[10] The
translator
read apparently, with Bentley, _bruma superbiae_.
Oxford Book of Latin Verse
But see Notes, pp.
505-12.
[3] For what is said here of this poetry of primitive magic cf. Horace,
_Epp. _ II. i. 134 sqq.
[4] Even of the Italian poets of the Empire few or none are Romans.
Statius and Juvenal are Campanians, Persius is an Etrurian.
[5] _Ancient Lives of Vergil_, p. 26.
[6] In his _Sicily_ Augustus handled a theme of wide patriotic interest:
and it is more than likely, I think, that Vergil in the _Aeneid_ owed,
or affected to owe, a good deal to this poem.
[7] Catullus, xliv.
[8] I borrow this phraseology from Henry's _Aeneidea_, where the
phenomenon is infinitely illustrated.
[9] Said to be intended by the poet for a portrait of himself.
[10] The translator read apparently, with Bentley, _bruma superbiae_.
[11] A composite metre, an anapaestic paroemiac followed by a trochaic
ithyphallic.
[12] _Essays_ I, pp. 55 sqq.
[13] _Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin_ pp. 396-7 and _passim_.
Wordsworth's competence to treat questions of quantity may be judged
from the fact that in a hexameter verse he makes the first syllable of
_caro_ (_carnis_) long: p. 567, l. 16.
[14] _Classical Review_ XXI, pp. 100 sqq.
[15] l. c. , p. 56 note.
[16] _Altgerm.
505-12.
[3] For what is said here of this poetry of primitive magic cf. Horace,
_Epp. _ II. i. 134 sqq.
[4] Even of the Italian poets of the Empire few or none are Romans.
Statius and Juvenal are Campanians, Persius is an Etrurian.
[5] _Ancient Lives of Vergil_, p. 26.
[6] In his _Sicily_ Augustus handled a theme of wide patriotic interest:
and it is more than likely, I think, that Vergil in the _Aeneid_ owed,
or affected to owe, a good deal to this poem.
[7] Catullus, xliv.
[8] I borrow this phraseology from Henry's _Aeneidea_, where the
phenomenon is infinitely illustrated.
[9] Said to be intended by the poet for a portrait of himself.
[10] The translator read apparently, with Bentley, _bruma superbiae_.
[11] A composite metre, an anapaestic paroemiac followed by a trochaic
ithyphallic.
[12] _Essays_ I, pp. 55 sqq.
[13] _Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin_ pp. 396-7 and _passim_.
Wordsworth's competence to treat questions of quantity may be judged
from the fact that in a hexameter verse he makes the first syllable of
_caro_ (_carnis_) long: p. 567, l. 16.
[14] _Classical Review_ XXI, pp. 100 sqq.
[15] l. c. , p. 56 note.
[16] _Altgerm.
