Poemata Quaedam Excerpta: Selections From the Poems of Ovid, Chiefly the Metamorphoses
Poemata Quaedam Excerpta: Selections From the Poems of Ovid, Chiefly the Metamorphoses
Ovid
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146. imminet, broods over. — conjugis, mariti, both limiting exitio. 147. noverose, step-mothers. The evil practice of divorce among the Romans,and the domestic misery that came from it, made this name a proverb of cruelty. — lurida, dark. The asso- ciation of poison with dark mixtures is old and general. Blue and poison are associated in Sanskrit and Greek. — aoonita, the plural on account of repeated cases. 148. inquirit, questions (of fortune-tellers ; he is impatient for his inheritance). 1...49. virgo Astrsea, the maid Astrcca, goddess of justice ; madentes terras, the earth reeking. 153. struadsse montes, piled tke mountains. 154. misso fulmine, kurling tht thunderbolt. 156. corpora, i. e. of the giants. 157. natorum, ker sons. 160. illa, i. e. as well as men. 162. scires, you migkt kave known (§ 60, 2, a; G. 252. For tense see § 59, 3, c; G. 599, r 1 ). 163. quse, see § 48, 4 ; G. 612, r 1 . 164. facto recenti (abl. abs.), since tke deed was recent. — vulgata (belonging to convivia), made known.
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