P. Ovidi Nasonis Heroides; with the Greek translation of Planudes

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...praepositionem addiderit non reperio. Recte iam enarravit U. Huberus.' Madvig, Adv. Lat., p 72. (Cum totidem cod. Dousae and Shuckburgh's «.) 157. peiueque relinquat: van Lennep refers to Cic. Phil. 2. 27. 65 ut est apud poetam nemo quem male parta male dilabuntur; Plaut. Pocn. 844 male partum male disperit. 158. quaerat... fugam: 'seek a place of refuge.' fuga is nearly perfugium in this phrase. Kuhnken quotes Cic. Phil. 5. 16. 43 fugam quaerebamus quae ipsa exitum non habebat; Prop. a. 16. 40 Iussit et extremo quaercre in orbe fugam. 161. conumpaerit, when she has used up every means of escape in either sea or land. Ovid perhaps was thinking of Eur. Med. 1123 Мю, фгйу, ф»0у, iir¡n rala» tunólo' ¿nf¡vr¡¥ рт úov ntbnoTißij. aera temptet refers to Medea's flight from Corinth in a car drawn by winged serpents, Trist. 3. 8. 3, Eur. Med. ad fin. 162. inope, exapea, 'helpless, hopeless.' Ibis 113 Exul inops erres; Met. 14. 217 Solus, inops, exspes, lelopoenisque reliclus. caede... sua: not caede suorum (Ruhnken), simply ' the blood which she has shed.' Cowper seems to have had these lines in his mind when he wrote ' Rome shall perish--write that word In the blood that she hath spilt; Perish hoeless and abhorred, Deep in ruin as in guilt.' 163. Thoantias: so Thuumanlics (Iris), Sec. 164. Vivite: there is often some bitterness, almost я curse, in this word. Catull. 11.17 Cum suis rival valeatque moechis; Lucil. 5. 41 Vivite lurcones comedones, vivite ventres; Plaift. Men. 727 vidua vivite. VII. DIDO TO AENEAS. It is unnecessary to seek for any source for this epistle beside the fourth book of the Aeneid, which Ovid follows very closely. Knowing ...