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Aloidae, 174

Alps, earthquakes in, 191

Altars, kindling of, part of a solemn ban-
quet, 345

Alter ab undecimo, 83

Altius repetere, 333

Arator, of a countryman, 358
Aratus, Virgil's relation to, 126 foll.; his
literary characteristics, 127: his mate-
rials, how dealt with by Virgil, 181 foll.
Arbos, not the vine but its supporter, 57,
203, 221, 223, 225

Altus, of a river, 158: altum, the main sea, Arbos and arbor, 41

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Ambrosia, 349

Amellus, flower so called, 332
Aminaean vines, 204

Amoebaean singing, principle of, 36
Amor for studium, 97

Martis, 103: habendi, 322
Amores, of love-songs, 81, 104
of the loved object, 271

Amurga (amurca), 164

Anacolutha, in Virgil, 310, 330
Anethus, 34

Angina, of swine, 294

Anima Mundi, doctrine of, 186, 326
Animi, with verbs, adjectives, &c., 277,
356

Animosus, shades of meaning of, 240, 259
Animus, of the memory, 96: inanis, 224:
animos tollere, 231

Annus, original meaning of, 237

magnus, doctrine of, 47

Arbustam, 37

Arbutus, eaten by kids, 43

Arcadia, historical and poetical characters
of, 2, 72

Arcturus, rising and setting of stormy, 165
Ardere perdite amare, with accusative,
29

Arena, of the soil of a river, 335

Arethusa, the conventional pastoral foun-
tain, 99: her union with Alpheus, ib.
Argitis, a name of wine, 204
Argutus, of form, 259

Aridus, of sounds, 182

Aristae, in the sense of messis, 27

Aristaeus, traditional account of, 146, 333:
not originally mentioned in Georgic iv.
302

Ariusian wine, 60

Arma ferre, 194

Armare, of rigging ships, 171
Armenians, submission of, 255

Armenta and pecudes distinguished, 250:
armenta, of horses, 277

Army, Roman, disposition of, at different
periods, 223

Arx, of a mountain, 169, 211, 250
Ascanius, river, 275
'Aokwλiaoμóc, 234

Aspice, calling attention, 97
Aspicere, of favourable regard, 303
Assaracus, ancestor of Aeneas, 255

Anser, a poet contemporary with Virgil, 95 Asses, flesh of, 287
Ante exspectatum, 282

omnia, intensive with adjective, 244
quam, with subjunctive, 336

Antes, 238

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Assyrius, used loosely, 243

At non, in elliptical expressions, 282, 360
Ater, of noxious things, 157, 208, 288, 348
Athens, plague of, 292

"Aloç, supposed form of "A0wc, 179
Atmosphere, diseases connected with, 293
Atque—atque, like et—et, 56

in an apodosis, 165

--, trajection of, 66

Auctor, used in its etymological sense, 147
Auλoc, an epithet of the evening star, 71
Avoç, kappaλéos, Eŋpós, of sounds, 182
Aures, of the plough, 161

Aureus, epithet of Saturn, 250

Auritus, by whom used, 177

Aut, introducing a new question, 339

Autobiographical introductions and conclu-
sions to poems, 362

Autumnus (auctumnus), perhaps of the
fruits of autumn, 196

Avernus, lake of, 210

Avertere, of derangement, 86

Averti, with accusative, 294

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Balance, in the Zodiac, sometimes placed in Bull, zodiacal sign of, rising of, 167

the scorpion's claws, 148

Balantes, use of, for sheep, 173, 291
Balsam, 206

Barbarians introduced into the Roman ar-
mies, 28

Barley supposed to degenerate into darnel
and wild oats, 57

Basket-work, one of the husbandman's home
occupations, 35, 106
Bath Col, 191

Beans, when sown, 166
Bede, his
116.
Bee, queen, supposed by the ancients to be
a male, 310: clipping or cutting off of its
wings, 313 regulates the working bees,
326.

'Conflictus Veris et Hiemis,'

Bees make holes for themselves, 307: dis-
like strong smells, 308, 327: whether
pleased by the tinkling of metal, 310:
why they fight, ib.: Virgil's magnilo-
quence about, ib., 312, 321: frightened
by dust, 312: two varieties of, ib. : le-
gend concerning, 319: division of labour
among, ib.: commence their work in the
top of the hive, 320: avoid rain, ib.:
ballast themselves with stones, 323: ge-
neration of, ib.: duration of their life,
324 symptoms of disease among, 331:
produced from oxen, 333 foll.
Bidens, a hoe, 231, 236

Bird-catching, how far allowed on holy-
days, 172

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Bulls with gilded horns in triumphal pro-
cessions, 167, 209, 344

Bumastus, 205

Buris, 161

Buskins worn by Bacchus, 196

C.

