The Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil: With Notes, Excursus, Terms of Husbandry, and A Flora VirgilianaWhittaker and Company, 1847 - 396 pages |
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Page vi
... young men , from reading and unde standing the rural poetry of Virgil , and learning som thing of the agriculture of the ancients , may have the curiosity excited about that of the present day , and thu be led to acquire a taste for ...
... young men , from reading and unde standing the rural poetry of Virgil , and learning som thing of the agriculture of the ancients , may have the curiosity excited about that of the present day , and thu be led to acquire a taste for ...
Page xiii
... young poet of Mantua , and gave him his patronage and his friendship . The third eclogue was Virgil's next production . This was most probably written in 710-12 , or 711-13 , after he had obtained the friendship of Pollio . We should be ...
... young poet of Mantua , and gave him his patronage and his friendship . The third eclogue was Virgil's next production . This was most probably written in 710-12 , or 711-13 , after he had obtained the friendship of Pollio . We should be ...
Page xiv
... young poet's property , may have e erted his influence in his favour with Maecenas , the friend a adviser of Caesar , to whom the task of rewarding their joi legions had been committed by Antonius . Virgil visite Rome , now probably for ...
... young poet's property , may have e erted his influence in his favour with Maecenas , the friend a adviser of Caesar , to whom the task of rewarding their joi legions had been committed by Antonius . Virgil visite Rome , now probably for ...
Page xx
... young into shape . Donatu tells us it was a tradition , that when writing the Georgio he used every morning to dictate a number of verses , and the work on them through the day till he had reduced them to very few . He also says that he ...
... young into shape . Donatu tells us it was a tradition , that when writing the Georgio he used every morning to dictate a number of verses , and the work on them through the day till he had reduced them to very few . He also says that he ...
Page xxv
... young Pollio appears to have received an excellent education . In the one - and - twentieth year of his age ( 698–700 ) he made his first appearance in public life as the accuser of C. Cato for having violated the laws in his tri ...
... young Pollio appears to have received an excellent education . In the one - and - twentieth year of his age ( 698–700 ) he made his first appearance in public life as the accuser of C. Cato for having violated the laws in his tri ...
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amor ancients Apollo atque bucolic Caesar called canibus carmina circum Colum Columella corn Cornelius Gallus Corydon cura Damoetas Daphnis eclogue Ennius etiam fetus flumina Forbiger Gallus Geor Georgics give Greek haec herbas Hesiod Heyne Hinc Horace horses illa inter Iollas ipsa ipse Italy Jahn kind land Latin Lucretius Mantua Martyn means Menalcas mihi Mopsus Mythology neque nunc observe omnes Omnia Ovid pecori perhaps plants Plin Pliny plough poem poet Pollio primum probably quae quam quid quis quod quoque Roman Rome saepe says seems segetes sense Servius sheep shepherd silvae sing sunt suppose tamen tantum term terrae Theocritus Thessaly tibi Tityrus trees ulmos umbra usual Varro venit verb verse viii vines Virgil Voss Wagner word δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸ τὸν ὡς
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Page 55 - Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.
Page 20 - Maenalios mecum, mea tibia, versus, saevus Amor docuit natorum sanguine matrem commaculare manus ; crudelis tu quoque, mater : crudelis mater magis, an puer improbus ille? improbus ille puer ; crudelis tu quoque, mater.
Page 11 - At tibi prima, puer, nullo munuscula cultu errantes hederas passim cum baccare tellus mixtaque ridenti colocasia fundet acantho. 20 Ipsae lacte domum referent distenta capellae ubera, nec magnos metuent armenta leones.
Page 7 - Dardaniusque Paris. Pallas, quas condidit arces, Ipsa colat ; nobis placeant ante omnia silvae. Torva leaena lupum sequitur; lupus ipse capellam ; Florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella; Te Corydon, o Alexi : trahit sua quemque voluptas.
Page 44 - Qui nunc extremis Asiae jam victor in oris Imbellem avertis Romanis arcibus Indum. Salve, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus, Magna virum ; tibi res antiquae laudis et artis Ingredior, sanctos ausus recludere fontes, ns Ascraeumque cano Romana per oppida carmen.
Page 10 - Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites. Et vitula tu dignus et hic, et quisquis amores aut metuet dulces, aut experietur amaros.
Page 53 - ... ipse dies agitat festos fususque per herbam, ignis ubi in medio et socii cratera coronant, te libans, Lenaee, vocat, pecorisque magistris velocis iaculi certamina ponit in ulmo, 530 corporaque agresti nudant praedura palaestrae.
Page 6 - Thestylis et rapido fessis messoribus aestu 10 allia serpyllumque herbas contundit olentes ; at mecum raucis, tua dum vestigia lustro, sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadis. nonne fuit satius, tristes Amaryllidis iras atque superba pati fastidia ? nonne Menalcan, quamvis ille niger, quamvis tu candidus esses ? o formose puer, nimium ne crede colori ; alba ligustra cadunt, vaccinia nigra leguntur.
Page 29 - ... alternis idem tonsas cessare novales, et segnem patiere situ durescere campum ; aut ibi flava seres mutato sidere farra, unde prius laetum siliqua quassante legumen aut tenuis fetus viciae tristisque lupini sustuleris fragiles calamos silvamque sonantem.
Page 44 - An memorem portus Lucrinoque addita claustra Atque indignatum magnis stridoribus aequor, Julia qua ponto longe sonat unda refuso Tyrrhenusque fretis immittitur aestus Avernis ? Haec eadem argenti rivos aerisque metalla 165 Ostendit venis, atque auro plurima fluxit.