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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: r ille, niihi similis 'vultu similisquej decore i nee cantu nee voce minor. Felicia lassis saecula praestabit legumque silentia rumpet. Qualis discutiens fugientia Lucifer astra aut qualis surgit redeuntibus Hesperus astris, qualis cum primum tenebris Aurora solutis .'' ''V ( induxit rubicjffSaTdTemSol aspicit orbem ', j1- lucidus, et primes alcarcerejconcitat axes: o( talis Caesar adest, talem iam Roma'Neronem aspiciet. Flagrat nitidus fulgore remisso r f vultus, et adfuso cervix formosa capillo. . haec Apollo. At Lachesis, quae et ipsa homini for- mosissimo faveret, fecit illud plena manu, et Neroni multos annos de suo donat. Claudium autem iubent omnes Xo-ipovras, 7j/ioCi'Tas fKTre/j,7reiv So/judv. Et ille quidem mimam ebulliit, et ex eo desiit vivere videri. Exspiravit autem dum comoedos audit, ut scias me non sine causa illos timere.) Ultima vox eius haec inter homines audita est, cum maiorem sonitum 1 A fragment from the Cresphontes of Euripides (Nauck, 452)- Like me in face and lovely grace, like me in voice and song, He'll bid the laws at length speak out that have been dumb so long, Will give unto the weary world years prosperous and bright. Like as the daystar from on high scatters the stars of night, As, when the stars return again, clear Hesper brings his light, Or as the ruddy dawn drives out the dark, and brings the day, As the bright sun looks on the world, and speeds along its way His rising car from morning's gates: so Caesar doth arise, So Nero shows his face to Rome before the people's eyes; His bright and shining countenance illumines all the air, While down upon his graceful neck fall rippling waves of hair. Thus Apollo. But Lachesis, quite as ready to cast a favourable eye on a handso...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217531665 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217531660 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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