Cacumen, a cutting from the top of a tree,
198

Cadere, of being left to fall, 31: of winds,
97

Cadit aliquid in aliquem, 93

Caeli orbis, of a planet, 180: caeli menses,
&c., 179, 280

Caeruleus, meanings of, 169, 346, 355
Caesar the dictator, omens connected with
his death, 56, 96, 190 foll.: his birth-
day, when kept, 59
Calabria, Cilician pirates transplanted by
Pompey into, 315
Calathus, for a cup, 60
Calcare, of other kinds of pressure than
treading, 218

Calliopea, other form of Calliope, 53
Calor, neuter, 230
Calpurnius (T. Siculus), early editions of his
Bucolics, 108: whether the author of
those inscribed to Nemesianus, 108 foll.:
does not elide long vowels at all, 109:
probable date of, 110: contents and cha-
racter of his work, 110 foll.
Caltha, not fragrant, 34

Calves taught to step together, 266
Campi natantes, 269: patentes, 311
Camurus, 257

Canalis, 331

Candidus, of beauty, 58

Canor, 310

Blood, coldness of, connected with slowness Cantabri, victory over, 255

of intellect, 245

Bloodshed, fertilizing effect of, 193

Boats on the Nile, 334

Capere ingressus, 338

Capi, captus, of injury or loss, 163
Capistrum, 268, 286

Caput, both of the root and of the top | Color, of beauty, 31,

branches, 231: of a river, 338

Carceres, 194, 261

Carchesium, 345
Carenum, 175

Carmen, of a magic song, 86
Carpere, of spinning, 339
Casia, 34, 243

Castella, of Alpine forts, 292
Castoreum, where produced, 150
Caucasus covered with woods, 240
Caurus (Corus), 276

Caves, poets placed in, 358
Cavus of a river, 178, 350

Cedar and cypress, durability of, 241
Celeus, 160

Cella (vinaria), 204

Centaurs and Lapithae, 242

Centaury, 332

Coloratus, of dark colour, 335
Colorem ducere, 96

Columella, his poem on gardening, 318
Columnae rostratae, 254
Coma, of a flower, 317

Commodus, of human qualities, 316
Comparative particles, meaning of, in dif-
ferent languages, 325

Compitalia, 234

Concidere, 220

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Ceos, its connexion with Aristaeus, 146: Constituere, statuere, a sacrificial word, 361

its fertility, ib.

Ceres, whether identified with the moon,

145 offerings to, 180

Cerintha, 309

Certamen ponere,

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Certe, at any rate,' 103

equidem, 92

ginning, 40

Consumere in aliquem (aliquid), 267
Contemplator, 163

Continere, of confinement to the house, 171
Contingere and continguere, 286, 290

Continuo, 150, 161, 258, 276, 330

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Contrarius, unfavourable,' 174

Contubernales, given to slaves, 23, 42, 73

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Copulative, where some other particle might
have been expected, 73: coupling things
not co-ordinate, 274
Cor, of the intellect, 156
Corpora curare, 322

Corpus in periphrases, 256, 258: of de-
parted spirits, 354

Corripere campum, &c. 261

Corsica not known to have been famous for

yews, 94

Cortex, the bark of the suber, 242

Corulus or corylus, 21

Coruscare with ablative, 310

Corycus famous for saffron, 315

Cosmogony, Virgil's inconsistent views of,
65, 229

Cotes for sheep and goats, position of, 278
Cowherd, goatherd, and shepherd united in

the same person, 73

Cows rarely have twins, 38: points of, 256
Cranes descend before rain, 183

Crasis, metrical effect of, 191

Crater declined by Virgil as Greek, 59:
size of, 242

Crates, bush-harrows, 154

Cogere in ordinem, &c., 201: cogere, of Credere aliquid, 104

gathering produce, 328
audire, 65

Cognoscere

Cohortes villaticae, 281

Cold, said to burn, 153

Colere vitam, aevum, &c., 249
Coleridge referred to, 14
Colligere sitim, 280
Colocasia, 49

Crescere, Döderlein's etymology of, 229: in
ventrem, &c., 315

Creta for argilla, 162, 212, 216
Crocus, colour of, 322

Crops, charming away of, 89

Cross-ploughing, 154

Crown, rising and setting of the stars so
called, 167

Crowning a bowl, Virgil's notion of, 249
Crustumerium or Crustumium, 203
Cubilia, for those that lie in them, 329
Cuius as an adjective archaic, 36
Culpa, of disease, 292

Cultus, in the sense of cura, 144

Cum, of close connexion, e.g. of causation,
239

- primis and cumprimis, 162

Deerunt, deesse, disyllables, 214
Deficere, with accusative, 159, 175
Defigere, with dative, 225

Defluere, of floating or swimming down,
290

Defringere and deplantare, 226
Defrutum, 175, 332

Dehinc, disyllable, 266

Deification of the sons of gods, 339

Cumulus, of the earth at the top of the Deiicere, in hunting, 288

ridges, 155

Cur non with present indicative, 51
Cura, of the object of care, 26, 101
Curare, of vine-dressing, 236
Curculio, 163

Curetes, 319

Currus, of a thing in motion, 162: for equi,
260
Curvus, expressing the attitude of plough-
ing, 39: of the holes of snakes, 216, 299
Custos, with genitive of thing guarded
against, 314

