The Aeneid of Vergil: Books I-VI, Selections VII-XII, Books 1-6Scott, Foresman, 1900 - 763 pages |
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Aeneas Aeneas's Aeneid aequis aequor aethere agmina alta altō Anchises animis antec Apollo ārās arma Ascanius atque aurās aurō bellō caelō caelum caestus Carthage circum coniunx constr Creusa dextra dictis Dido dīvum dōna enim erat freely genus gods Greeks haec haud Helenus hinc hōc hunc Iamque illa ille ingēns instr inter ipse Italiam Iuppiter Jupiter Latin litora manus mihi Mnestheus moenia multa mūrōs namque neque nōn noun numina nunc omnis ōra ōre pater pectore phrase poets procul prose prtcpl quae quam quid quis quō quod rēgna Roman Rutuli sanguine scansion sẽ sēsē sidera subj super tantō tantum tēla terga terra Teucri thought tibi transferred epithet Trojans Troy Turnus umbris undās urbe urbem ventis Venus verb Vergil verse viri virōs virum Vocab vōs word
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Page 8 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd ; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Page 8 - Thou majestic in thy sadness at the doubtful doom of human kind; Light among the vanish'd ages; star that gildest yet this phantom shore; Golden branch amid the shadows, kings and realms that pass to rise no more; 700 "ROMAN VIRGIL" 701 Now thy Forum roars no longer, fallen every purple Caesar's dome — Tho...
Page 8 - Now the Rome of slaves hath perish'd, and the Rome of freemen holds her place, I, from out the Northern Island sunder'd once from all the human race...
Page 76 - Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition, still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.
Page 451 - Immanem veluti pécora inter inertia tigrim. Continuo nova lux oculis effulsit, et arma Horrendum sonuere ; tremunt in vértice cristae Sanguineae, clipeoque micantia fulmina mittit.
Page 442 - Talia dicta dabat; sed viribus ensis adactus Transabiit costas et Candida pectora rumpit. Volvitur Euryalus leto, pulchrosque per artus It cruor, inque...
Page 76 - Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled...
Page 442 - ... inquit ; simul ense recluso ibat in Euryalum. turn vero exterritus, amens, conclamat Nisus nee se celare tenebris...
Page 369 - Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, Perqué domos Ditis vacuas, et inania régna : Quäle per incertain lunam sub luce maligna Est iter in silvis, ubi coelum condidit umbra lupiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem. Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci...
Page 18 - ... air, to keep up their health and strength and to fit them for military duty. The greatest works performed in the time of Augustus were those by which Rome was converted from a very plain city into the most magnificent capital in the ancient world. It was a favorite boast of the Emperor that he found Rome a city of brick, but left it a city of marble; and this he truly did, as the splendid edifices which he erected were constructed principally of the latter material.