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Page 7
... because it is an Island of fame , and much fail'd unto , or her by navigators ; that is , reqμévn , or Év TÓTTOIS TREQμÉvois xμm , or lying in feas of ' great navigation : but perhaps the former opinion of Ariftarchus may be preferable ...
... because it is an Island of fame , and much fail'd unto , or her by navigators ; that is , reqμévn , or Év TÓTTOIS TREQμÉvois xμm , or lying in feas of ' great navigation : but perhaps the former opinion of Ariftarchus may be preferable ...
Page 8
... because of the fubterrane an fires , which from time to time break out from the entrails of this Inland . Ariftotle speaking of Lipara , which is the most con- fiderable of the colian Islands , thus defcribes it ; " All night long " the ...
... because of the fubterrane an fires , which from time to time break out from the entrails of this Inland . Ariftotle speaking of Lipara , which is the most con- fiderable of the colian Islands , thus defcribes it ; " All night long " the ...
Page 27
... because they still retain'd the fentiments of men , in the forms of beafts , and confequently their native tenderness . There is a beautiful moral couch'd under this fable or allegory : Homer intended to teach , as Euftathius remarks ...
... because they still retain'd the fentiments of men , in the forms of beafts , and confequently their native tenderness . There is a beautiful moral couch'd under this fable or allegory : Homer intended to teach , as Euftathius remarks ...
Page 55
... because Acherufia , a large water near Cume , flows into it by con- ceal'd paffages . Silius Italicus informs us , that Avernus was allo called Styx . Ille olim populis dictum Styga , nomine verfo , Stagna inter celebrem nunc mitia ...
... because Acherufia , a large water near Cume , flows into it by con- ceal'd paffages . Silius Italicus informs us , that Avernus was allo called Styx . Ille olim populis dictum Styga , nomine verfo , Stagna inter celebrem nunc mitia ...
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... because ( fays Euftathius ) it contains an interview between Ulyffes , and the fhades of the dead . Virgil has not only borrow'd the general defign from Homer , but imitated many particular incidents : L'Abbé Fragnier in the Memoirs of ...
... because ( fays Euftathius ) it contains an interview between Ulyffes , and the fhades of the dead . Virgil has not only borrow'd the general defign from Homer , but imitated many particular incidents : L'Abbé Fragnier in the Memoirs of ...
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