This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...ista suspicio, Har. R. 26 in eum cadit hoc verbum maxime. tua solatia, ' the pleasure you give us.' 21. 'Or who would sing the songs I lately stole in secret from your lips? tlbi is Menalcas, i. e. Virgil; and ll. 23-25 are a close version of Theocr. iii. 3-5: hence ' Virgil must be understood as indirectly praising ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...ista suspicio, Har. R. 26 in eum cadit hoc verbum maxime. tua solatia, ' the pleasure you give us.' 21. 'Or who would sing the songs I lately stole in secret from your lips? tlbi is Menalcas, i. e. Virgil; and ll. 23-25 are a close version of Theocr. iii. 3-5: hence ' Virgil must be understood as indirectly praising himself as the Roman Theocritus ' (Con.). 23, 24. dum redeo, ' while I am on my way home;' cp. Ter. Ad. ii. 1. 42 delibera hoc dum redeo. inter agendum, iv T i iavvtiv, 'while driving them.' 26. immo, ' nay, listen to this.' necdum, ' and that not finished' (Gk. Kal ravra, showing the loss which lovers of song would have suffered in the poet's death. 27, 28. The lands of Cremona had first been confiscated for the troops, and as they proved insufficient, a portion of the Mantuan territory was also taken (nimium vicina Cremonae. Virgil evidently hopes that through the aid of Varus the Mantuan territory may be restored. superet--supersit, as often. 30. sic, a common formula of adjuration = ' so may it be, according as;' cp. the biblical phrase ' So may God do to me, if...' Translate: 'If you would have your swarms avoid the yews of Corsica.' Cyrneas taxos, 'Corsican yews, ' Kvpvos being the Greek name for Corsica. Corsica does not seem to have been famous for yews, but its honey was notoriously bad; and as yews were bad for bees, Virgil, with a poet's freedom, ascribes it all to yew trees. 34. vatem. This, the oldest term for a poet, according to Varro and Enn. Ann. 222, was discarded on the introduction of Greek literature for the Greek 'poeta' (ttoojti?), which is applied to themselves by Ennius, Naevius, and Pacuvius, and to Homer by Ennius: vates being relegated to the signification of' soothsayers, ' 'oracle-mongers, ' and the like, in which ...
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