

refers to the swift ships of the Rhodians-St., p. Flavus is yellowish-green, caeruleus bluish or greyish green. Priscianus’ quotation, which gives the second line only. A series of appendices detail each sources contribution to our record of. This book explores the genesis, in the ancient sources for Ennius epic and in modern scholarship, of the accounts of the Annales with which we operate today. Caeruleum might be taken with mare-‘swept the sea grey.’ But cp. Ennius Annales, which is preserved only in fragments, was hugely influential on Roman literature and culture. Them with the breeze in sail-fluttering ships, When they saw far off the enemy coming towards iacet ingens litore truncus, avulsumque umeris caput et sine nomine corpus. Macrobius, quoting Virgil: ‘Looking down on the sail-fluttering sea.’. Quantity, Quality, Tension, and Transition: The Dimensions of Vergil’s ingens1 Lorina Quartarone. Smooth glided the well-greased keel and its rush skimmed over the waves. Macrobius, quoting Virgil: ‘Smooth glides the well-greased fir-wood through the waters.’ Ennius in the fourteenth book. įorthwith they gently swept a sea of yellow marble green foamed the brine a beaten by the thronging ships. Gellius: You made me understand those very charming words from Ennuis’ fourteenth book of Annals. Etenim in iis regionibus plures ejusmodi militum. Annals Book XIV From the Departure of the Scipios to the settlement of Asia after the Battle of Magnesia 372–3ĭefeat of Polyxenidas by Aemilius Rcgillus at Myonnesus, 190 b.c. Ex omni hominum numero, qui erant nobiscum in navi, unum omnes adibant, circumstabant, rogabant quonam pacto fortuna ita repente ex summis opibus redegisset ad incitas militem quendam, cujus nomen non memini, ex quodam honorariorum militum ordine, cujus ipse auctor extiterat.
