The Fables of Avianus, Ed. with Comm. by R. Ellis (Paperback)

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: ...Videmus Sudoresque ita palloremque existere toto Corpore et infringi linguam uocemque aboriri, where Munro translates 'the tongue falter, the voice die away.' 14. soli tas uoces, a somewhat strained plural, ' his wonted utterance, ' or ' power of utterance.' dolor, 'pain of the wound.' 15. medio in aggere, 'confronted me on the road.' Aen. v. 273 Saepe uiae deprensus in aggere serpens, where Servius explains agger est media uiae eminentia, coaggeratis lapidibus strata. (Canneg.) conuenit. IX. 6. 16. The com bination Nulla...forma... Quaeque... sit repetenda recurs XXXIII. 1, 2 Anser...feta, Ouaque quae... daret. XXXVIII. 9, 10 Vana... mendacia Quaeque refutari... queant, and is common in other authors of the period as well as in the Satires of Juvenal. See on XXXIII. 2. oculis olim repetenda, 'to be afterwards recalled by my eyes.' An Ovidianism, Pont. ii. 10. 5, 6 An tibi notitiam mora temporis eripit horum f Nec repetunt oculi signa uetusta tuif The gerundive has here the form of a simple fut. pass. participle. See above on XI. 12. 18. uirum, emphasized, 'strong man, ' 'manof might, ' as in Sen. Epist. 98. 14 Cum uiro tibi negotium est. XVIII. Babr. xliv, Fab. Aesop. 394, 394b Halm, 36 Kn. Babr. Xliv. 'EvipovrO raOpoi rpels dtl jur aWijav, Xeiov fie rOVrOvs avWci&eiv tpedptvtov Spov pev avroiis ovrc efio e viKjaeiv, 6yoiS fi' virovois dial3oals re ovyKpov(aV e%0povs eVoiei, xopioas 8' an aKrfkov tKaarov aitrwv ecre pa8irjv doivrjv, 2. amicitiae tanta fides, ' a friendship so firm.' 3. simul emis Sos, sc. stabulis, as Vergil G. iv. 2 2 says of bees that have left the hive fauis emissa iuuentus. Colum. vi. 9. 2 Quae medicina sub tecto fieri debet nec ante sanitatem bos emitti where Vegetius has dimittatur in pastum (Schneider ad loc.). error is rightly...