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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. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...thus she begins;' cp. xii. 47 sit-institit ore. The notion is that of setting foot upon, and so entering, an undertaking. adeo slightly emphasises sic. quid ago, vivid use of the indic. for the delib. subj. 'what shall I do?' Cp. Aen. iii. 88 quem sequimur. irrisa, 'an object of mockery' (to the proci priores; the notion of past time being subordinated). cuios ego sim, etc., 'though I have so often spurned them'--in contrast to petam supplex. 537. ultima, 'the uttermost, ' i.e. the most degrading. 538, 539. iuvat, sc. eos: 'because they are pleased to have had my help before, and gratitude for favours of old stands firm in mindful hearts?' The ne carries on the question, and suggests a further doubt as to the possibility of this reason; cp. Catull. lxiv. 180 An patris auxilium sperem? quemne ipsa reliqui, i. e. eiusne, quem... 540-542. fac velle, 'suppose I wished.' Laomedonteae periuria gentis, referring to the fraud of Laomedon, king of Troy, who refused to pay Poseidon the stipulated price for building the city walls. 545. inferar, ' shall I attack them?' 547. quin morere, 'nay, die.' She apostrophises herself, but immediately turns on Anna. 550. non licuit, 'it was not allowed, ' a passionate complaint. In English it would rather be ' Why was I not allowed...?' 551. more ferae, 'like some wild thing, ' expresses a longing, not for bestial as opposed to human life, but for the freedom and ease of wild life as opposed to the restraints and troubles of civilisation. 552. Sychaei, so Med., and some other MSS. Servius read Sychaeo (adject.), which most editors adopt, though occurring nowhere else. Sychaei, says Con., ' looks like a correction;' but might not Sychaeo be introduced to avoid the repetition of final sound iil cineri... Sychaei? The