Tristia, Book 1Clarendon Press, 1885 - 115 pages |
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Page xviii
... says of his wife , — ' nec gemuisse minus quam si nataeque virique vidisset structos corpus habere rogos . ' Now , as his third wife had , by a former husband , a daughter of her own , married to Suillius Rufus , if Ovid's daughter had ...
... says of his wife , — ' nec gemuisse minus quam si nataeque virique vidisset structos corpus habere rogos . ' Now , as his third wife had , by a former husband , a daughter of her own , married to Suillius Rufus , if Ovid's daughter had ...
Page xx
... says , ' is protected in summer by the Danube stream ; but when winter comes all is frost and deep snow , which the sun has scarcely power to thaw . Nay , sometimes it lies throughout the whole year , and one year's snow is piled upon ...
... says , ' is protected in summer by the Danube stream ; but when winter comes all is frost and deep snow , which the sun has scarcely power to thaw . Nay , sometimes it lies throughout the whole year , and one year's snow is piled upon ...
Page xxi
... say that there was no one at Tomi to offer the poet literary sympathy . The place was so remote that it took a whole year to communicate with Rome , six months each way . We are thus enabled to realise the force of the persistent ...
... say that there was no one at Tomi to offer the poet literary sympathy . The place was so remote that it took a whole year to communicate with Rome , six months each way . We are thus enabled to realise the force of the persistent ...
Page xxv
... says that he was already fifty years old when he wrote it . This poem is an invective in 644 elegiac lines , written in imitation of a poem of similar name by the Alexandrine Callimachus , in which he assailed his rival Apollonius ...
... says that he was already fifty years old when he wrote it . This poem is an invective in 644 elegiac lines , written in imitation of a poem of similar name by the Alexandrine Callimachus , in which he assailed his rival Apollonius ...
Page xxxiv
... says that he was universally hated as a supporter of every cruel measure , that his character did not correspond to his noble ancestry , and that he was reduced to penury by his luxury , and was rendered infamous by his enormities ...
... says that he was universally hated as a supporter of every cruel measure , that his character did not correspond to his noble ancestry , and that he was reduced to penury by his luxury , and was rendered infamous by his enormities ...
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