Word: virgil
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Latin Readings. Virgil. The story of Dido Aeneas. Mr. Parke, Sever...
Latin Readings. Virgil. The story of Dido and Aeneas. Mr. Parker. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Prof. Dyer will finish reading the "Medea" on the Wednesday after Thanksgiving...
...speaking was better than for several years is indisputable. The speakers seemed to be more at ease, speaking and gesturing more naturally; and their selections were more suited to themselves, as the speakers, and to the audience, which assembled to hear them. Because of its novelty, the selection from Virgil should be particularly mentioned here; its rendering was emminently successful, for the soft and musical tones and accents of the Latin. The speaking was all good and commendable; and seldom has the contest for prizes been so close. The following are the speakers and their selections: A. Z. Bowen...
...Latin-The translation at sight of average passages from Cicero and Virgil...
...from respectable old classical authors, as gleaned from our exchanges, says the Collegian, is unusually prolific this year. Some of them are startling in their originality and ingenuity, others are completely bewildering in the wild luxuriance of imagination which they betoken on the part of the translator. For instance, Virgil is made to say in "Impositi rogis juvenes ante ora parentum," "And the boys were imposed upon by the rogues in the very teeth of their parents." Another from the same source, "Hunc Polydorum auri," "A hunk of gold belonging to Polydorus." Horace fares little better when the verse " Parcus...