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... soil : but they are of great service in the most rotten morasses , affording the only secure ground to tread upon ; which they effect by the strong matting of their roots . Aut Ararim Parthus bibet , aut Germania Tigrim . ] 8 BUCOLIC ...
... soil : but they are of great service in the most rotten morasses , affording the only secure ground to tread upon ; which they effect by the strong matting of their roots . Aut Ararim Parthus bibet , aut Germania Tigrim . ] 8 BUCOLIC ...
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... soil , is married to him , bears him children , and at last , being moved by jealousy , mur- ders even those harmless infants . Crudelis tu quopue , mater . ] Burman thinks that Venus , the mother of Cupid , is meant in this place ; but ...
... soil , is married to him , bears him children , and at last , being moved by jealousy , mur- ders even those harmless infants . Crudelis tu quopue , mater . ] Burman thinks that Venus , the mother of Cupid , is meant in this place ; but ...
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... soil should be ploughed , and when a poor one . Deucalion vacuum lapides , & c . ] The story of Deucalion is in the first book of Ovid's Metamor- phosis . We are there told that , when the world was destroyed by a deluge , Deucalion ...
... soil should be ploughed , and when a poor one . Deucalion vacuum lapides , & c . ] The story of Deucalion is in the first book of Ovid's Metamor- phosis . We are there told that , when the world was destroyed by a deluge , Deucalion ...
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... soil . Columella says it is so exceedingly noxious , that it is not safe to sow it , unless you have a prospect of great advan- tage from it . Urunt lethæo perfusa papavera somno . ] Poppies were com- monly sown by the ancients ; not ...
... soil . Columella says it is so exceedingly noxious , that it is not safe to sow it , unless you have a prospect of great advan- tage from it . Urunt lethæo perfusa papavera somno . ] Poppies were com- monly sown by the ancients ; not ...
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... soil be poor or worn out . This is the generally received interpretation : but Gri- moaldus gives another sense to this passage . He takes it to mean that , though you should sow flax , oats , or poppies , which greatly exhaust the ...
... soil be poor or worn out . This is the generally received interpretation : but Gri- moaldus gives another sense to this passage . He takes it to mean that , though you should sow flax , oats , or poppies , which greatly exhaust the ...
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adeo Æneid æquor amor Amyntas ancients Apollo atque Augustus Bacchus beautiful bees cæli cælo called canibus carmina Catrou cattle Cerda Ceres circum colour Columella corn Corydon cura Damotas Daphnis deities Ducite eclogue epithet erit etiam express famous flowers flumina fourth Georgick Frigidus fruit Galatea Gallus Greek hæc herbas Hesiod Hinc illis illum inter ipsa ipse Italy Julius Cæsar Jupiter Mantua Menalcas mentioned mihi Mopsus mountain namque neque Nunc nymphs olive omnes Omnia passage pastoral pecori pingues plant Pliny plough poet poet means poetry Pollio primum quæ quam Quid quis quoque rastris river Romans Rome Ruæus sæpe says Scythia seems segetes semper Servius sheep shepherds shews signifies sort speaks Strabo tamen tantum tells terra terræ Theocritus Thessaly Thrace tibi tion Tityrus trees ulmos umbra venit verses vines Virgil whence word
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Page 94 - Audieras, et fama fuit ; sed carmina tantum nostra valent, Lycida, tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt aquila veniente columbas.
Page 127 - Ceres ferro mortales vertere terram instituit, cum iam glandes atque arbuta sacrae deficerent silvae et victum Dodona negaret. mox et frumentis labor additus, ut mala culmos 150 esset robigo, segnisque horreret in arvis carduus : intereunt segetes, subit aspera silva, lappaeque tribulique, interque nitentia culta infelix lolium et steriles dominantur avenae.
Page 125 - Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque per artem Movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, Nee torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno.
Page 102 - EXTREMUM hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem. pauca meo Gallo, sed quae legat ipsa Lycoris, carmina sunt dicenda : neget quis carmina Gallo...
Page 20 - Aspice, aratra iugo referunt suspensa iuvenci, et sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras: me tamen urit amor : quis enim modus adsit amori? Ah Corydon Corydon, quae te dementia cepit? Semiputata tibi frondosa vitis in ulmo est. 70 Quin tu aliquid saltem potius, quorum indiget usus, viminibus mollique paras detexere iunco? invenies alium, si te hic fastidit, Alexim.
Page 39 - Teque adeo decus hoc aevi, te consule, inibit, Pollio, et incipient magni procedere menses, te duce, si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri, irrita perpetua solvent formidine terras, ille deum vitam accipiet, divisque videbit 15 permixtos heroas, et ipse videbitur illis, pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem.
Page 4 - Fortunate senex, ergo tua rura manebunt! et tibi magna satis, quamvis lapis omnia nudus limosoque palus obducat pascua iunco.
Page 12 - At mecum raucis, tua dum vestigia lustro, sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadis. Nonne fuit satius, tristes Amaryllidis iras atque superba pati fastidia? nonne Menalcan, 15 quamvis ille niger, quamvis tu candidus esses? O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori; alba ligustra cadunt, vaccinia nigra leguntur.
Page 52 - Apollo. 35 grandia saepe quibus mandavimus hordea sulcis, infelix lolium et steriles nascuntur avenae; pro molli viola, pro purpureo narcisso carduus et spinis surgit paliurus acutis.