Virgil's Messianic Eclogue: Its Meaning, Occasion, & Sources : Three StudiesCritical examination of Vergil's fourth Eclogue. |
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... unnoticed ) result of making Lucina a consul ; for she is the only person to whom te consule in 1. 11 could then possibly refer , as the reader may see from the quotations below . degree of consciousness of the meaning of the Eclogue which.
... unnoticed ) result of making Lucina a consul ; for she is the only person to whom te consule in 1. 11 could then possibly refer , as the reader may see from the quotations below . degree of consciousness of the meaning of the Eclogue which.
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... unnoticed ) result of making Lucina a consul ; for she is the only person to whom te consule in 1. 11 could then possibly refer , as the reader may see from the quotations below . was expected the birth of the child which is the.
... unnoticed ) result of making Lucina a consul ; for she is the only person to whom te consule in 1. 11 could then possibly refer , as the reader may see from the quotations below . was expected the birth of the child which is the.
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... reader , at least , whose sense of humour is not some- what in abeyance ) that it is not of some mystical moral emblem , but of an actual mother and child , that we are meant to think . One of the sacred books of the Roman state ...
... reader , at least , whose sense of humour is not some- what in abeyance ) that it is not of some mystical moral emblem , but of an actual mother and child , that we are meant to think . One of the sacred books of the Roman state ...
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... Hesiod , Works and Days , 180. But the reader will find a full account of the Sibylline oracles and their sources in Dr Mayor's Essay . THE WONDERFUL CHILDHOOD 17 ceptions that helped to mould the 16 THE MESSIANIC IDEA IN VIRGIL.
... Hesiod , Works and Days , 180. But the reader will find a full account of the Sibylline oracles and their sources in Dr Mayor's Essay . THE WONDERFUL CHILDHOOD 17 ceptions that helped to mould the 16 THE MESSIANIC IDEA IN VIRGIL.
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... reader's attention is now invited . " Lo , the last age of Cuma's seer has come : Again the great millennial æon dawns . Once more the hallowed Maid appears , once more Kind Saturn reigns , and from high heaven descends The first - born ...
... reader's attention is now invited . " Lo , the last age of Cuma's seer has come : Again the great millennial æon dawns . Once more the hallowed Maid appears , once more Kind Saturn reigns , and from high heaven descends The first - born ...
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Æneas Aeneid allusion ancient Apollo Asconius Augustus birth born Cartault Catullus century B.C. child Christian consul consulship criticism dea nec dignata deus hunc mensa Dionysus divine doubt Eclogue Essays explanation express foll Fourth Eclogue Gallus golden age Greek Heraclitus Hercules Hesiod human idea Incipe incrementum infant interpreted Iovis Isaiah Italian Italy Julius Cæsar Jupiter language last four lines last line Latin lectus Libri Fatales Lucina meaning mensa Messiah mother Nec deus hunc nec dignata cubili Orphic parve puer passage peace poem poet poet's poetical Pollio Professor Ramsay prophet quae Quintilian quoted R. S. CONWAY refer Reinach REINACH'S VIEW risere parentes risu cognoscere matrem Roman Roman infant Rome Scaliger sceleris scholars Scribonia sense Servius Sibyl Sibylline Books Sibylline Oracles Skutsch smile suboles thou tion Tiphys TRANSLATION true Virgilian Turnus verses Virgil Warde Fowler words writings δὲ καὶ τε
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Page 128 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Page 107 - Thetim ratibus, quae cingere muris oppida, quae iubeant telluri infindere sulcos. alter erit tum Tiphys, et altera quae vehat Argo delectos heroas, erunt etiam altera bella atque iterum ad Troiam magnus mittetur Achilles...
Page 125 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 106 - ... damnosa quid non imminuit dies? aetas parentum peior avis tulit nos nequiores, mox daturos progeniem vitiosiorem.
Page 124 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 40 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, Orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent; Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento : Hae tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.
Page 2 - Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas. magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. 5 iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna, iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto. tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo, casta fave Lucina. tuus iam regnat Apollo.
Page 108 - Oh, cease! must hate and death return ? Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
Page 4 - At simul heroum laudes et facta parentis iam legere et quae sit poteris cognoscere virtus, molli paulatim flavescet campus arista, incultisque rubens pendebit sentibus uva, et durae quercus sudabunt roscida mella.
Page 121 - Hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, 'Augustus Caesar, Divi genus, aurea condet 'Saecula qui rursus Latio, regnata per arva