After Life in Roman Paganism: Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman FoundationYale University Press, 1922 - 224 pages |
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Page 152 - ... multa diu concreta modis inolescere miris. Ergo exercentur poenis veterumque malorum supplicia expendunt. Aliae panduntur inanes 740 suspensae ad ventos, aliis sub gurgite vasto infectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igni...
Page 108 - And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn The world's poor, routed leavings ? or will they, Who fail'd under the heat of this life's day, Support the fervours of the heavenly morn ? No, no ! the energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun ; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing — only he, His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
Page 121 - Continuo auditae voces, vagitus et ingens, Infantumque animae flentes in limine primo, Quos dulcis vitae exsortes et ab ubere raptos Abstulit atra dies et funere mersit acerbo.
Page 140 - I am a child of Earth and of Starry Heaven; But my race is of Heaven (alone). This ye know yourselves. And lo, I am parched with thirst and I perish. Give me quickly The cold water flowing forth from the Lake of Memory.
Page 140 - Thou shalt find to the left of the House of Hades a Well-spring, and by the side thereof standing a white cypress. To this Well-spring approach not near. But thou shalt find another, from the Lake of Memory — cold water flowing forth, and there are guardians before it.
Page 150 - Has omnes, ubi mille rotam volvere per annos, " Lethaeum ad fluvium deus evocat agmine magno, •' Scilicet immemores supera ut convexa revisant, 750 " Rursus et incipiant in corpora velle reverti.
Page 77 - non ego Tartareas penetrabo tristis ad undas, | non Acheronteis transvehar umbra vadis, | non ego caeruleam remo pulsabo carinam | nee te terribilem fronte timebo Charon, | nee Minos mihi iura dabit grandaevus et atris | non errabo locis nee cohibebor aquis. . . . nam me sancta Venus sedes non nosse silentum | iussit et in caeli lucida templa tulit,
Page 140 - But thou shalt find another, from the Lake of Memory Cold water flowing forth, and there are guardians before it. Say, "I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven; But my race is of heaven (alone).