The eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus and M. Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus, with introduction, commentary, & appendix

by Titus Calpurnius Siculus

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. ... 2, 54: £t vos, 0 lauri, carpam, el te proximo myrte. Wernsdorf, however, observes vicina and firoxima have not the same meaning. The allusion to city life, in referring to the trees before the palace, is not alien to bucolic poetry; see the reference to the Palatine in line 159 and throughout VII. 93 sq. Cui tu, &c., 'to whom you yourself, Caesar, are already nearest.' Cf. Plaut. Aul. 2,3, 8: nunc nobis prope abest (al. adest) exitium. Jam, i. e. even before death. Posito paulisper fulmine. Cf. Hor. C. 2, 10, 18 sq., where Apollo indulges in similar Quondam cithara tacentem Suscitat Musam, neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo. 95. Cressia rura. Jupiter is said to have been brought up in Crete, where the Curetes, the most ancient inhabitants of the island, paid worship to him (as the Corybantes, who at a later period were identified with them, celebrated the worship of Cybele) with noisy music and armed dances. 96. Dicte, now Sethia, was a mountain in the eastern part of Crete, in a cave of which Jupiter was concealed from Saturn. 97 sq. Reverential silence is often mentioned as nature's tribute on the approach of a deity, and the emperor is here said to receive similar homage. Conticeant? memini, quamvis urgente procella, Sic nemus immotis subito requiescere ramis, Et deus hinc, certe deus expulit 100 Nec mora; Pharsalae solverunt sibila cannae. C. Aspics, ut teneros subitus vigor excitet agnos? Utque superfuso magis ubera lacte graventur, Et nupei tonsis exundent vellera foetis? Hoc ego iam, rhemini, semel hac in valle notavi, 105 99. scit nemus abo. Scit deus VGRl.r. inmontisD2. 101. Pharsaliae libr. omn. except VGRl.r which have Pharsalis = Pharsales. Glaes. gives Pharsalae from conjecture. Haupt approves...

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Published September 13, 2013