Bucolics

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...exclaims 'me, me,--adsum qui feci--in me convertite ferrum.' 94, 95. Partly from Theoc. 5. 100. pareite = nolite, 'do not,' etc. Cp. A. 3. 42 'parce pias scelerare manus.' ipse aries, 'even the ram,' the leader of the flock, who might have known better. 98. reice, contr. from reice = reiice. Compounds of iacio were often spelt with a single i (reicio, eicio, etc. in Lucretius, Plautus, etc.). 97. Cp. Theoc. 5. 145 avptov vppte irdaas cyw ovaw 2v0ap'triSos evSoSi Kpdvas. cogite, sc. in umbram. In G. 3. 331 Virgil gives directions for taking flocks into the shade at noon, and letting them out again to graze in the cool of the evening. praeeeperit, 'catches,' i. e. 'dries up before' milking time, or 'before' we can prevent it. 100. Cp. Theoc. 4. 20 Acittos pav xi/ ravpos 6 irvppixos. ervo is some kind of ' vetch.' 102, 103. his, sc. agnis, i. e. ' my lambs don't suffer from love--so lean are they--'tis some evil eye that blights them.' neque, according to Voss, Conington, etc. = »« quidem oiSi), 'not even so simple a malady as love,' etc. This sense of neque occurs in later writers; here it may possibly mean ' but not,' as in Livy and Sallust, or simply = non, according to primitive usage. Another suggested reading is ' hi certe, neque amor causa est, vix ossibus haerent,' the clause neque to est being parenthetical. The superstition about the 'evil eye' (fiaamiveat) was almost universal. Cp. Hor. Epist. 1.14. 37 'non istic obliquo oculo mea coinmoda quisquam limat.' Gellius cites from Pliny a statement' oculis exitialem fascinationem fieri... esse homines in Illyriis, qui interimant videndo, quos diutius irati viderint.' 104. Apollo was the god of soothsaying, under his title of Loxias. Cp. Eur. Ion 243, 974, etc., Iph. T. 1280, 1438. 105. Servius m...