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Page 31
... fierce boars . No colds shall hinder me from traversing with my hounds the Parthenian lawns 12 around . Now over rocks and resounding groves methinks I roam : pleased I am to shoot Cydonian shafts from the Parthian bow : [ Fool that I ...
... fierce boars . No colds shall hinder me from traversing with my hounds the Parthenian lawns 12 around . Now over rocks and resounding groves methinks I roam : pleased I am to shoot Cydonian shafts from the Parthian bow : [ Fool that I ...
Page 64
... fierce east winds continually are crushing and tearing , yield each their different produce : they yield pines , an useful wood for ships , and cedars and cy- presses for houses . Hence the husbandmen have rounded spokes for wheels ...
... fierce east winds continually are crushing and tearing , yield each their different produce : they yield pines , an useful wood for ships , and cedars and cy- presses for houses . Hence the husbandmen have rounded spokes for wheels ...
Page 76
... fierce ; nor do the unshapely bears usually spread so numerous ravages and such havoc in the woods : then ferocious is the boar , then most fell the tiger . It is then , alas ! unhappy wandering in the desolate fields of Libya . See you ...
... fierce ; nor do the unshapely bears usually spread so numerous ravages and such havoc in the woods : then ferocious is the boar , then most fell the tiger . It is then , alas ! unhappy wandering in the desolate fields of Libya . See you ...
Page 79
... fierce Roman , when armed for his country , he takes his way under the unequal load , and , having pitched his camp , stands in array of battle against the foe , before he is expected . But not so , where are the Scythian nations , and ...
... fierce Roman , when armed for his country , he takes his way under the unequal load , and , having pitched his camp , stands in array of battle against the foe , before he is expected . But not so , where are the Scythian nations , and ...
Page 81
... fierce breed of dogs . 45 Iberians , the Spaniards were so called , from Iberus , ( the Ebro , ) a large river of Spain . Calabrian lawns . Calabria is a country in the south of Italy , an- ciently part of Magna Græcia . G renewed and ...
... fierce breed of dogs . 45 Iberians , the Spaniards were so called , from Iberus , ( the Ebro , ) a large river of Spain . Calabrian lawns . Calabria is a country in the south of Italy , an- ciently part of Magna Græcia . G renewed and ...
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