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Page 63 - their marble rocks. Cf. Byron : 'The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! ***#**# Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.' ODE XV. A mythical ode, in which Nereus is represented as predicting the fall of Troy to Paris when carrying off Helen. 1. pastor] 'the shepherd,
Page 92 - God, God whose power is visible in all things, who 'hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meek." A very interesting little ode. Horace was at any rate fairly acquainted with and disposed to favour the philosophy of Epicurus. That philosophy had lately been brilliantly described in almost the grandest effort of
Page 78 - When shall (she) ever find a peer?' Cf. Milton's Lycidas 8, 'For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.'' Invenlet] Notice the singular after several subjects: the idiom is a favourite one with Horace.
Page 5 - rates transiliunt vada. audax omnia perpeti gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas. audax. lapeti genus ignem fraude mala gentibus intulit. post ignem aetheria domo subductum macies et nova febrium terris incubuit cohors, semotique prius tarda necessitas leti corripuit gradum. expertus vacuum Daedalus ae'ra pennis non homini datis; perrupit Acheronta Herculeus labor. nil mortalibus ardui
Page 94 - to battle. Cf. the lament of Atossa the mother of Xerxes in the Persae of Aeschylus, and the anxiety of the mother of Sisera, Judges v. 28, 'The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot BO long in
Page 34 - funus et imperio parabat contaminate cum grege turpium morbo virorum, quidlibet impotens sperare fortunaque dulci ebria. sed minuit furorem vix una sospes navis ab ignibus, mentemque lymphatam Mareotico redegit in veros timores Caesar, ab Italia volantem remis adurgens, accipiter velut molles columbas aut leporem citus venator in campis nivalis Haemoniae, daret ut
Page 14 - ille, seu Parthos Latio imminentes egerit iusto domitos triumpho, sive subiectos Orientis orae Seras et Indos, te minor latum reget aequus orbem; tu gravi curru quaties Olympum, tu parum castis inimica mittes fulmina lucis. CARMEN XIII. Cum tu, Lydia, Telephi cervicem roseam, cerea Telephi laudas brachia, vae meum fervens difficili bile tumet
Page 32 - ruris colonus, te dominam aequoris, quicunque Bithyna lacessit Carpathium pelagus carina. te Dacus asper, te profugi Scythae urbesque gentesque et Latium ferox regumque matres barbarorum et purpurei metuunt tyranni, iniurioso ne pede proruas stantem columnam, neu populus frequens ad anna cessantes, ad anna concitet imperiumque frangat. te semper anteit saeva
Page 17 - Teucer et Sthenelus sciens pugnae, sive opus est imperitare equis, non auriga piger; Merionen quoque nosces. ecce furit te reperire atrox Tydides melior patre, quern tu, cervus uti vallis in altera visum parte lupum graminis immemor, sublimi fugles mollis anhelitu, non hoc pollicitus tuae. iracunda diem proferet Ilio matronisque Phrygum classis Achille'i; post certas hiemes uret Acha'icus ignis Iliacas
Page 1 - toilers honoribus; ilium, si proprio condidit horreo, quidquid de Libycis verritur areis. gaudentem patrios findere sarculo agros Attalicis condicionibus nunquam dimoveas, ut trabe Cypria Myrtoum pavidus nauta secet mare, luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum mercator metuens otium et oppidi quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati. est qui nee veteris pocula Massici nee partem solido demere de die