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... Homer . What follows is the substance of the tale as narrated by Apollodorus . Hector was the first - born of Priam and Hecuba . When Hecuba was about to produce a second child , she dreamed that she had given birth to a blazing torch ...
... Homer . What follows is the substance of the tale as narrated by Apollodorus . Hector was the first - born of Priam and Hecuba . When Hecuba was about to produce a second child , she dreamed that she had given birth to a blazing torch ...
Page 96
... Homer ) in Mount Ida . Ex- tensive ruins mark the spot , now called ' Kutchunlu - Tepe , ' and a little way above these a small stream , believed to be the ' Cebren , ' falls into the ' Mendere , ' and is called the ' Kaz - dagh- tchai1 ...
... Homer ) in Mount Ida . Ex- tensive ruins mark the spot , now called ' Kutchunlu - Tepe , ' and a little way above these a small stream , believed to be the ' Cebren , ' falls into the ' Mendere , ' and is called the ' Kaz - dagh- tchai1 ...
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... Homer as an aged , wise , and eloquent counsellor , holding the same position among the Trojans which Nestor occupied among the Greeks . Tradition told , that having escaped from the sack of his native city , he led a band of exiles ...
... Homer as an aged , wise , and eloquent counsellor , holding the same position among the Trojans which Nestor occupied among the Greeks . Tradition told , that having escaped from the sack of his native city , he led a band of exiles ...
Page 104
... Homer . 114. Diffusis ... comis . Quod est furentis ; nam in fu- rorem rapiuntur vates , si viticinantur . ' The best commentary is the description given by Virgil of the Sibyl when possessed by the God . Ae . 6. 45 ' Ventum erat ad ...
... Homer . 114. Diffusis ... comis . Quod est furentis ; nam in fu- rorem rapiuntur vates , si viticinantur . ' The best commentary is the description given by Virgil of the Sibyl when possessed by the God . Ae . 6. 45 ' Ventum erat ad ...
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... Homer as having been the gathering - place of the Grecian fleet . Later poets told that the ships were long detained in that harbour by an adverse wind , raised by Artemis in vengeance for the death of a consecrated stag slain by ...
... Homer as having been the gathering - place of the Grecian fleet . Later poets told that the ships were long detained in that harbour by an adverse wind , raised by Artemis in vengeance for the death of a consecrated stag slain by ...
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Page 267 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 100 - Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.
Page 153 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page 266 - Ecce Sabinorum prisco de sanguine magnum agmen agens Clausus magnique ipse agminis instar, Claudia nunc a quo diffunditur et tribus et gens per Latium, postquam in partem data Roma Sabinis.
Page 189 - ... nam veneror, seu stipes habet desertus in agris seu vetus in trivio florida serta lapis: et quodcumque mihi pomum novus educat annus, libatum agricolae ponitur ante deo.
Page 83 - Est in conspectu Tenedos, notissima fama insula, dives opum, Priami dum regna manebant, nunc tantum sinus et statio male fida carinis : hue se provecti deserto in litore condunt.
Page 79 - Africo 5 antennaeque gemant ac sine funibus vix durare carinae possint imperiosius aequor? non tibi sunt Integra lintea, non di, quos iterum pressa voces malo.
Page 228 - MERCURI, facunde nepos Atlantis, Qui feros cultus hominum recentum Voce formasti catus, et decorae More palaestrae : Te canam, magni Jovis et deorum Nuntium, curvaeque lyrae parentem, Callidum, quidquid placuit, jocoso Conder-e furto.
Page 272 - Gramina. Nonne vides croceos ut Tmolus odores, India mittit ebur, molles sua tura Sabaei, At Chalybes nudi ferrum, virosaque Pontus Castorea, Eliadum palmas Epiros equarum...
Page 289 - ... hoc, ubi nunc fora sunt, udae tenuere paludes ; amne redundatis fossa madebat aquis. Curtius ille lacus, siccas qui sustinet aras, nunc solida est tellus, sed lacus ante fuit.