previous next



enisus: struggling up and on; Tac. Ann. 1.70, in editiora enisus. igneas: starry or of the aether. Cf. Ov. Met. 15.858, arcis . . . aetherias; Trist. 5.3. 19. But ignis = stars, 1.12. 47. Cf. Ovid's siderea arx, Am. 3.10.21. Statius to Domitian, Silv. 4.3.155, ibis qua vagus Hercules et Euhan (Bacchus) | ultra sidera flammeumque solem. On the "stars" in the conventional rhetoric of immortality, cf. Cic. Somn. Scip. 16 sqq. ; Rohde, Psyche, p.672.


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: