Bucolica Author:Virgil Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: through the well-ventilated roof. These smoking roofs announce that supper-time has come. — iani funiant, are beginning to smoke. i.iin with the present and impe... more »rfect constantly has this force. 84. malores, i.e. lengthened by the declining sun. — cadunt, merely a vivid way of saying, lit on the plain. Virgil seems, in accordance with his gentle nature and feeble constitution, to have been particularly fond of quiet scenes, and especially evening scenes. See the endings of Eels, ii., vi., x., and yEn. iv. 522, et seq. Fig. 6. Eclogue II. The third Idyl of Theocritus, from which the general style and sentiment of this eclogue are imitated, is the complaint of a shepherd to his love Amaryllis; the eleventh is addressed by the monster Polyphemus to the sea-nymph Galatea, and seems to be the model for Corydon's defence of his personal appearance. I. formosum: notice the position at the beginning, corresponding with that of Alexlm at the close of the line. This is a very common arrangement in Latin verse (see note i. I). — ardebat, burned with love for, = amabat, and so governing the accusative by a forced construction, apparently first introduced by Virgil. Similar to this are very many poetical constructions, where words are used for others of kindred meaning and so borrow their constructions as well. — Alexim: the form of the ace. in m seems to be always used by Virgil, except when n is required by the metre. 2. del Idas, darling (only in plur.). — nee habebat, nor knew : cf. dare, tell (i. 19), and acclpe, hear. — quid speraret, what to hope for : the direct question is, quid sperem, what can I hope ? (§§ 268, 334, b ; G. 251, 258.) 3. la n In in, only (i.e. all that he could do). — cacumlna, in explanatory appos. with fagos: showing what he came for, shelter fr...« less