The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 3Bernard Lintot, 1725 - Epic poetry |
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Page 54
... Cimmerians , con- verted thefe dark habitations into ftoves , bathes , & c . Silius Italicus writes , that the Lucrine lake was antiently call'd Cocytus , lib . 12 . Aft hic Lucrino manfisse vocabula quondam Cocyti memorat : The barren ...
... Cimmerians , con- verted thefe dark habitations into ftoves , bathes , & c . Silius Italicus writes , that the Lucrine lake was antiently call'd Cocytus , lib . 12 . Aft hic Lucrino manfisse vocabula quondam Cocyti memorat : The barren ...
Page 56
... Cimmerians lie in a land of darkness ; the Heifer which Ulyffes is to offer is barren , like that in Virgil . Sterilemque tibi , Proferpina , Vaccam ; to denote that the grave is unfruitful , that it devours all things , that it is a ...
... Cimmerians lie in a land of darkness ; the Heifer which Ulyffes is to offer is barren , like that in Virgil . Sterilemque tibi , Proferpina , Vaccam ; to denote that the grave is unfruitful , that it devours all things , that it is a ...
Page 60
... Cimmerians , and what Ce- remonies he perform'd to invoke the dead . The manner of his defcent , and the Apparition of the Shades ; his converfation with Elpenor , and with Tirefias , who informs him in a prophetic manner of his ...
... Cimmerians , and what Ce- remonies he perform'd to invoke the dead . The manner of his defcent , and the Apparition of the Shades ; his converfation with Elpenor , and with Tirefias , who informs him in a prophetic manner of his ...
Page 66
... Cimmerians , but their climate and darkness , from the northern Bofphorus into Campania in Italy . But that there really were a people in Italy named Cimmerians is evident from the teftimony of many Authors . So Lycophron plain- ly ...
... Cimmerians , but their climate and darkness , from the northern Bofphorus into Campania in Italy . But that there really were a people in Italy named Cimmerians is evident from the teftimony of many Authors . So Lycophron plain- ly ...
Page 67
... Cimmerians were antiently a powerful nation ; for paffing into Afia ( fays that Author in his Clio ) they poffefs'd ... Cimmerians , and confequently there might be Italian , as well as Scythian Cimmerians . It must be allow'd ...
... Cimmerians were antiently a powerful nation ; for paffing into Afia ( fays that Author in his Clio ) they poffefs'd ... Cimmerians , and confequently there might be Italian , as well as Scythian Cimmerians . It must be allow'd ...
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Alcinous Anticlea Antients becauſe breaft caft call'd Charybdis Cimmerians Circe coaft companions confequently Dacier darkneſs death defcends defcribes defcription dire divine dreadful Epic Poetry Euftathius Eumans Eumaus Eurylochus Eurypylus ev'ry exprefs fable facred fafe faid fame fate fays feaft feem felf fenfe fhade fhall fhews fhip fhore fhould fignifies filence firft firſt flain fleep fome foul fpeaks ftand ftill ftory fuch gives Goddeſs Gods heav'n Hell herds Herodotus Heroe Hiftory himſelf Homer honour Ifland Iliad infernal inftance Jove King land Lipara loft moſt muſt Neptune night o'er obferves occafion Odyffey Orchomenos paffage perfon Phaacians Phorcys pleaſure Plutarch Poet Poetry pow'r prefent reafon reft reprefents rife rocks Scylla ſhe ſhore ſpeaks Strabo Symplegades Telegonus Telemachus thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Tirefias tranflated Ulyffes Ulyſſes underſtood uſed veffel verfe verſes Virgil whofe wife winds Wiſdom woes words καὶ