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. 1918 Excerpt: ...This striking simile has been rather hardly treated by commentators, both ancient and modern. Even Dr. Henry seems to me to be quite at sea about it, though positive that everyone else has totally 1 See Wissowa, " Religion und Kultus " (second edition), p. 268. a "Golden Bough " (third edition), vol. i., p. 268. ...
Read More
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. 1918 Excerpt: ...This striking simile has been rather hardly treated by commentators, both ancient and modern. Even Dr. Henry seems to me to be quite at sea about it, though positive that everyone else has totally 1 See Wissowa, " Religion und Kultus " (second edition), p. 268. a "Golden Bough " (third edition), vol. i., p. 268. misunderstood it. He insisted that silva and virgulta are one and the same thing, and when confronted with the epithet ingens attached to silva he translated it " the mighty brushwood, the brushwood considered in respect of its extent." This seems to me to put him out of court, for the picture he suggests is of a mountain clothed with brushwood all the way down, and this was most certainly not what was in Virgil's mind. The real picture is surely one of alpine regions, and cannot be realized (visualized is now the favourite word) any more than Tennyson's idyll in the Princess (" Come down, O Maid ") by anyone who is not familiar with real mountain landscapes in time of storm and snow. The picture that rises in my mind is that of a mountain range, whose summits are hidden in cloud, below which the snow is visible between the cloud and the pine-forests; below the broad steep slopes of dark pines, the silva, are the belts of deciduous trees and underwood (virgulta)--the underwood in which I have so often watched the warmth-loving birds of the Alps, the Pied Flycatcher or Bonelli's Warbler. These four stages of the clothing of the mountain seem to me clearly expressed by the poet. First the Centaurs are nubigenae, their lair is up there in the clouds;x there they were born, and thence they begin 1 Heyne saw this, and Conington quoting him with approval says that such an idea may have occurred to Virgil in the pres...
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings, In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 300grams, ISBN:
