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... expressions , however , are not only always ambiguous , but not unfrequently inconsistent with each other ; at one time he seems inclined to throw the whole blame upon his unlucky poem ; at another he insinuates , with little ...
... expressions , however , are not only always ambiguous , but not unfrequently inconsistent with each other ; at one time he seems inclined to throw the whole blame upon his unlucky poem ; at another he insinuates , with little ...
Page 97
... expression of rivers running back- wards seems to have been applied proverbially , among the Greeks , to anything ... expressing his astonishment at the resolution of Iccius , Od . 1. 29 , 10 ' Quis neget arduis Pronos relabi posse rivos ...
... expression of rivers running back- wards seems to have been applied proverbially , among the Greeks , to anything ... expressing his astonishment at the resolution of Iccius , Od . 1. 29 , 10 ' Quis neget arduis Pronos relabi posse rivos ...
Page 98
... agitation , thus ' attoniti micuere sinus ' -- ' corda micant regis ' — ' pulsantur trepidi corde micante sinus , ' & c . , are all Ovidian expressions . 41. Classe peracta , the reading adopted by Burmann and 98 NOTES . 1 .
... agitation , thus ' attoniti micuere sinus ' -- ' corda micant regis ' — ' pulsantur trepidi corde micante sinus , ' & c . , are all Ovidian expressions . 41. Classe peracta , the reading adopted by Burmann and 98 NOTES . 1 .
Page 100
... expression still more complicated ; to this we have a parallel in Martial . 7. 51 , 7 ' Si tenet absentis nostros cantatque libellos . ' The same idiom is found in Greek , Hom . Il . 3. 180 Δαὴρ αὖτ ̓ ἐμὸς ἔσκε κυνώπιδος , εἴ ποτ ̓ ἔην ...
... expression still more complicated ; to this we have a parallel in Martial . 7. 51 , 7 ' Si tenet absentis nostros cantatque libellos . ' The same idiom is found in Greek , Hom . Il . 3. 180 Δαὴρ αὖτ ̓ ἐμὸς ἔσκε κυνώπιδος , εἴ ποτ ̓ ἔην ...
Page 102
... expression , to prevent it from being misunderstood , or taken up too strongly . The pride of Oenone here takes alarm lest her language should be supposed to imply a feeling of unworthiness or unfitness for so high a station . Thus Prop ...
... expression , to prevent it from being misunderstood , or taken up too strongly . The pride of Oenone here takes alarm lest her language should be supposed to imply a feeling of unworthiness or unfitness for so high a station . Thus Prop ...
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