Clivus. Elementary Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse

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Σελίδα 81 - gave his conqueror, (when) forced to go before his triumphal wheels. Then as consul he moves new wars, and conquers and routs alike the bands of the Cimbri and the Teutonic (bands). That day shone for Marius the brightest of his life,
Σελίδα 5 - need-of talk and jests ; and the Muse loves to pour the pleasant song. Spiteful winter comes : to conquer spiteful winter thus it-is-allowed, and to spend days in-joyful fashion. The Gods. Jupiter holds supreme sway 1 in-heavenly citadel; Neptunus duly curbs waters of sea. Amid Tartarean shades Pluto most-cruel bears sceptre : l to each brother his-own
Σελίδα 75 - enters the shores of Libyan Carthage; 5 and a thousand ships bear Romans across the seas. He overthrows mighty cities, and fortresses as a victor, and with many a soldier ravages the Tyrian wealth. Carthage sought peace : he denies it to her seeking, nor allows leagues to be made on just condition. 10 Therefore
Σελίδα 44 - an olive grows in-cultivated soil. Nor was-she-able to curb a vain tongue, but voluntarily she-challenges eternal gods to her-own loss. 6 10 " Lo ! I," she-said, " most-illustrious with-fourteen children : this race Latona would-wish to have for-herself. She indeed is the wife of Jove and the mother of gods, but is only able to-have-given-birth-to twins.
Σελίδα 12 - Hercules. First against the huge lion under the rock of Nemea I-bore weapons : the lion gives me his-skin to bear. The Hydra raged-furiously, inhabitant of the Lernasan marsh; but it-perished, when fire brought aid to-my-club. A hind very dear to Diana the woods of Arcadia 5 inhabited : the arrow shot overtakes the hind. A remarkable boar
Σελίδα 65 - Next he adorns a priest with sumptuous robes, to worship eternal Jove, not without incense. And the twelve shields' fallen from heaven above he gives to the Salii, to be carried duly on holy day. The same king was able to shut the gate of Janus, 15 which is always open, when the people is waging
Σελίδα 74 - Pyrrhus, and curbs and drives his unknown beasts. 10 Fabricius comes as ambassador, and the powerful king he meets, but his heart is without base fear. [2] His heart is without fear, though with noise and threats the Indian monster puts forth his terrible trunk. Nor less could he despise offered coins,
Σελίδα 74 - Renowned he was in peace; the same most renowned in war; nor was he willing to gain glory by base fraud. 20 He was unwilling to mix poison against Pyrrhus' life: honourable he despised the aid of the faithless physician. " This man, if you can turn the sun from his course,
Σελίδα 71 - he says—" a gift which a friend offers; take this: thus the city will yield to you its conquered powers. For the first lads of the blood of the Falisci I give you: thus their fathers will give themselves and their country." 10 Camillus with Roman mind hates treachery, and utters
Σελίδα 19 - The enemies pass-by : they-carry bows and darts : countless feet resound through the thickets. 10 The enemies pass-by : at-once all terror flies : and immediately hunger returns with returning hope. 6 The wild-vine has-given (her) help in-its-thick recesses : forgetful of the help, she-gets food thence. For with-careless tooth she-gnaws the leafy branches, 15

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