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according appears atque authority bees called common comp compared connected course Cyrene Daphnis doubt doubtless Eclogue epithet evidently explained expression fact foll Forb force former Georgics give given Greek ground haec Heyne horses imitated imply instances intended inter introduced ipse Italy Keightley kind labour language latter less Lucr mean meant mentioned merely mind nature notion object occurs original passage pastoral perhaps Pliny plough poem poet poetry present probably quae question quid quod quoted reading reference remarks Roman says seems sense Serv Servius shepherd similar sing song speaking suggested supported supposed taken terra Theocr thing thinks thought tibi tion trees Varro vine Virgil Voss Wagn whole writers
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Page 49 - Pingue tenent humilis Forenti, Ut tuto ab atris corpore viperis Dormirem et ursis, ut premerer sacra Lauroque collataque myrto, Non sine dis animosus infans.
Page 246 - Sicyonia baca trapetis, glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae ; 520 et varios ponit fetus autumnus, et alte mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis. Interea dulces pendent circum oscula nati, casta pudicitiam servat domus, ubera vaccae lactea demittunt, pinguesque in gramine laeto 525 inter se adversis luctantur cornibus haedi.
Page 156 - He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names.
Page 59 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 183 - Scylla capillo; 405 quacumque illa levem fugiens secat aethera pennis, ecce inimicus atrox magno stridore per auras insequitur Nisus; qua se fert Nisus ad auras, illa levem fugiens raptim secat aethera pennis.
Page 57 - Bacchi 30 et foliis lentas intexere mollibus hastas. vitis ut arboribus decori est, ut vitibus uvae, ut gregibus tauri, segetes ut pinguibus arvis, tu decus omne tuis. postquam te Fata tulerunt, ipsa Pales agros atque ipse reliquit Apollo. 35 grandia saepe quibus mandavimus hordea sulcis, infelix lolium et steriles nascuntur avenae ; pro moll i viola, pro purpureo narcisso carduus et spinis surgit paliurus acutis.
Page 343 - miseram et te perdidit, Orpheu, Quis tantus furor ? En iterum crudelia retro Fata vocant, conditque natantia lumina somnus. lamque vale : feror ingenti circumdata nocte Invalidasque tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas.
Page 206 - Sed neque Medorum silvae ditissima terra nec pulcher Ganges atque auro turbidus Hermus laudibus Italiae certent, non Bactra neque Indi totaque turiferis Panchaia pinguis harems.
Page 342 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 342 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lowered, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
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| Title | P. Vergili Maronis opera: The Eclogues and Georgics. 1858 Bibliotheca classica Volume 1 of P. Vergili Maronis opera: The works of Virgil, Henry Nettleship |
| Author | Virgil |
| Contributor | John Conington |
| Publisher | Whittaker, 1858 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 11 Aug 2006 |
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