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Key to Latin Hexameter Verse

Key to Latin Hexameter Verse

An Aid to Composition

S. E. Winbolt

First published in 1903 by Methuen & Co.

This edition first published in 2018 by Routledge

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KEY TO
LATIN HEXAMETER VERSE

KEY TO LATIN HEXAMETER VERSE

AN AID TO COMPOSITION

BY

S. E. WINBOLT, M.A.

FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD

A MASTER AT CHRISTS HOSPITAL

Contents

I.

Heus ! iterum jam voce nemus Philomela canora

Personat, arguto maestissima gutture cantans,

Judice te tristis ! Quanta o fallacia verbi.

S.C. (Sertum Carthusianum).

II.

Et, si continuo victorem ea cura subisset,

Rumpere claustra manu sociosque immittere portis,

Ultimus ille dies bello gentique fuisset.

A. ix. 757.

III. ()

Dic, ait, o virgo, quid volt concursus ad amnem?

A. vi. 318.

III. ()

Nunc, o lecta manus, validis incumbite remis ;

Tollite, ferte rates; inimicam findite rostris

Hanc terram, sulcumque sibi premat ipsa carina.

A. x. 294.

III. ()

Et, modo qua graciles gramen carpsere capellae,

Nunc ibi deformes ponunt sua corpora phocae.

Ovid, Met. i. 299.

III. ()

Ne, quaeso, ne me lacrimis, neve omine tanto

Prosequere in duri certamina Martis euntem.

A. xii. 72.

IV.

Solus ego immortale trahens aegerrimus aevum

Carpor: inaresco, te complectente, quietum

Limen ad hoc mundi, dum cana remetior umbra

Secretas orientis imagine vanior aulas.

R. C. Jebb, S.C.

V.

Crescere sic Phoebi plusquam mortale recordor

Carmen, at in turres nebulosam assurgere Trojam.

Ib.

VI.

Et deus hinc toto praeceps se corpore ad undas

Misit, avi similis, quae circum litora, circum

Piscosos scopulos, humilis volat aequora juxta.

A. iv. 253.

VII.

Tum pater Evandrus dextram complexus euntis

Haeret, inexpletus lacrimans, ac talia fatur.

A. viii. 558.

VIII.

Sanguineam torquens aciem, torvumque repente

Clamat: Iomatres,audite, ubiquaeque, Latinae.

A. vii. 399.

IX.

Tum Proteus consueta petens e fluctibus antra

Ibat ; eum vasti circum gens umida ponti

Exultans rorem late dispergit amarum.

G. iv. 429.

X.

Concilies, dixi, caelum mihi. Blanda roganti

Annuis : haud aliter terrae quoque plenior heres

Largirique solet, nec habere quod imputet illud.

R. C. J., S. C.

XI.

Sed teretis ritu palmae tacita ecce! per auras

Erigitur moles. Tum sacra silentia rupit

Barbitos : arguto sonuerunt Cymbala pulsu.

C. G. Curtis, S.C.

XII.

Vota metu duplicant matres, propiusque periclo

It timor, et major Martis jam apparet imago.

A. viii. 556.

XIII.

Allecto torvam faciem et furialia membra

Exuit; in voltus sese transformat aniles.

A. vii . 415.

XIV.

Dixerat : et laetus terra corpora tabo

Dilapsura procul praesumit nare sagaci.

T. S. Evans.

XV.

Interea miris clamoribus antra resultant

Abdita, nec mergi circum increbrescere questus

Cessabat.

W. Hobhouse, Nov. Anth. Ox.

XVI.

Dum trepidant, iit hasta Tago per tempus utrumque

Stridens, trajectoque haesit tepefacta cruore.

A. ix. 418.

XVII.

Ast alios secum includit recipitque ruentes,

Demens, qui Rutulum in medio non agmine regem

Viderit inrumpentem ultroque incluserit urbi.

Ib. 727.

XVIII.

Post idem inter se posito certamine reges

Armati Jovis ante aram paterasque tenentes

Stabunt, et caesa jungebant foedera porca.

A. viii. 639.

XIX.

Id vero horrendum ac visu mirabile ferri:

Namque fore inlustrem fama fatisque canebant

Ipsam, sed populo magnum portendere bellum.

A. vii. 79.

XX.

Detestata, domos Pelei quae invasit opimas

Ultro, conjecitque rotundum epulantibus aurum.

T. S. E.

XXI.

Nunc quoque caligant iterum omnia : nunc quoque colles

Clamant, montivagisque tremunt juga longa cachinnis,

Tamquam terrai motu gavisa recenti.

T. S. E.

XXII.

Hac servant novies intextos orbibus orbes,

Et vim Parcarum dulci lenimine semper

Mulcent, atque manus vitalia fila tenentes.

H. Nettleship, S.C.

XXIII.

Exuviis hirtis hic cinctus corpora Theseus

Conspicitur, Perseusque minax tenet aegida Divae.

R. Henniker, S.C.

XXIV.

Tu senis agnosces tumulum : reparatis honorem

Tu, dea, quot redeunt luces : me terra recondet

Terrenum; per me sileant haec templa licebit,

Tuque albis volvare revolvarisque quadrigis.

R. C. J., S.C.

XXV.

Multa mihi redit ilia dies, cum prima sopores

Excussi : recubantem in floribus umbra tegebat

Frondea : corde agitans multum mirabar ubi essem

Quidve, tulisset eo quae fors atque unda locorum.

T. S. E.

XXVI.

Orabat super : Haud equidem tibi blandiar ullis

Muneribus, neque enim fieri per praemia possim

Candidior. Quae sim, me expende et perspice judex.

T. S. E.

XXVII.

At tuba terribilem sonitum procul aere canoro

Increpuit; sequitur clamor caelumque remugit.

A. ix. 503.

XXVIII.

Aut spoliis ego jam raptis laudabor opimis,

Aut leto insigni. Sorti pater aequus utrique est.

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