P. Vergili Maronis Bucolica Et Georgica, With Introduction And Notes
P. Vergili Maronis Bucolica Et Georgica, With Introduction And Notes
Virgil
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Différent trees are tJie glory of différent places, but Lycidas isfairer than them ail, M. So Thyrsis strove in vain, and Corydon was shovm to hâve no peer. 63. dum] *while,* *as long as' : as long as Phyllis admires the hazel, no tree will surpass it in the eyes of Corydon. ,y Google NOTES 155 65. pinus in hortis] Ovid (A. A. 3. 692) speaks of 'a cultivated pine,* and Theophrastns (H. P. 12. 10) says wtùicijs -rh fièp fifiepov rb Ôè AypiOP : cf. too G. 4. 112. 66. in fluviis] ' among rivera * ...: i.e. in well-watered districts, or perhaps actually *in rivers * ; cf. G. 2. IIO flumi/nibiùs salices . . .nascuntur. 69. victuni...Thyr8lm] The inferiority of Thyrsis is marked in the arrogance of Unes 25 — 28, and the extrava- gance of 33 — 36 ; in his next two replies his subject is less beautifnl in itself than Corydon's (* the sour lover * as compared with * the sweet Galatea,' winter with summer) but is treated "with equal art, while in lines 57 — 60, 65 — 68 it is impossible to say that he yields to Corydon.
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