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Title: Readings from Latin Verse
With Notes

Author: Curtis C. Bushnell

Release Date: September 21, 2010 [EBook #33786]

Language: English

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Produced by Michael Gray, alumnus, Santa Clara University
Classics Department

READINGS FROM LATIN VERSE

WITH NOTES

BY

CURTIS C. BUSHNELL, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS IN SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Boston
ALLYN AND BACON
1908

COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY
CURTIS C. BUSHNELL.

FRANCISCO - SMALLEY
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

THIS little book has been prepared to meet the needs of my own classes.
The selections have been made primarily with reference to their literary
merit, but also with the intention of introducing the student to a
number of authors not usually read in the earlier portion of the college
course.

The notes are greatly indebted to the works named under the heading,
'Reference.'

I am under obligations to Professor E. C. Morris of Syracuse University
for the correction of the manuscript of the notes, and to Mr. N. L.
Willey, Syracuse University, 1908, for assistance in proof-reading.
C. C. B.
SYRACUSE, N.Y.

READINGS FROM LATIN VERSE.

CLASSICAL LATIN POETRY.

I. ENNIUS.

FROM THE ANNALS.

_1. The Lament for Romulus._

Pectora fida tenet desiderium: simul inter
sese sic memorant, 'o Romule, Romule die,
qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt!
O pater, o genitor, o sanguen dis oriundum,
tu produxisti nos intra luminis oras.' 5

_2. Pyrrhus dismissing the Prisoners without Ransom._

Nec mi aurum posco nec mi pretium dederitis:
nec cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes
ferro, non auro, vitam cernamus utrique.
Vosne velit an me regnare era quidve ferat Fors
virtute experiamur. Et hoc simul accipe dictum: 5
quorum virtuti belli fortuna pepercit
eorundem libertati me parcere certumst.
Dono ducite doque volentibus cum magnis dis.

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