P Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Libri I Vi

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230133744
Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Libri Ii. the Narrative of Aeneas written by Virgil and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...connects it with Siko, the name of a Trojan hero or demigod, and he finds the same word appearing in Sigeum, Sichseus, and Scamauder. See Schliemann's Horn. eh. ii. 3. This point, as being nearest to the Grcek camp and fleet, would be the centre of the conflict. 616. limbo, "the robe"; Nimbo is the more common reading, ' a halo." Gorgone. Pallas had the head of Medusa on her shield. 617. Pater, i.e. Jnppiter. 622. inimica, numina, i.e. Juppiter, Juno, and Minerva. 627. Cf. 1. 492, labat ariete crebro. 628. certatim, ' one fiercer than another." 630. This simile is peculiarly vigorous and vivid. The quivering of the leafy top, the creak, groan, and final crash of the falling tree, are admirably drawn. 633. expedior, "I find my way clear." Cf. Hor. Od. iv. 4, 76--Curce sagaces expediunt per acuta belli. 634. perventum (est). The auxiliary verb is not omitted as a rule by Vergil, in relative clauses, except in those introduced by ubi. 636. prirnum, not his riches nor his property, but his father was his first care. 638. integer eevl. Cf. Hor. Od. i. 22, 1.--Integer vitas scelerisque purus. This genitive of respect, as it is usually termed, may have arisen from a combination of the locative sense, the objective genitive, and the Greek use of the genitive. Cf. anxius animi, animi fallit, etc. Or it may be an instrumental genitive, and we may transl. "Untainted of age." Perhaps, however, it is safer to rank it merely as a genitive of connection, this idea being really the fundamental notion of the genitive case. See Roby, 1321. 639. suo--robore, "their native vigour." 642. una, i.e. when Heracles destroyed the city in revenge for the perjury of Laomedon, who refused to give him, as he had promised, the steeds of Tros in return for...