P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum Eclogæ Decem: The Bucolicks of Virgil, with an English Translation and Notes |
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Page lvii
... plants , which are to spring up at the renova- tion of the golden age , are suited very well to pas- toral poetry . Cæsar and Anthony now made a new partition of the world ; all toward the east , from Codropo- lis , a town of Illyricum ...
... plants , which are to spring up at the renova- tion of the golden age , are suited very well to pas- toral poetry . Cæsar and Anthony now made a new partition of the world ; all toward the east , from Codropo- lis , a town of Illyricum ...
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... the Roman , Medicean , and some other manuscripts . Heinsius , and after him Burman , reads produxit ; but perduxit is the common and most approved reading . 75 pears , and plant your vines in rows . 26 P. VIRGILII MARONIS.
... the Roman , Medicean , and some other manuscripts . Heinsius , and after him Burman , reads produxit ; but perduxit is the common and most approved reading . 75 pears , and plant your vines in rows . 26 P. VIRGILII MARONIS.
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... plant your vines in rows . Go , my goats , go my once happy cattle . I shall no more see you afar off , hanging down from the bushy rock , whilst I repose myself in the mossy cave . No more shall I sing no more , my my hand the ...
... plant your vines in rows . Go , my goats , go my once happy cattle . I shall no more see you afar off , hanging down from the bushy rock , whilst I repose myself in the mossy cave . No more shall I sing no more , my my hand the ...
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... plant Virgil meant by ligustrum . All that can be gathered from what he has said of it is , that the flowers are white and of no value . says it is a tree ; for in the twenty- fourth chapter of the twelfth book , where he is speaking of ...
... plant Virgil meant by ligustrum . All that can be gathered from what he has said of it is , that the flowers are white and of no value . says it is a tree ; for in the twenty- fourth chapter of the twelfth book , where he is speaking of ...
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... plant intended , because the flowers are not fair enough , and yet are too sweet to be rejected with contempt . But it weighs something on the other side , that Pliny has called the ligustrum a tree in two different places . For though ...
... plant intended , because the flowers are not fair enough , and yet are too sweet to be rejected with contempt . But it weighs something on the other side , that Pliny has called the ligustrum a tree in two different places . For though ...
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Æneid Alexis alludes Amaryllis amor Amyntas ancient Anthony Apollo atque Augustus Bavius Boeotia Bucolicks Burman called carmina Catrou Cerda Cicero Codrus consul Corydon CREECH Damotas Daphnis deity Eclogue etiam expression flowers fourth Georgick Galatea Gallus Gaul goats Greek hæc Heinsius Hesiod Idyllium imitation inter interprets ipse Italy Julius Cæsar Lycidas Lycoris Mantua manuscripts Marcellus mean Menalcas mentions mihi Mopsus Muses nunc nymphs omnes opinion Ovid passage pastoral Pierius Pliny poem poet poetry Pollio procul quæ quam quid quod quoque Roman Rome Ruæus says second Georgick seems sense Servius sheep shepherd shew signifies Silenus sing sort speaks Strabo tamen tantum tells Theocritus thinks third Georgick tibi tion Tityrus translates Trapp trees Varus verses vine Virgil words γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν οἱ τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τῷ τῶν
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