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Page viii
... true path ' ( ignaros viae ) , and to help , like a Providence , to guide them aright ' . It would not then be an unnatural , though doubtless an incomplete account of the motive of the poem to suppose that Vergil , born and bred a ...
... true path ' ( ignaros viae ) , and to help , like a Providence , to guide them aright ' . It would not then be an unnatural , though doubtless an incomplete account of the motive of the poem to suppose that Vergil , born and bred a ...
Page ix
... true path , ' we could better judge how far the original was likely to help the farmers of its own day . But that some practical result was expected from the work may probably be inferred from the fact that it was suggested by Maecenas ...
... true path , ' we could better judge how far the original was likely to help the farmers of its own day . But that some practical result was expected from the work may probably be inferred from the fact that it was suggested by Maecenas ...
Page xii
... true purpose of the Georgics , and that not a temporary one . Perhaps the author and his readers dreamed the poem would serve a practical end , do something to set right the time , which was so sadly out of joint , by winning men back ...
... true purpose of the Georgics , and that not a temporary one . Perhaps the author and his readers dreamed the poem would serve a practical end , do something to set right the time , which was so sadly out of joint , by winning men back ...
Page xiv
... true method of dividing out a vineyard . In the second book this enthusiasm for his subject takes a specially winning form in his practice ( com- moner with modern than ancient poets ) of describing ' xiv INTRODUCTION .
... true method of dividing out a vineyard . In the second book this enthusiasm for his subject takes a specially winning form in his practice ( com- moner with modern than ancient poets ) of describing ' xiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xvi
... true that ' more is meant than meets the eye ; ' and a beginner often sees only what is artificial in his poetry , the over - refinement of phrase and diction , the inverted idioms and perplexing varia- tions on straightforward speech ...
... true that ' more is meant than meets the eye ; ' and a beginner often sees only what is artificial in his poetry , the over - refinement of phrase and diction , the inverted idioms and perplexing varia- tions on straightforward speech ...
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aequor aesculus ager alta arboribus arbos armenta arva Assistant-Master atque auro Bacchus Bactra bark called Cambridge casia cattle Columella Comp Conington corn dative deerunt earth Edited English enim etiam expression fetus frigora fruit frumentis Georg Georgics graft grapes Greek happy breed haud hence hendiadys Hesiod hiemps hinc husbandman illa India inglorius ipsa Ismara Italian Italy iuvencis laborem labour laeta land Lucretius Maecenas Marsi means namque nature neque nunc oleae olim olive omne omnia omnis oxen pausia perhaps pinguis planted plough poem poet pomis presso primum putre quae quam quid render robore Roman Rome rura saepe scilicet seges semina sere silvae slope soil Spanish broom stirpe sunt synaeresis tellus Tennyson tenui terga terrae things tibi tree ulmos venit Vergil verutum vines vineyard virgulta virum Volsci vomere wine wood word
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Page 22 - O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, agricolas; quibus ipsa procul discordibus armis fundit humo facilem victum iustissima tellus.
Page 14 - Aesculus in primis, quae, quantum vertice ad auras Aetherias, tantum radice in Tartara tendit. Ergo non hiemes illam, non flabra neque imbres Convellunt ; immota manet, multosque nepotes, Multa virum volvens durando saecula vincit; 295 Tum fortis late ramos et brachia tendens Hue illuc, media ipsa ingentem sustinet umbram.
Page 24 - Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, 49° atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari. Fortunatus et ille, deos qui novit agrestis, Panaque Silvanumque senem nymphasque sorores.
Page 16 - Non alios prima crescentis origine mundi inluxisse dies aliumve habuisse tenorem crediderim: ver illud erat, ver magnus agebat orbis, et hibernis parcebant flatibus euri, cum primae lucem pecudes hausere virumque 340 terrea progenies duris caput extulit arvis immissaeque ferae silvis et sidera caelo.
Page 25 - 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 23 - Me vero primum dulces ante omnia Musae, 475 quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore, accipiant caelique vias et sidera monstrent, defectus solis varios lunaeque labores ; unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant obicibus ruptis rursusque in se ipsa residant...
Page 8 - Massicus umor implevere; tenent oleae armentaque laeta. hinc bellator equus campo sese arduus infert ; hinc albi, Clitumne, greges et maxima taurus victima, saepe tuo perfusi flumine sacro, Romanos ad templa deum duxere triumphos.
Page 9 - Avernis? haec eadem argenti rivos aerisque metalla 165 ostendit venis atque auro plurima flu.xit. haec genus acre virum Marsos pubemque Sabellam adsuetumque malo Ligurem Volscosque verutos extulit, haec Decios Marios magnosque Camillos...
Page 16 - Sol nondum hiemem contingit equis, iam praeterit aestas ver adeo frondi nemorum, ver utile silvis; vere tument terrae et genitalia semina poscunt. tum pater omnipotens fecundis imbribus aether 325 coniugis in gremium laetae descendit et omnis magnus alit magno commixtus corpore fetus.
Page 7 - Sed neque Medorum silvae, ditissima terra, Nee pulcher Ganges atque auro turbidus Hermus Laudibus Italiae certent, non Bactra, neque Indi, Totaque turiferis Panchaia pinguis arenis.