The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & brothers, 1846 - 681 pages |
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Page 273
... Mæcenas , my lot will be a happy one indeed . 1-2 . 1. Mæcenas atavis , & c . " Mecenas , descended from regal ancestors . " Caius Cilnius Mæcenas , who shared with Agrippa the fa- vour and confidence of Augustus , and distinguished ...
... Mæcenas , my lot will be a happy one indeed . 1-2 . 1. Mæcenas atavis , & c . " Mecenas , descended from regal ancestors . " Caius Cilnius Mæcenas , who shared with Agrippa the fa- vour and confidence of Augustus , and distinguished ...
Page 276
... Mæcenas : an inferior reading . - Edera . " Ivy - crowns . " The species of ivy here allu- ded to is the Edera nigru , sacred to Bacchus , and hence styleď Aiovéola by the Greeks . It is the Edera poetica of Bauhin . Servius says that ...
... Mæcenas : an inferior reading . - Edera . " Ivy - crowns . " The species of ivy here allu- ded to is the Edera nigru , sacred to Bacchus , and hence styleď Aiovéola by the Greeks . It is the Edera poetica of Bauhin . Servius says that ...
Page 283
... , Antony and Cleopatra by the " house of Pelops , " Statilius Taurus by the god Mars , Marcus Titius oy Meriones , and Mæcenas by the son of Tydcus . 1. Scriberis Vario , & c . " Thou shalt EXPLANATORY NOTES . - BOOK I. ODE VI . 233.
... , Antony and Cleopatra by the " house of Pelops , " Statilius Taurus by the god Mars , Marcus Titius oy Meriones , and Mæcenas by the son of Tydcus . 1. Scriberis Vario , & c . " Thou shalt EXPLANATORY NOTES . - BOOK I. ODE VI . 233.
Page 305
... Mæcenas , who had signified to the poet his in- tention of spending a few days with him at his Sabine farm . Horace ... Mæcenas on his entrance into the theatre , after having , according to most commentators , recovered from a dangerous ...
... Mæcenas , who had signified to the poet his in- tention of spending a few days with him at his Sabine farm . Horace ... Mæcenas on his entrance into the theatre , after having , according to most commentators , recovered from a dangerous ...
Page 306
... Mæcenas were natives of Etruria , where the Tiber rises , and through which it in part flows . - 7 . Vaticani montis . The Vatican mount formed the prolon gation of the Janiculum towards the north , and was supposed to have de- rived ...
... Mæcenas were natives of Etruria , where the Tiber rises , and through which it in part flows . - 7 . Vaticani montis . The Vatican mount formed the prolon gation of the Janiculum towards the north , and was supposed to have de- rived ...
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