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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: COMMENTARY BOOK I a. Jilt ego, qui quondam gracili modulatus avena b. carmen, et egressus silvis vicina cocgi, c. ut yuamvis avido partrent arva colono, d. gratum opus agriiolis: at nunc horrentia Afartii arma virumque cano, etc.). In many manuscripts these four lines are prefixed to the first book of;he Aeneid. It is certain, however, that they did not form the usual opening in ancient times, for the Romans, who often quoted the first line of a book as its title, refer repeatedly to the Aeneid as thea/va virumque cano; it seems, therefore, probable that they are the work of some grammarian, who thus attempted to father off his own verses on to Virgil; though it is possible that Virgil himself may have written them when sending a sample piece of the Aeneid to some friend of his, not intending them, however, to belong to the work proper. a. modulatus: sc. sum. The line refers to the Bucolics. b. egressus silvis: having abandoned Bucolic poetry and gone over to the Georgics. vicina: with arva. c. quamvis avido: 'however greedy, i. e. 'even the greediest.' d. horrentia: with arma, thus connecting these preliminary lines with the real opening lines of the poem. The poet tells in brief his theme I. virum: Aeneas. primus: ' the first' to come to the Lavinian shores. Strictly speaking he was not the first to arrive in Italy; for Antenor and his companions were already settled in northern Italy. 2. Italian : the accusative of the ' place whither, ' sometimes called the 'accusative of the limit of motion.' In prose a preposition (ad or in) is usually found (except with the names of towns and small islands, which never take a preposition), but in poetry the preposition is usually omitted. Cp. V. 325; B. 182; A. 258; H. 418. Other il...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459028258 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459028252 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $24.58 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 138 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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