Category: Poetry
THIS little book has been prepared to meet the needs of my own classes. The selections have been made primarily with reference to their literary merit, but also with the intention of introducing the student to a number of authors not usually read in the earlier portion of the...
_1._ 2. oppositast: equals opposita est. The joke turns on the double meaning of opponere, to expose and to mortgage. We may render the passage as,--My little farm is not expose...
6. Part 6_6._ Compare with Vergil's account of the oracle given by the Sibyl to Aeneas, _Aeneid_, 6. 9 ff. Some of the more obvious resemblances in diction and thought are _Aeneid_, 6. 1...
7. Part 7_11._ 1. Flaminiam: sc. viam. 2. noli...marmor: the roads leading out from Rome were lined with tombs. 3. salesque Nili: Paris appears to have been an Egyptian. 6. omnea Veneres...
4. Part 4Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt; vigilemus. Ecce minaciter imminet arbiter ille supremus. Imminet, imminet et mala terminet, aequa coronet, Recta remuneret, anxia liberet,...
3. Part 3Ille deo plenus, tacita quem mente gerebat, effudit dignas adytis e pectore voces: 'Quid quaeri, Labiene, iubes? An liber in armis occubuisse velim potius, quam regna videre? an...
2. Part 2Quis deus hanc, Musae, quis nobis extudit artem? Unde nova ingressus hominum experientia cepit? Pastor Aristaeus fugiens Peneia Tempe, amissis, ut fama, apibus morboque fameque,...
8. Part 8Robert, the son of Hugh Capet, to whom this hymn is commonly, but probably incorrectly, ascribed, became king of France in 988 A.D. He 'was a kindly, easy man, endowed with all...
1. Part 1THIS little book has been prepared to meet the needs of my own classes. The selections have been made primarily with reference to their literary merit, but also with the intenti...