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... mother's name was Maia , and his father was proba- bly a small landowner . Great attention must have been bestowed upon the education of our poet , as he appears to have been thoroughly imbued with the spirit of ancient philosophy by ...
... mother's name was Maia , and his father was proba- bly a small landowner . Great attention must have been bestowed upon the education of our poet , as he appears to have been thoroughly imbued with the spirit of ancient philosophy by ...
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... mother , whom he put to death for the injuries she had done to his mother , Antiope ; or from a fountain in Boeotia of that name . Aracynthus was a town on the confines of Attica and Boeotia where was the fountain Dirce : it is called ...
... mother , whom he put to death for the injuries she had done to his mother , Antiope ; or from a fountain in Boeotia of that name . Aracynthus was a town on the confines of Attica and Boeotia where was the fountain Dirce : it is called ...
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... mother by thy smiles ; 7 ten months brought on thy mother tedious qualms . Be- gin , young boy ; that child on whom his parents never smiled , nor god ever honoured with his table , nor goddess with her bed . ECLOGUE V. In this Eclogue ...
... mother by thy smiles ; 7 ten months brought on thy mother tedious qualms . Be- gin , young boy ; that child on whom his parents never smiled , nor god ever honoured with his table , nor goddess with her bed . ECLOGUE V. In this Eclogue ...
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... mother , embracing the hapless corpse of her son , reproached both gods and stars with cruelty . The swains , O Daphnis , then forgat to drive their fed cattle to the cooling streams : no quadruped either tasted of the brook , or ...
... mother , embracing the hapless corpse of her son , reproached both gods and stars with cruelty . The swains , O Daphnis , then forgat to drive their fed cattle to the cooling streams : no quadruped either tasted of the brook , or ...
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... goddess of love and beauty She was the wife of Vulcan , but passionately loved Adonis and Anchises ; by the latter she became the mother of Æneas . M. These verses I remember , and that vanquished Thyrsis 22 22 ECL . VII . 43-68 BUCOLICS .
... goddess of love and beauty She was the wife of Vulcan , but passionately loved Adonis and Anchises ; by the latter she became the mother of Æneas . M. These verses I remember , and that vanquished Thyrsis 22 22 ECL . VII . 43-68 BUCOLICS .
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