A handbook of Latin poetry, containing selections from Ovid, Virgil, and Horace, with notes and grammatical references by J.H. Hanson and W.J. Rolfe

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. 1865 Excerpt: ...than the heavenly iones; but Virgil was doubtless thinking of the sky as the parent of ice.--237. Duae; i. e. the temperate zones, which alone the ancients supposed to be habitable.--238. Via; 1. e. the ecliptic Per = inter; as the sun never enters the temperate zones. So v. 245, per dims Arctos.--239. ObliquuB; with se verteret. Gr. 443. A. & S. 205, R. 15 A Obliquus ordo is the zodiac, the constellations of which it consists being arranged along the ecliptic which cuts the equator obliquely at an angle of about twenty-three and a half degrees. Cf. Ov. M. II. ij foil. Se... verteret = might revolve. Gr. 500. A. & S. 264. 5.--240 Mundua. See on v. 232. Scythiam; used for the North generally, as often in the poets. Rhipaeaa. The Khipean mountains were supposed to separate the land of the Hyperboreans from the rest of the world. Here these countries are made to stand for the northernmost point, not only of earth, but of the mundane system, as Libya for the southernmost Arduus; referring to the elevation of the north pole, as premitur, etc., docs to the depression of the south pole. CC Ov. Trist IV. 10. 10S.--242. Hio vertex; i. e. the north pole. Ilium; i. e. the south pole.--243. The infernal regions were supposed to be in the centre of the earth; so here they are said to be over the south pole. Sub pedilms is to be connected with vidtt, the feet being those of Styx and the Manes; but vidtt of course does not mean that the south pole is actually visible from the shades.--244. Hie; i. e. at the north pole. Flexu. Gr. 414 and 3. A. & S. 247 and 2. Anguis. See on v. 205. Elabitar = shoots out: not the same as labilur.--246. Metuentes--tiugui; i.e. they never set. See on Ov. M. II. 172.--247. Illic; i. c. at the south pole. Ut perhibent; for the sout...