The Ninth Book of Vergil's Aeneid (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. 1897 Excerpt: ...were connected with a common mouth-piece fastened over the performer's mouth, so that he furnished wind for both pipes simultaneously. Of the annexed cuts, Fig. 11 illustrates a pair of tibiae blown through a common mouth-band of leather (capistrum,1 (popflela) fastened over the face; Fig. 12 shows a pair branching from the portion held between the F1g. 13. the Berecyntian boxwood pipe; see note on line 82; for the shape of the buxus see Fig. 13. IG-," 620 ferro: ablative. 621 dira: the indigna reldtu of line 595. canentem: compare the English "to sing out." 622 nervo: dative. 627 aurata fronte: the horns of animals offered in sacrifice were often gilded. 628 cum matre for cum mdtris capite; the bullock shall be as large as its mother. 629 iam qui with subjunctive of result; one that already; this also shows that the animal is full-grown. 630 de parte serena... laevum: that the thunder came from a clear sky and that it sounded on the left, were both favorable omens; in watching for omens the augur faced the south, and thus the east, the propitious quarter, was on his left. 631 laevum: adverbial accusative. 632 horrendum: cognate accusative. 635 Bis capti Phryges: see line 599. 639 urbem: the settlement of the Trojans. 640 adfatur: not however heard by Ascanius, as we may infer from what follows. Iulum: see I. 267. 1 It is somewhat curious that this use of capistrum is not mentioned in the Latin lexicons. Even Forcellini does not note it. 641 Macte virtute: success to your new energy macte is attracted from the nominative to the vocative; lit. be thou increased; esto, which is often expressed with macte, is here to be suppiied. sic itur ad astra: such is the path to the stars; itur--onva. 642 geniture deos: the emperors of the Julian family w...