Cyllarus, the horse of Castor or Pollux, 259
Cymaeus or Cumaeus, 47

Cymbeline (Shakspeare's), its incongruity
paralleled with that of the Eclogues, 10
Cyrene or Cyrene, 338: spelling of, ib.
Cytisus, what, 28: bees fond of it, 102
Cytorus, its box-trees, 240

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Dead body, robe put on, 357

Deiopea (Δηιόπεια), 341
Delectus and dilectus, 258

Demittere and subducere, of a slope differ-
ently regarded, 92

Dens, of any curved implement, 237, 239
Densare and densere, 186
Densus, of soil, 223
Dentale, 161

Depasci, with accusative, 291
Depellere, senses of, 22, 43
Deprendi, of being overtaken in a storm,

349

Dercylos the Arcadian, inventor of springes,
&c., 371

Deripere and diripere confounded, 196
Despicere and dispicere confounded, 213
Destiny, accusation of, 297

Detexere, of completing work, 36
Detrectare and detractare, 257
Devolvere, of spinning, 341

Di patrii distinguished from indigetes, 193
Diana assists the shepherd in hunting, 42,
75: Arician, festival of, 372

Didactic poetry, brief sketch of the history
of, 119 foll.

Diducere, to break and loosen, 231
Dies, archaic inflexions of, 165: feminine
and masculine in close connexion, 173
Differre, of transplanting, 317
Difficilis, metaphorical use of, 212
Digging and ploughing in vineyards, 231,
236 in oliveyards, 239
Dignus, shades of meaning of, 161
Dionysiac festivals, 234
Dirigere aciem, 224

Dis in composition, intensive, 38
Dium (divum), 289

Diversus, of things locally separated, 343
Dodona, oracles of, whence drawn, 197
Dog-star, setting of, 167

Dogs, Molossian, 286: Spartan, 256, 282,
286 food for, 286

Domare, uses of, 242
Donarium, of a temple, 298

Decedere, of stars or sun setting, 167: with Donec, with indicative and subjunctive, 300

dative, 88, 306

Decurrere, of ships, 199
Deducere, metaphorical use of, 63: its dif-
ferent uses in connexion with water, 156,
172 of ships, 171: and diducere con-
founded, 231: of leading in triumph, 253
Deerro, disyllable, 73

Doors and gates, ornaments of, 254
Doris put for the sea, 99
Dorsum nemoris, 289

Drains to be half filled with small stones or
gravel, 156

Drinking did not begin till after the first
course, 205

Drones, how treated, 320
Dryads, number of, 345
Dryden on the Dutch, 284
Ducere, of speeding time along, 284: fu-
nus, 331

Duci, of animals led, not dragged, to the
altar, 236, 362

Dulichium or Dulichia, Ulysses supposed to
belong to, 70

Dum, with present followed by pluperfect,
73: by imperfect, 363: with subjunctive,

353

93

after dum-dumque, 60 (69)

Epicureans supposed the sun to perish every
day, 170

Epidaurus for Argolis, 256

Epithets, local, Virgil's habit of character-
izing things by, 7, 25, 56, 92, 105, 145,
241, 253, 282, 321, 339
Eques not for equus, 262
Eratosthenes, passage from his Hermes,
168
Ergo, 324
Erichthonius, 262
Eridanus, see Po.
ἐριθάκη, 307

redeo, while I am on my way back,' | Error, of madness, 83, 296

Duplex spina, 259

Durare, intransitive use of, 66

E facili, &c., 306

E.

E, shortened in third person plural of per-
fect, 207

E, termination of Greek feminine adjectives
in, 100

Ea, pronounced monosyllabically in Greek
accusative, 65, 174

Ear, touching of, to recall a thing to the
memory, 63

Earthquake, affecting rivers, 191
Ecce autem, 296

Eclogue, first, confusion in, 11, 19, 24
Eclogues, date of their composition, 16, 17
language of, not generally drama-
tic, 13: rustic expressions in, ib. 38, 74
names in, almost wholly Greek,

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Erumpere se, 343

Ervum, 45

Essedum, 270

Et, atque, where some other conjunction
might have been expected, 202, 236
Etiamnum and etiam nunc, 316

Etruria, connexion of with Rome, 193;
divisions in, during the civil war, 194:
pipers perhaps came from, 214: why
mentioned by Virgil, 249

Eudoxus, 39
Eumelus, 338
Euphorion, 104

Evolvere, of recounting, 358
Ex, singular position of, 64

-

ordine, of continuous succession in
time, 358

Excipere, to receive from another, 230, 324
Excitare, of building, 362
Excludi tempore, 318

Excretus from excernere, 286
Exercere iras, 265
Exercita cursu, 298
Exesus, of a cavern, 349
Eximius, of cattle for sacrifice, 360
Exire, of shooting up, 202, 233
Exorsum, exorsus = exordium, 200
Explorare insidias, 299
Exportare, &c., of burial, 331
Exsequi, senses of, 303
Exsilium, of the place of exile, 248
Exsuperabilis, active, 255
Exta muta, 294

Extulit, with a present force, 22
Extundere, of invention, 337, 339

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