The Penguin Book of Latin Verse: With Plain Prose Translations of Each PoemFrederick Brittain |
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... body , destroyed by a birth - giving death , grows hot , and its very heat generates a flame , conceiving the fire from above , from the luminary in the sky . The body burns , is consumed , and is reduced to ashes . Nature welds these ...
... body , destroyed by a birth - giving death , grows hot , and its very heat generates a flame , conceiving the fire from above , from the luminary in the sky . The body burns , is consumed , and is reduced to ashes . Nature welds these ...
Page 82
... body , but from there to the tip of your tail your skin is rough and dry . Nor can I be silent about you , perch , the highlight of our dinner- table . Among freshwater fish you are worthy of being classed with saltwater fish , and you ...
... body , but from there to the tip of your tail your skin is rough and dry . Nor can I be silent about you , perch , the highlight of our dinner- table . Among freshwater fish you are worthy of being classed with saltwater fish , and you ...
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... body with a great cry . ' Kill , kill , ' it exclaims in its own tongue , and so it slowly fails , by reason of the labour of its song . Throbbing only in its beak throughout all its shattered organs , the nightingale is almost lifeless ...
... body with a great cry . ' Kill , kill , ' it exclaims in its own tongue , and so it slowly fails , by reason of the labour of its song . Throbbing only in its beak throughout all its shattered organs , the nightingale is almost lifeless ...
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General Editors Foreword | xlix |
SAINT AMBROSE c 34097 at first an advocate and a civil | l |
CONRAD CELTIS 14591508 the son of a German vintner | liv |
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accentual verse Adeste fideles aetas aeterni regis Alleluia amavit cras amet amavit quique amavit amet qui nunquam atque blessed caeli century Christ crucis Cujus cuncta Cytorus death decus Deus dost Dulce dulcis earth ergo Father flowers glory gratia Haec heart heaven heavenly Heu mihi misero Hinc holy hymns illa inter ipsa ipse JACOB BALDE Jesus juventus king Latium let him love Lord loved love tomorrow Lully mater Mnestheus modo mortis mother neque never loved nihil nobis nomen nunc amet nunquam amavit quique omnes omnia omnis patris poems poets praise puellae quae quaeque Qualia quam quid quique amavit cras quod rejoice saecula Saint semper Sequence sibi sing Sirmio song soul Spirit sunt sweet tamen terra thee thine things thou didst tibi Tomorrow let tuis Tunc ulmos umbras Veni venit VINCENT BOURNE virgin virgo vita