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... verses are full of the feeling of the greatness of the Roman empire , the remote- ness of its frontiers , the immense charge which Caesar has taken on himself . And the names of distant and unknown places and tribes had a spell in ...
... verses are full of the feeling of the greatness of the Roman empire , the remote- ness of its frontiers , the immense charge which Caesar has taken on himself . And the names of distant and unknown places and tribes had a spell in ...
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... verse ( see next note ) with the sentence which fol- lows , have sometimes taken the words as a designation of the Romans who are contrasted with the Greeks , the objects of the preceding verses . Cp . the contrast of the two peoples in ...
... verse ( see next note ) with the sentence which fol- lows , have sometimes taken the words as a designation of the Romans who are contrasted with the Greeks , the objects of the preceding verses . Cp . the contrast of the two peoples in ...
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... verses ) , and that the subject of the Ode must , therefore , be not the State but the Republican party . Why , others ask , is it a Pontic pine , not some other - Idean , perhaps , as more suitable to the mythical origin of Rome ...
... verses ) , and that the subject of the Ode must , therefore , be not the State but the Republican party . Why , others ask , is it a Pontic pine , not some other - Idean , perhaps , as more suitable to the mythical origin of Rome ...
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... verses which Clement of Alexandria quotes , without giving the name of their author ( Strom . 5. 731 & Avpikós pnoi ) , belonged , as is commonly believed , to this poem , Horace's imitation cannot have extended beyond the mere ...
... verses which Clement of Alexandria quotes , without giving the name of their author ( Strom . 5. 731 & Avpikós pnoi ) , belonged , as is commonly believed , to this poem , Horace's imitation cannot have extended beyond the mere ...
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... verses have been intemperate , the lady shall put bounds to them in the only possible way . Compare Ovid's trope , Emendaturis ignibus , ' Trist . 4. IO . 62 . • 3. pones , the permissive future , you shall if you wish , ' see on Od . 1 ...
... verses have been intemperate , the lady shall put bounds to them in the only possible way . Compare Ovid's trope , Emendaturis ignibus , ' Trist . 4. IO . 62 . • 3. pones , the permissive future , you shall if you wish , ' see on Od . 1 ...
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adjective Aesch Alcaeus Apollo Apulia Asclepiad atque Augustus Bentley Caesar Cicero clause Compare consul contrast cura death deorum Diana Dill Dion domos dulce edition Ennius epithet Epod expression Faunus foll genitive gives Greek Hadriae Horace Horace's imply inter interpretation Introd Iovis Iuppiter Keller Line lyra Madv Maecenas manus mare meaning metaphor metre mihi nefas neque nunc Octavianus omnes Orelli Ovid pater perhaps poem poet poetry Porph probably puer quae quam quibus quid quis quod quotes reading reference Ritter Roman Rome Schol Scholia Scholiasts seems semper sense Sextus Pompeius sive Soph stanza Suetonius suggested Telephus Teucer tibi Tibur tion Troy unda Venus verb verse Virg Virgil wine word δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸ
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Page 356 - BEATUS ille, qui procul negotiis, Ut prisca gens mortalium, Paterna rura bobus exercet suis, Solutus omni fenore, Neque excitatur classico miles truci, Neque horret iratum mare, Forumque vitat et superba civium Potentiorum limina.
Page 277 - Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum.
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Page 16 - Maecenas signa tabellis/ dixeris, experiar: 'si vis, potes' ad dit et instat. 40 septimus octavo propior iam fugerit annus, ex quo Maecenas me coepit habere suorum in numero, dumtaxat ad hoc, quem tollere rueda vellet iter faciens, et cui concredere nugas hoc genus, 'hora quota est? Thraex est Gallina Syro par? 45 matutina parum cautos iam frigora mordent : ' et quae rimosa bene deponuntur in aure.
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Page 187 - ODI profanum vulgus et arceo : favete linguis ; carmina non prius audita Musarum sacerdos virginibus puerisque canto, regum timendorum in proprios greges, reges in ipsos imperium est lovis, clari Giganteo triumpho, cuneta supercilio moventis.