of Actium Carm CARMEN Catullus Catullus's Choliambic Cicero Colchis dactyl dative dedit deos dextra Ennius erat erit Glyconic gods Greek Hadriae haec hinc Horace illa ille imitation inter Iovis ipse Iuppiter Latin Lesbia logaoedic manus Martial Metre Metre Elegiac Distich Metre Phalaecean Metrical translations mihi modo multa Nepos neque nihil nomen nulla nunc omnes opus Ovid pater pedem Pelias Phaedrus Phalaecean or Hendecasyllabic poem poeta poetry poets pote puella puer pumice Pyrrhus quae quam quid quis quod quoque Roman Rome Romulus saepe Sapphic semper sibi Simonides simul Sirmio Stanza strophes subjunctive sunt syllable tamen tantum terra tibi Tibullus translation in Sellar TROCHAIC trochee unda Venus verb Verg Vergil verse word δὲ καὶ
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Page 19 - Think what with them they would do That without them dare to woo ; And unless that mind I see, What care I how great she be ? Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair: If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve : If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go ; For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be ? George Wither.
Page 19 - Row us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione row ! So they row'd, and there we landed — 'O venusta Sirmio!' There to me thro' all the groves of olive in the summer glow, There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow, Came that
Page 17 - tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. 202 Sir And. A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. Sir To. A contagious breath. Sir And. Very sweet and contagious, i
Page 7 - VIVAMVS, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis. soles occidere et redire possunt : nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, ? nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Page 19 - ... 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...
Page 28 - And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool ? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
Page 18 - Mors atra? precor : non hic mihi mater quae legat in maestos ossa perusta sinus, non soror, Assyrios cineri quae dedat odores et fleat effusis ante sepulcra comis, Delia non usquam; quae me cum mitteret urbe, 10 dicitur ante omnes consuluisse deos.
Page 22 - Laudat rura sui : mox reficit rates Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati. Est, qui nee veteris pocula Massici, Nee partem solido demere de die, Spernit ; nunc viridi membra sub arbuto Stratus, nunc ad aquae lene caput sacrae.
Page 51 - Arma gravi numero violentaque bella parabam Edere, materia conveniente modis. Par erat inferior versus; risisse Cupido Dicitur atque unum surripuisse pedem.
Page 52 - Ingrato vocem prostituisse foro. Mortale est, quod quaeris, opus : mihi fama perennis Quaeritur, in toto semper ut orbe canar.