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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...The winter solstice is called bruma (for brevima). 103. Gargarus, the summit of Mount Ida, in Mysia, proverbially fertile. 104. Comminus, properly, hand to hand (manus), but here, hoe in hand. Keightley justly says: --'The image which seems to have been in the poet's mind is that of the Roman soldier throwing his pilum, and then attacking the foe sword in hand.' 105. Ruo (trans. ) = proruo, to break down. In Hor. Sat. ii. 5, 22, ruam is for eruam, rake out, or as C. thinks, for corruam, rake together. See Aen. i. 35, 85. Q Male pinguis. Some take male to denote excess here (as Hor. Fat. i. 4, 66, male raucus), and render too stiff soil. C. explains it as denoting deficiency (like male sanus, male fidus, male amicus), and renders unfertile; explaining cumulos to be the tops of the ridges, which the man rakes down, and afterwards irrigates the field, but only in the case of sandy soil To this view we incline. 108. Trames, a cross path. W. explains it of the brook itself; but we think clivosus trames = transversus clivus, a ridgy slope running athwart the land. 110. Tempero means to moderate; for instance, the cold with warm, the hot with chill, the strong with weak, &c. j 119. Improbus, an epithet applied often, as here, to that which insists and perseveres in doing something wrong or unpleasant (see 1. 388), insatiable, unconscionable. So Horn. Aior ivcu&js. Some render, the felon goose. 120. Strymonius, from, the Strymon, a river in Thrace haunted by cranes. 120. lutibum, wild endive or chicory. (Notes.) 43. Vere novo. The Romans reckoned their spring from the second week of February, when the west wind (Favonius = Zephyrus) came in. Hor. Od. i. 4, solvitur acris hiems grata vice veris et Favoni. 44. Putris, prolepticaUy used: ...