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2: Luciferas. 3: Helicon is not named in the original, but it seems to be meant. 4: i.e., in another clime or continent. The writer is (or feigns to be) an African. Helicon, of cours[...] 5: Virtus. 6: Saeculo. 7: Mundum. 8: Compositis. 9: I have endeavoured to give some intelligible sense to these lines; but the absence of syntax in th[...] 10: Venturi aevi. 11: "But in them nature's copy's not eterne." - Shakespeare, Macbeth, act iii. scene 2. 12: Saecula. 13: Saecula. 14: Sermone tenus: i.e., the exertion (so to speak) needed to do such mighty works only extended to t[...] 15: Dicto. 16: i.e., from the solid mass of earth. See Gen. i. 9, 10. 17: Faciem. 18: "Auram," or "breeze." 19: "Immemor ille Dei temere committere tale! Non ultra monitum quidquam contingeret."Whether [...] 20: Munera mundi. 21: These lines, again, are but a guess at the meaning of the original, which is as obscure as defianc[...] 22: Cf. Ps. xlix. 14 (xlviii. 15 in LXX.). 23: i.e., the dust into which our bodies turn. 24: i.e., the surface or ridge of the furrows. 25: i.e., the furrows. 26: "Some thirty-fold, some sixty-fold, some an hundred-fold." See the parable of the sower. 27: Mundo. 28: Fuligine. 29: Mundo. 30: Virtutibus. Perhaps the allusion is to Eph. ii. 2, Matt. xxiv. 29, Luke xxi. 26. 31: Mundi. 32: Vel quanta est. If this be the right sense, the words are probably inserted, because the conflagra[...] 33: I have ventured to alter one letter of the Latin; and for "quos reddere jussa docebit," read "quos[...] 34: Subitae virtutis ab alto. 35: Comis, here "the heads." 36: This passage is imitated from Virgil, Aen., vi. 305 sqq.; Georg., iv. 475 sqq. 37: i.e., "the king." The "Atridae" of Homer are referred to, - Agamemnon "king of men," and Menelaus.[...] 38: Or, "Powers." 39: Insigni. The allusion seems to be to Ezek. ix. 4, 6, Rev. vii.3 et seqq. xx. 3, 4, and to the insc[...] 40: I have corrected "his" for "hic." If the latter be retained, it would seem to mean "hereon." 41: Cardine, i.e., the hinge as it were upon which the sun turns in his course. 42: See the "Genesis," 73. 43: Or, "there." The question is, whether a different tree is meant, or the rose just spoken of. 44: This seems to be marshmallows. 45: Here again it is plain that the writer is drawing his description from what we read of the garden [...] 46: "Salus," health (probably) in its widest sense, both bodily and mental; or perhaps "safety," "salv[...] 47: Reliquam vitam, i.e., apparently his life in all other relations; unless it mean his life after hi[...] 48: i.e., "appeals to." So Burke: "I attest the former, I attest the coming generations." This "attest[...] 49: This seems to be the sense. The Latin stands thus: "Flammas pro meritis, stagnantia tela tremiscun[...] 50: Or, "banished." 51: I adopt the correction (suggested in Migne) of justis for justas. 52: This is an extraordinary use for the Latin dative; and even if the meaning be "for (i.e., to suffe[...] 53: Gehennae. 54: Or, "in all the years:" but see note 5 on this page. 55: Mundo. 56: Mundo. 57: "Artusque sonori," i.e., probably the arms and hands with which (as has been suggested just before[...] 58: i.e., the "guerdons" and the "threats." 59: "Ipsa voce," unless it mean "voice and all," i.e., and their voice as well as their palms. 60: See note 1, p. 137. 61: Here again a correction suggested in Migne's ed., of "suam lucem" for "sua luce," is adopted. 62: "Qui" is read here, after Migne's suggestion, for "quia;" and Oehler's and Migne's punctuation bot[...] 63: Mundi. 64: Or, "assume the functions of the heavenly life." |
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