The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & brothers, 1846 - 681 pages |
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... passage , speaks of Ilia as having married the god of the Tiber . According to the account which he gives , Ilia was buried on the banks of the Anio , and the river , having overflowed its borders , carried her remains down to the Tiber ...
... passage , speaks of Ilia as having married the god of the Tiber . According to the account which he gives , Ilia was buried on the banks of the Anio , and the river , having overflowed its borders , carried her remains down to the Tiber ...
Page 280
... passage . The whole may be rendered as follows : " The headlong fury of the south - west wind , contending with the north - eastern blasts . " - 14 . Tristes Hyadas . " The rainy Hyades . " The Hyades were seven of the fourteen ...
... passage . The whole may be rendered as follows : " The headlong fury of the south - west wind , contending with the north - eastern blasts . " - 14 . Tristes Hyadas . " The rainy Hyades . " The Hyades were seven of the fourteen ...
Page 281
... passages . The idea intended to be convey- ed is analogous to that implied in the rò xaλdy of the Greeks , ( " omne quod ... passage some Greek poet of Sicily , who , in depicting the approach of spring , lays the scene in his na- tive ...
... passages . The idea intended to be convey- ed is analogous to that implied in the rò xaλdy of the Greeks , ( " omne quod ... passage some Greek poet of Sicily , who , in depicting the approach of spring , lays the scene in his na- tive ...
Page 282
... passage may be paraphrased as follows : " Soon will the night of the Grave descend upon thee , and the Manes of fable crowd around , and the shadowy home of Pluto become also thine own . " The Zeugma in the verb premo , by which it is ...
... passage may be paraphrased as follows : " Soon will the night of the Grave descend upon thee , and the Manes of fable crowd around , and the shadowy home of Pluto become also thine own . " The Zeugma in the verb premo , by which it is ...
Page 285
... passage of Lucan ( 8. 248. ) " Claramque reliquit sole Rhodon . " Pliny ( H. N. 2. 62. ) informs us of a boast on the part of the Rhodians , that not a day passed during which their island was not illumined for an hour at least by the ...
... passage of Lucan ( 8. 248. ) " Claramque reliquit sole Rhodon . " Pliny ( H. N. 2. 62. ) informs us of a boast on the part of the Rhodians , that not a day passed during which their island was not illumined for an hour at least by the ...
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