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Homer, Iliad, 4.422-4.426
ὡς δʼ ὅτʼ ἐν αἰγιαλῷ πολυηχέϊ κῦμα θαλάσσης and terribly rang the bronze upon the breast of the prince as he moved; thereat might terror have seized even one that was steadfast of heart.As when on a sounding beach the swell of the sea beats, wave after wave, before the driving of the West Wind; out on the deep at the first is it gathered in a crest, but thereafter
ὄρνυτʼ ἐπασσύτερον Ζεφύρου ὕπο κινήσαντος· and terribly rang the bronze upon the breast of the prince as he moved; thereat might terror have seized even one that was steadfast of heart.As when on a sounding beach the swell of the sea beats, wave after wave, before the driving of the West Wind; out on the deep at the first is it gathered in a crest, but thereafter
πόντῳ μέν τε πρῶτα κορύσσεται, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα and terribly rang the bronze upon the breast of the prince as he moved; thereat might terror have seized even one that was steadfast of heart.As when on a sounding beach the swell of the sea beats, wave after wave, before the driving of the West Wind; out on the deep at the first is it gathered in a crest, but thereafter
χέρσῳ ῥηγνύμενον μεγάλα βρέμει, ἀμφὶ δέ τʼ ἄκρας is broken upon the land and thundereth aloud, and round about the headlands it swelleth and reareth its head, and speweth forth the salt brine: even in such wise on that day did the battalions of the Danaans move, rank after rank, without cease, into battle; and each captain gave charge to his own men, and the rest marched on in silence; thou wouldst not have deemed
κυρτὸν ἐὸν κορυφοῦται, ἀποπτύει δʼ ἁλὸς ἄχνην· is broken upon the land and thundereth aloud, and round about the headlands it swelleth and reareth its head, and speweth forth the salt brine: even in such wise on that day did the battalions of the Danaans move, rank after rank, without cease, into battle; and each captain gave charge to his own men, and the rest marched on in silence; thou wouldst not have deemed

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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 203-212, 202 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 202. Might will be right and shame shall cease to be
2. Homer, Iliad, 4.423-4.426, 4.439-4.445, 4.450-4.456 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 4.423. /and terribly rang the bronze upon the breast of the prince as he moved; thereat might terror have seized even one that was steadfast of heart.As when on a sounding beach the swell of the sea beats, wave after wave, before the driving of the West Wind; out on the deep at the first is it gathered in a crest, but thereafter 4.424. /and terribly rang the bronze upon the breast of the prince as he moved; thereat might terror have seized even one that was steadfast of heart.As when on a sounding beach the swell of the sea beats, wave after wave, before the driving of the West Wind; out on the deep at the first is it gathered in a crest, but thereafter 4.425. /is broken upon the land and thundereth aloud, and round about the headlands it swelleth and reareth its head, and speweth forth the salt brine: even in such wise on that day did the battalions of the Danaans move, rank after rank, without cease, into battle; and each captain gave charge to his own men, and the rest marched on in silence; thou wouldst not have deemed 4.426. /is broken upon the land and thundereth aloud, and round about the headlands it swelleth and reareth its head, and speweth forth the salt brine: even in such wise on that day did the battalions of the Danaans move, rank after rank, without cease, into battle; and each captain gave charge to his own men, and the rest marched on in silence; thou wouldst not have deemed 4.439. /and bleat without ceasing as they near the voices of their lambs: even so arose the clamour of the Trojans throughout the wide host; for they had not all like speech or one language, but their tongues were mingled, and they were a folk summoned from many lands. These were urged on by Ares, and the Greeks by flashing-eyed Athene 4.440. /and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst 4.441. /and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst 4.442. /and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst 4.443. /and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst 4.444. /and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst 4.445. /as she fared through the throng, making the groanings of men to wax. 4.450. /Then were heard alike the sound of groaning and the cry of triumph of the slayers and the slain, and the earth flowed with blood. As when winter torrents, flowing down the mountains from their great springs to a place where two valleys meet, join their mighty floods in a deep gorge 4.451. /Then were heard alike the sound of groaning and the cry of triumph of the slayers and the slain, and the earth flowed with blood. As when winter torrents, flowing down the mountains from their great springs to a place where two valleys meet, join