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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 38 (search)
is it thus you treat my love for you?’ cf. Catul. 64.27n. With the ellipsis of the verb in a question of surprise cf. Cic. Att. 13.24 nihil igitur ne ei quidem litterarum? paulum quid libet: just one little word (Ellis); with the ellipsis of the imperative cf. Catul. 55.10 (sc. reddite); Ter. And. 204 bona verba, quaeso (sc. dicas). maestius: and let it be sadder,—for Catullus is so disconsolate that he has ceased to desire encouragement, and yearns only for what is in accordance with his own mood. lacrimis Simonideis: Simonides (556-467 B.C.), the celebrated poet of Ceos, excelled especially in plaintive themes, and so won even from Aeschylus the prize offered for an elegy upon the Athenians who fell at Marathon.
P. Vergilius Maro, Georgics (ed. J. B. Greenough), Book 1, line 1 (search)
and Ceres mild, If by your bounty holpen earth once changed Chaonian acorn for the plump wheat-ear, And mingled with the grape, your new-found gift, The draughts of Achelous; and ye Fauns To rustics ever kind, come foot it, Fauns And Dryad-maids together; your gifts I sing. And thou, for whose delight the war-horse first Sprang from earth's womb at thy great trident's stroke, Neptune; and haunter of the groves, for whom Three hundred snow-white heifers browse the brakes, The fertile brakes of Ceos; and clothed in power, Thy native forest and Lycean lawns, Pan, shepherd-god, forsaking, as the love Of thine own Maenalus constrains thee, hear And help, O lord of Tegea! And thou, too, Minerva, from whose hand the olive sprung; And boy-discoverer of the curved plough; And, bearing a young cypress root-uptorn, Silvanus, and Gods all and Goddesses, Who make the fields your care, both ye who nurse The tender unsown increase, and from heaven Shed on man's sowing the riches of your rain: And tho
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 7, line 350 (search)
which Meras (when he first did into barking brust) Affraide with straungenesse of the noyse. And eke Eurypils towne In which the wives of Cos had homes like Oxen on their crowne Such time as Hercles with his hoste departed from the Ile, And Rhodes to Phoebus consecrate: and Ialyse where ere while The Telchines with their noysome sight did every thing bewitch. At which their hainous wickednesse Jove taking rightfull pritch, Did drowne them in his brothers waves. Moreover she did passe By Ceos and olde Carthey walles where Sir Alcidamas Did wonder how his daughter should be turned to a Dove. The Swannie Temp and Hyries Poole she viewed from above, The which a sodeine Swan did haunt. For Phyllie there for love Of Hyries sonne did at his bidding Birdes and Lions tame, And being willde to breake a Bull performed streight the same: Till wrothfull that his love so oft so streightly should him use, When for his last reward he askt the Bull, he did refuse To give it him. The boy displ
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