human
Me tener solvet vitulus, relicta matre.
gpt
Cui frons turgida cornibus Primis et Venerem, et prælia destinat.
human
He flies his mother's teat with playful scorn, And butts the oak-trees with his growing horn.
gpt
Hispulla tragædo gaudet.
human
Huge as Hispulla: scarcely to be slain But by the stoutest servant of the train.
gpt
Topino, near Mevania, now
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Timia. The Tinia discharges itself into the Tiber near Perusia. Pliny (viii., Ep. 8) gives a beautiful description of its source, now called
gpt
La Vene, in a letter which is, as Gifford says, a model of elegance and taste. Its waters were supposed to give a milk-white color to the cattle who drank of them. Virg., Georg., ii., 146,
human
Hinc albi, Clitumne, greges, et maxima taurus victima. Propert., II., xix., 25,
gpt
Quà formosa suo Clitumnus flumina luco Integit et niveos abluit unda boves. Sil., iv., 547,
human
Clitumnus in arvis Candentes gelido perfundit flumine tauros.
gpt
Graves cum solitarii venerunt mergentesque navigia, et si in carinæ ima deciderint, exurentes. These fires, when _double_, were hailed as a happy omen, as the stars of Castor and Pollux.
human
Fratres Helenæ lucida sidera, Hor., I., Od. iii., 2; cf. xii., 27. The French call it
gpt
Le feu St. Elme, said to be a corruption of
human
Helena. The Italian sailors call them
gpt
St. Peter and St. Nicholas.
human
So loud the thunder, such the whirlwind's sweep, As when the poet lashes up the deep.
gpt
Me tabulâ sacer votivâ paries indicat noida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris Deo. It seems to have been the custom for persons in peril of shipwreck not only to vow pictures of their perilous condition to some deity in case they escaped, but also to have a painting of it made to carry about with them to excite commiseration as they begged. Cf. xiv., 302,
human
Naufragus assem dum rogat et pictâ se tempestate tuetur. Pers., i., 89,
gpt
Quum fractâ te in trabe pictum ex humero portes. VI., 32,
human
Largire inopi, ne pictus oberret cæruleâ in tabulâ. Hor., A. P., 20,
gpt
Fractis enatat exspes navibus, ære dato qui pingitur.
human
Sic ubi detracta est a te tibi causa pericli Quod superest tutum, Pontice Castor, habes! This story of the beaver is told Plin., viii., 30; xxxvii., 6, and is repeated by Silius, in a passage copied from Ovid and Juvenal.
gpt
Fluminei veluti deprensus gurgitis undis, Avulsâ parte _inguinibus causâque pericli_, Enatat intento prædæ fiber avius hoste, xv., 485. But it is an error. The sebaceous matter called castoreum (Pers., v., 135), is secreted by two glands near the root of the tail. (Vid. Martyn's Georgics, i., 59,
human
Virosaque Pontus Castorea, and Browne's Vulgar Errors, lib. iii., 4.) Pliny, viii., 3, tells a similar story of the elephant,
gpt
Circumventi a venantibus dentes impactos arbori frangunt, _prædâque se redimunt_.
human
Guadalquivir, the waters of which were said to give a ruddy golden tinge to the fleeces of the sheep that drank it. Martial alludes to it repeatedly.
gpt
Non est lana mihi mendax, nec mutor aëno. Si placeant Tyriæ me mea tinxit ovis, xiv., Ep. 133. Cf. v., 37; viii., 28.
human
Vellera nativo pallent ubi flava metallo, ix., 62.
gpt
Aurea qui nitidis vellera tingis aquis,
human
Away went garments of that innate stain That wool imbibes on Guadalquiver's plain, From native herbs and babbling fountains nigh, To aid the powers of Andalusia's sky.
gpt
Qualis in adversos Lapithas erexit inanem Magnanimus cratera Pholus,
human
Basgawd is said to be the root of the English word
gpt
Vid. Latham's English language, p. 98. These were probably vessels surrounded with basket or rush work. Mart., xiv., Ep. 99.
human
Barbara de pictis veni bascauda Britannis; sed me jam mavolt dicere Roma suam.
gpt
A store Of precious cups, high chased in golden ore; Cups that adorn'd the crafty Philip's state, And bought his entrance at th' Olynthian gate.
human
Tabulâ distinguitur undâ. Ovid. Amor. ii. xi. 25,
gpt
Navita sollicitus qua ventos horret iniquos; Et prope tam letum quam prope cernit aquam.
human
Trust to a little plank 'twixt death and thee, And by four inches 'scape eternity.
gpt
A gorbellied flagon.
human
His biscuit and his bread the sailor brings On board: 'tis well. But hatchets are the things.
gpt
or
human
threads of the Parcæ were supposed to symbolize the good or bad fortune of the mortal whose yarn Clotho was spinning. Mart. iv. Ep. 73,
gpt
Ultima volventes oraba pensa sorores, Ut traherent parva stamina pulla morâ. VI. Ep. 58,
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Si mihi lanificæ ducunt non pulla sorores Stamina. Hor. ii. Od. iii. 16,
gpt
Sororum fila trium patiuntur atra.
human
Littoreis ingens inventa sub ilicibus sus, Triginta capitum fœtus enixa jacebit, Alba solo recubans, albi circum ubera nati. Is locus urbis erit, requies ea certa laborum,
gpt
Portum Ostiæ exstruxit circumducto dextrâ sinistrâque brachis, et ad introitum profundo jam solo mole objectâ, quam quò stabilius fundaret, navem ante demersit, quâ magnus obeliscus, ex Ægypto fuerat advectus; congestisque pilis superposuit altissimam turrim in exemplum Alexandrini Phari, ut ad nocturnos ignes cursum navigia dirigerent.
human
Enter the moles, that running out so wide Clasp in their giant arms the billowy tide, That leave afar diminishing the land, More wondrous than the works of nature's hand.
gpt
Cf. Pers., iii., 106,
human
Hesterni capite inducto subiere Quirites. Hodgson has an excellent note on the
gpt
Omnibus rebus agendis, Quod bonum, faustum, felix, fortunatumque esset, præfabantur: rebusque divinis, quæ publicè fierent, ut faverent linguis imperabant: inque feriis imperandis ut litibus et jurgiis se abstinerent. Cf. Hor., iii., Od. i., 2,
human
Favete linguis. Virg., Æn., v., 71,
gpt
Ore favete omnes. Hor., Od., III., xiv., 11; Tibull., II., ii., 2,
human
Quisquis ades linguâ, vir, mulierque fave.