their mighty floods in a deep gorge 4.452. /Then were heard alike the sound of groaning and the cry of triumph of the slayers and the slain, and the earth flowed with blood. As when winter torrents, flowing down the mountains from their great springs to a place where two valleys meet, join their mighty floods in a deep gorge 4.453. /Then were heard alike the sound of groaning and the cry of triumph of the slayers and the slain, and the earth flowed with blood. As when winter torrents, flowing down the mountains from their great springs to a place where two valleys meet, join their mighty floods in a deep gorge 4.454. /Then were heard alike the sound of groaning and the cry of triumph of the slayers and the slain, and the earth flowed with blood. As when winter torrents, flowing down the mountains from their great springs to a place where two valleys meet, join their mighty floods in a deep gorge 4.455. /and far off amid the mountains the shepherd heareth the thunder thereof; even so from the joining of these in battle came shouting and toil.Antilochus was first to slay a warrior of the Trojans in full armour, a goodly man amid the foremost fighters, Echepolus, son of Thalysius. Him was he first to smite upon the horn of his helmet with crest of horse-hair 4.456. /and far off amid the mountains the shepherd heareth the thunder thereof; even so from the joining of these in battle came shouting and toil.Antilochus was first to slay a warrior of the Trojans in full armour, a goodly man amid the foremost fighters, Echepolus, son of Thalysius. Him was he first to smite upon the horn of his helmet with crest of horse-hair
3. Varro, On Agriculture, 2.1.18, 2.5.12 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.103, 1.136-1.145, 1.250-1.261, 1.922-1.930, 5.735, 5.1076 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
5. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.603-1.605 1.603. or with the flowing honey storing close 1.604. the pliant cells, until they quite run o'er 1.605. with nectared sweet; while from the entering swarm
6. Vergil, Georgics, 2.61-2.62, 2.362-2.370, 2.397, 2.412, 2.467-2.472, 2.514-2.515, 3.95-3.100, 3.215-3.241, 3.243-3.244, 3.258-3.263, 3.266-3.269, 3.272-3.277, 3.289, 3.323-3.338, 3.515, 3.519-3.522, 3.526-3.530 2.61. Skirt but the nearer coast-line; see the shore 2.62. Is in our grasp; not now with feigned song 2.362. In equal rows symmetric, not alone 2.363. To feed an idle fancy with the view 2.364. But since not otherwise will earth afford 2.365. Vigour to all alike, nor yet the bough 2.366. Have power to stretch them into open space. 2.367. Shouldst haply of the furrow's depth inquire 2.368. Even to a shallow trench I dare commit 2.369. The vine; but deeper in the ground is fixed 2.370. The tree that props it, aesculus in chief 2.397. Can they recover, and from the earth beneath 2.412. With quickening showers to his glad wife's embrace 2.467. Hedges too must be woven and all beast 2.468. Barred entrance, chiefly while the leaf is young 2.469. And witless of disaster; for therewith 2.470. Beside harsh winters and o'erpowering sun 2.471. Wild buffaloes and pestering goats for ay 2.472. Besport them, sheep and heifers glut their greed. 2.514. Twice weeds with stifling briers o'ergrow the crop; 2.515. And each a toilsome labour. Do thou praise 3.95. His lofty step, his limbs' elastic tread: 3.96. Dauntless he leads the herd, still first to try 3.97. The threatening flood, or brave the unknown bridge 3.98. By no vain noise affrighted; lofty-necked 3.99. With clean-cut head, short belly, and stout back; 3.100. His sprightly breast exuberant with brawn. 3.215. But corn-ears with thy hand pluck from the crops. 3.216. Nor shall the brood-kine, as of yore, for thee 3.217. Brim high the snowy milking-pail, but spend 3.218. Their udders' fullness on their own sweet young. 3.219. But if fierce squadrons and the ranks of war 3.220. Delight thee rather, or on wheels to glide 3.221. At placeName key= 3.222. And in the grove of Jupiter urge on 3.223. The flying chariot, be your steed's first task 3.224. To face the warrior's armed rage, and brook 3.225. The trumpet, and long roar of rumbling wheels 3.226. And clink of chiming bridles in the stall; 3.227. Then more and more to love his master's voice 3.228. Caressing, or loud hand that claps his neck. 3.229. Ay, thus far let him learn to dare, when first 3.230. Weaned from his mother, and his mouth at time 3.231. Yield to the supple halter, even while yet 3.232. Weak, tottering-limbed, and ignorant of life. 3.233. But, three years ended, when the fourth arrives 3.234. Now let him tarry not to run the ring 3.235. With rhythmic hoof-beat echoing, and now learn 3.236. Alternately to curve each bending leg 3.237. And be like one that struggleth; then at last 3.238. Challenge the winds to race him, and at speed 3.239. Launched through the open, like a reinless thing 3.240. Scarce print his footsteps on the surface-sand. 3.241. As when with power from Hyperborean clime 3.243. Dry clouds and storms of placeName key= 3.244. And rippling plains 