]
"Then, seated on the back of the divine bull, with one hand did she
grasp the bull's long horn and with the other she was catching up the
purple folds of her garment, and the robe on her shoulders was swelled
out.
"Then, seated on the back of the divine bull, with one hand did she
grasp the bull's long horn and with the other she was catching up the
purple folds of her garment, and the robe on her shoulders was swelled
out.
Tennyson
Ausonian for Tuscan, 1850.
The reference is to
Egeria and Numa Pompilius. 'Cf. ' Juvenal, iii. , 11-18:--
Hic ubi nocturnae
Numa constituebat amicae
. . .
In vallem AEgeriae descendimus et speluneas
Dissimiles veris.
and the beautiful passage in Byron's 'Childe Harold', iv. , st.
cxv. -cxix. ]
[Footnote 19: This is Camadev or Camadeo, the Cupid or God of Love of the
Hindu mythology. ]
[Footnote 20: This picture of Europa seems to have been suggested by
Moschus, 'Idyll', ii. , 121-5:--
[Greek: Hae d' ar ephezomenae Zaenos Boeois epi n_otois tae men echen
taurou dolichon keras, en cheri d' allae eirue porphyreas kolpou
ptuchas.
]
"Then, seated on the back of the divine bull, with one hand did she
grasp the bull's long horn and with the other she was catching up the
purple folds of her garment, and the robe on her shoulders was swelled
out. "
See, too, the beautiful picture of the same scene in Achilles
Tatius, 'Clitophon and Leucippe', lib. i. , 'ad init. ;' and in Politian's
finely picturesque poem. ]
[Footnote 21: In 1833 thus:--
Europa's scarf blew in an arch, unclasped,
From her bare shoulder backward borne.
Off inserted in 1842. Here in 1833 follows a stanza, excised in 1842:--
He thro' the streaming crystal swam, and rolled
Ambrosial breaths that seemed to float
In light-wreathed curls. She from the ripple cold
Updrew her sandalled foot. ]
[Footnote 22: 1833. Over. ]
[Footnote 23: 1833. Not. ]
[Footnote 24: 1833. Many a. ]
[Footnote 25: The Caucasian range forms the north-west margin of the
great tableland of Western Asia, and as it was the home of those races
who afterwards peopled Europe and Western Asia and so became the fathers
of civilisation and culture, the "Supreme Caucasian mind" is a
historically correct but certainly recondite expression for the
intellectual flower of the human race, for the perfection of human
ability.
Egeria and Numa Pompilius. 'Cf. ' Juvenal, iii. , 11-18:--
Hic ubi nocturnae
Numa constituebat amicae
. . .
In vallem AEgeriae descendimus et speluneas
Dissimiles veris.
and the beautiful passage in Byron's 'Childe Harold', iv. , st.
cxv. -cxix. ]
[Footnote 19: This is Camadev or Camadeo, the Cupid or God of Love of the
Hindu mythology. ]
[Footnote 20: This picture of Europa seems to have been suggested by
Moschus, 'Idyll', ii. , 121-5:--
[Greek: Hae d' ar ephezomenae Zaenos Boeois epi n_otois tae men echen
taurou dolichon keras, en cheri d' allae eirue porphyreas kolpou
ptuchas.
]
"Then, seated on the back of the divine bull, with one hand did she
grasp the bull's long horn and with the other she was catching up the
purple folds of her garment, and the robe on her shoulders was swelled
out. "
See, too, the beautiful picture of the same scene in Achilles
Tatius, 'Clitophon and Leucippe', lib. i. , 'ad init. ;' and in Politian's
finely picturesque poem. ]
[Footnote 21: In 1833 thus:--
Europa's scarf blew in an arch, unclasped,
From her bare shoulder backward borne.
Off inserted in 1842. Here in 1833 follows a stanza, excised in 1842:--
He thro' the streaming crystal swam, and rolled
Ambrosial breaths that seemed to float
In light-wreathed curls. She from the ripple cold
Updrew her sandalled foot. ]
[Footnote 22: 1833. Over. ]
[Footnote 23: 1833. Not. ]
[Footnote 24: 1833. Many a. ]
[Footnote 25: The Caucasian range forms the north-west margin of the
great tableland of Western Asia, and as it was the home of those races
who afterwards peopled Europe and Western Asia and so became the fathers
of civilisation and culture, the "Supreme Caucasian mind" is a
historically correct but certainly recondite expression for the
intellectual flower of the human race, for the perfection of human
ability.
