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amid arms Assaracus Ausonia's bands battle bear behold bend beneath blood breast breath call'd camp Carthage Carthaginian Celtoe chief clouds conq'ring Consul courser croud crown'd Dardanian darts death deeds deep dreadful e'er earth ensigns equal Eridanus ev'n ev'ry eyes Fabius falchion fam'd fame fatal fate father fav'ring fear field fierce fight fix'd flame flood fury giv'n gods grief ground hands Hannibal haste head heav'n hills honor host impell'd jav'lin Jove land Latian leader Libyan limbs lofty mighty mind mix'd neighb'ring night numbers Numicus o'er Oenotrian plain pow'r Punic race rage rais'd renown'd resound rise rocks Roman Rome rushing Rutulian sacred Saguntum scatter'd seas shades shews shield shining shore Sidonian Silius SILIUS ITALICUS sire skies slaughter spear spread steed stood Stygian sudden summits swift sword Synalus Tarpeian rocks thee thou Thrasimenus thro Ticinus toil tow'rs trembling Tyrian valor Varro walls warlike warrior waves wound youth
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Page xxvi - High, and as the rainbow giving light in the bright clouds: and as the flower of roses in the spring of the year, as lilies by the rivers of waters, and as the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of summer...
Page xxxiii - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page v - Scendere querit homo, sed Mors docet omnia quo sint Nostra loco. Latio quid profuit arma potenti. Quid tectis inferre faces? quid federa mundi Turbare atque urbes tristi miscere tumultu?
Page v - Dixit: tum liber in auras spiritus egreditur, spatiis unde altior aequis 915 despiceret Romam, simul et Carthaginis urbem; ante diem felix abiens, ne summa videret excidia, et claris quod restat dedecus armis, fraternosque suosque simul patriaeque dolores.
Page iv - ... natus homo in terris! ammalia cunta quiescunt; irrequietus homo, perque omnes anxius annos ad mortem festinat iter. Mors, optima rerum, tu retegis sola errores, et somnia vite discutis exacte.