'gin shiver with light gusts; 3.258. Whether on steed or steer thy choice be set. 3.259. Ay, therefore 'tis they banish bulls afar 3.260. To solitary pastures, or behind 3.261. Some mountain-barrier, or broad streams beyond 3.262. Or else in plenteous stalls pen fast at home. 3.263. For, even through sight of her, the female waste 3.266. With her sweet charms can lovers proud compel 3.267. To battle for the conquest horn to horn. 3.268. In Sila's forest feeds the heifer fair 3.269. While each on each the furious rivals run; 3.272. With mighty groaning; all the forest-side 3.273. And far placeName key= 3.274. Nor wont the champions in one stall to couch; 3.275. But he that's worsted hies him to strange clime 3.276. Far off, an exile, moaning much the shame 3.277. The blows of that proud conqueror, then love's lo 3.289. As in mid ocean when a wave far of 3.323. Or warlike wolf-kin or the breed of dogs? 3.324. Why tell how timorous stags the battle join? 3.325. O'er all conspicuous is the rage of mares 3.326. By Venus' self inspired of old, what time 3.327. The Potnian four with rending jaws devoured 3.328. The limbs of Glaucus. Love-constrained they roam 3.329. Past Gargarus, past the loud Ascanian flood; 3.330. They climb the mountains, and the torrents swim; 3.331. And when their eager marrow first conceive 3.332. The fire, in Spring-tide chiefly, for with Spring 3.333. Warmth doth their frames revisit, then they stand 3.334. All facing westward on the rocky heights 3.335. And of the gentle breezes take their fill; 3.336. And oft unmated, marvellous to tell 3.337. But of the wind impregnate, far and wide 3.338. O'er craggy height and lowly vale they scud 3.515. With showers of Spring and rainy south-winds earth 3.519. Soon as the fens are parched, and earth with heat 3.520. Is gaping, forth he darts into the dry 3.521. Rolls eyes of fire and rages through the fields 3.522. Furious from thirst and by the drought dismayed. 3.526. To glittering youth transformed he winds his spires 3.527. And eggs or younglings leaving in his lair 3.528. Towers sunward, lightening with three-forked tongue. 3.529. of sickness, too, the causes and the sign 3.530. I'll teach thee. Loathly scab assails the sheep

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subject	book bibliographic info
amor,as destructive force	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 96
amor,in georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263, 264
animals	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 96, 263, 264
anthropomorphism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 96, 263, 264
apollonius rhodius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 96
aristotle	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263
bees	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 96
cattle	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 96, 263, 264
formulae	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 264
georgics ,language of science in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 164
georgics ,moral role of gods in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 164
harrison,e.l.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 164
homeric similes	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 96, 263
horses	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263, 264
imagery,dionysiac	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 264
imagery,fire	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263
imagery,military	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263, 264
imagery,storms	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263
lucretius,formulae in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 264
lucretius,natura in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 96
muses	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 264
natura	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 96
pastoral	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 264
plague,as representation of suffering of the guiltless	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 164
poetry and poetics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 264
science,language of,for sign theory	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 164
sheep	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 264
signs,as disease symptoms	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 164
similes	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263, 264
storms	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263
varro	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263
virgil,and homer	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263
virgil,reception of lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 264
war,civil war	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 96, 263, 264
war,in the georgics'	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 264
war,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 263
winnington-ingram,r.p.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 164