The Eclogues of Faustus Andrelinus and Ioannes Arnolletus (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. 1918 Excerpt: ...carmen '. 85. Cp. Hor. Ep. i. 2, 57, 'invidus alterius macrescit rebus opimis'. A. 88. p. Plaut. Most. 55, ' carnuficium cribrum ', and the modern expressions 'crivellare a coltellate ', 'riddle with shot ', etc. 92. Cp. Lucan, Phars. vi. 637, 'electum tandem traiecto gutture corpus I ducit, et inserto laqueis feralibus unco per scopulos miserum trahitur'; Juv. i. 156, 'qui fixo gutture fumant'. 95 ff. An allusion to Balbi's attack on Andrelinus. See Ecl. xi. 15-17, and Appendix A. Cp. Virg. Aen. vi. 80, 'os rabidum'. 97. Ovid, M. iii. 575, 'manus post terga ligatae '. 104. Meliboeon: his name is given in one of Andrelinus' Elegies (iii. 8) as 'Bnmorus Bulgarus '. 105. Virg. Ecl. i. 36, 'gravis aere domum mihi dextra redibat '. 108. In one of Andrelinus' Elegies, ii. 10 (written before 1492), he mentions a sister 'immatura et acerba morte praeventa '. And some of his later verses were written to commend a brother, Andreas, to the favor of Pope Julius II; see G. C. Knod, op. cit., 106-7. no. Virg. Ecl. i. 51, 'mala... contagia'; Lucr. vi. 1236, 'avidi contagia morbi '; Sil. Ital. xi. 13, 'foedi contagia morbi '. 116. solentur: used as a passive, or middle; cp. solor, ix. 36. Cp. the expression 'chiaro com' uno specchio'. 119- Cp. Persius. i. 72, 'fumosa Palilia faeno'. 120. Virg. Aen. ix. 618, 'biforem dat tibia cantum'. 121. In the dedication of his Elegies to Thomas Ward (Paris, 1494) Andrelinus speaks of an unpublished work 'laboriosissimum illud opus De Vera Religione inscriptum '. 123-124. Virg. Ecl. vii. 26, 'invidia rumpantur ut ilia Codro '; Ovid, Rem. Am. 389, 'rumpere, Livor edax'; Hor. Sat. ii. 1, 76, 'invita fatebitur usque Invidia '; Calpurn. i. 48, 'in sua vesanos torquebit viscera morsus '. 127. Virg. Aen. v. 257, 'saevitque...