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... them by circumlocution ; as the epithet vooíquanos to a mountain , would appear little or ridiculous translated literally leaf - fhaking , but affords a majestic idea in the periphrafis : The lofty mountain shakes his waving woods .
... them by circumlocution ; as the epithet vooíquanos to a mountain , would appear little or ridiculous translated literally leaf - fhaking , but affords a majestic idea in the periphrafis : The lofty mountain shakes his waving woods .
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It is a great loss to the poetical world ' that Mr. Dryden did not live to translate the Iliad . He has left us only the first book , and a small part of the fixth ; in which if he has in fome places not truly interpreted the fenfe ...
It is a great loss to the poetical world ' that Mr. Dryden did not live to translate the Iliad . He has left us only the first book , and a small part of the fixth ; in which if he has in fome places not truly interpreted the fenfe ...
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The epithet Bon ayatos , which is applied in this and other places to Menelaus , and which literally fignifies loud - voiced , is made by the Commentators to mean valiant , and translated bello ftrenuus . The reason given by Euftathius ...
The epithet Bon ayatos , which is applied in this and other places to Menelaus , and which literally fignifies loud - voiced , is made by the Commentators to mean valiant , and translated bello ftrenuus . The reason given by Euftathius ...
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| Title | The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1 The Iliad of Homer, Alexander Pope |
| Author | Homer |
| Translated by | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | Charles Rivington, 1760 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Aug 25, 2006 |
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