Identifier: termofovidstorie00ovid (find matches)
Title: A term of Ovid, stories from the Metamorphoses for study and sight reading
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D Gleason, Clarence W. (Clarence Willard), 1866-1942, ed
Subjects: Metamorphosis Mythology, Classical Fables, Latin
Publisher: New York, American Book Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t.594. crines: the foliage of the forests.596. hunc fertilitatis honorem: is this the reward for (objective gen.) my fertileness? Mark the emphatic position of hunc. 598. exerceor: with the double meaning of worked and worried or vexed. 599. alimenta mitia: as compared with frondes, the food of the lower animals. 600. vobis: i.e. Jupiter and the other gods, as com- pared with humano generi.602. frater: Neptunus. ill! tradita: when Saturnus allotted to him therule of the sea, the heavens to Jupiter, andthe infernal regions to Pluto. 604. mea: equivalent to an objective gen. like fra- tris, = in me, in fratrem. 605. caelitui: gen. with miserere.607. Atlas ipse: who supported the heavens on his shoulders. This is really an anachronism, as Atlas had not yet been transformed into a mountain. See Selection X, and read the story in some book of mythology. 610. in chaos antiquum: as existing before the creation. 611. rerum summae: the general welfare, the whole universe.615. ipsum: Apollinem.
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Atlas (Naples Museum) P. 48) NOTES 131 617. summam arcem: the very highest part of heaven, as in Aeneid, I, 225 :Sic vertice caeli Constitit.arduus: predicate.620. posset: a relative clause of purpose. 622. ab aure: i.e. drawing back the bolt in order to hurl it with his fullstrength. 624. expulit: a double use quite common in Latin authors: he deprived him of life and hurled him from the chariot. The same use of a word issometimes found in English, in similar cases; as, he lost his balanceand his life. 625. in contraria: sc. loca. 633. potuit: may. This is what is called a gnomic perfect. H. 538, 5 (471, II, 5); 744; A. 279, c; G. 236, N.; B. 262, B, I. 634. patria: Ethiopia. diverso orbe: a different, i.e. far away, part of the earth, probablytoward the west or north. 635. Eridanus : a mythical river, placed by the oldest writers somewhere near the ends of the earth. Later writers identify it with the Rhine or,with Ovid himself (Met. I, 370), with the Padus or Po. 636. Hesperiae: se

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