Read Virgil's "Gathering of the Clans," Being Observations on Aeneid VII. 601-817

Virgil's "Gathering of the Clans," Being Observations on Aeneid VII. 601-817

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Description:Excerpt: ...This striking simile has been rather hardly treated by commentators, both ancient and modern. Even Dr. Henry seems to me to be quite at sea about it, though positive that everyone else has totally 1 See Wissowa, " Religion und Kultus " (second edition), p. 268. a "Golden Bough " (third edition), vol. i., p. 268. misunderstood it. He insisted that silva and virgulta are one and the same thing, and when confronted with the epithet ingens attached to silva he translated it " the mighty brushwood, the brushwood considered in respect of its extent." This seems to me to put him out of court, for the picture he suggests is of a mountain clothed with brushwood all the way down, and this was most certainly not what was in Virgil's mind. The real picture is surely one of alpine regions, and cannot be realized (visualized is now the favourite word) any more than Tennyson's idyll in the Princess (" Come down, O Maid ") by anyone who is not familiar with real mountain landscapes in time of storm and snow. The picture that rises in my mind is that of a mountain range, whose summits are hidden in cloud, below which the snow is visible between the cloud and the pine-forests; below the broad steep slopes of dark pines, the silva, are the belts of deciduous trees and underwood (virgulta)--the underwood in which I have so often watched the warmth-loving birds of the Alps, the Pied Flycatcher or Bonelli's Warbler. These four stages of the clothing of the mountain seem to me clearly expressed by the poet. First the Centaurs are nubigenae, their lair is up there in the clouds;x there they were born, and thence they begin 1 Heyne saw this, and Conington quoting him with approval says that such an idea may have occurred to Virgil in the pres...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Virgil's "Gathering of the Clans," Being Observations on Aeneid VII. 601-817. To get started finding Virgil's "Gathering of the Clans," Being Observations on Aeneid VII. 601-817, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt: ...This striking simile has been rather hardly treated by commentators, both ancient and modern. Even Dr. Henry seems to me to be quite at sea about it, though positive that everyone else has totally 1 See Wissowa, " Religion und Kultus " (second edition), p. 268. a "Golden Bough " (third edition), vol. i., p. 268. misunderstood it. He insisted that silva and virgulta are one and the same thing, and when confronted with the epithet ingens attached to silva he translated it " the mighty brushwood, the brushwood considered in respect of its extent." This seems to me to put him out of court, for the picture he suggests is of a mountain clothed with brushwood all the way down, and this was most certainly not what was in Virgil's mind. The real picture is surely one of alpine regions, and cannot be realized (visualized is now the favourite word) any more than Tennyson's idyll in the Princess (" Come down, O Maid ") by anyone who is not familiar with real mountain landscapes in time of storm and snow. The picture that rises in my mind is that of a mountain range, whose summits are hidden in cloud, below which the snow is visible between the cloud and the pine-forests; below the broad steep slopes of dark pines, the silva, are the belts of deciduous trees and underwood (virgulta)--the underwood in which I have so often watched the warmth-loving birds of the Alps, the Pied Flycatcher or Bonelli's Warbler. These four stages of the clothing of the mountain seem to me clearly expressed by the poet. First the Centaurs are nubigenae, their lair is up there in the clouds;x there they were born, and thence they begin 1 Heyne saw this, and Conington quoting him with approval says that such an idea may have occurred to Virgil in the pres...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Virgil's "Gathering of the Clans," Being Observations on Aeneid VII. 601-817. To get started finding Virgil's "Gathering of the Clans," Being Observations on Aeneid VII. 601-817, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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