The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . t of urguct. Wagner also makes line 299 refer, notto Egypt, but to Syria. 295-298. Ipsos ad usus. For this very purpose.—Hunc an-gustique, &c. This they both cover with the tiling of a narrowroof, and enclose it within confining walls, i. e., cover with a nar-row roof of tile, and shut in with walls, confining between them anarrow space. Observe the zeugma in premunt.—Imbrice. Tileswere originally made perfectly flat; they were afterward formedwith a raised border on each side. In order that the lower edgeof any tile might overlap the upper edge of that wh
The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . t of urguct. Wagner also makes line 299 refer, notto Egypt, but to Syria. 295-298. Ipsos ad usus. For this very purpose.—Hunc an-gustique, &c. This they both cover with the tiling of a narrowroof, and enclose it within confining walls, i. e., cover with a nar-row roof of tile, and shut in with walls, confining between them anarrow space. Observe the zeugma in premunt.—Imbrice. Tileswere originally made perfectly flat; they were afterward formedwith a raised border on each side. In order that the lower edgeof any tile might overlap the upper edge of that which came nextbelow it, its two sides were made to converge downward. Thefollowing wood-cut represents a tiled roof, from a part of which thejoint tiles are removed, in order to show the overlapping and theconvergence of the sides. It was evidently necessary to cover thelines of junction between the rows of flat tiles, and this was doneby the use of semicylindrical tiles called imbrices. Nn2 426 NOTES ON THE GEORGICS. BOOK Qualuor a ventis. In the direction of the four winds, i. the four cardinal points. (Compare Zumpt, L. G., § 304, b.)—Oblzqud luce. With slanting light, i. e., admitting a slantingand half-excluded light. 299-302. Bima fronte. The reference is to a steer two yearsold, and just bending its horns. In the Geoponica (xv., 2, 23) itis called rpiaKovrdfirjvov fiovv, an ox thirty months old.—Spiri-tus oris. The breathing of its mouth, i. e., the mouth itself.—Obsuitur. This stopping of the nostrils and mouth is done inorder that the animal may die the sooner under the blows in-flicted. According to Democritus, however (Geopon., I. c), theanimal is to be first killed by blows, and then all the openingsare to be stopped.—Tunsa per integrum, &c. The crushed in-ner parts are reduced to a pulpy mass throughout the skin thatremains entire, i. e., the skin that encloses them remaining entireand unbroken. Observe that by viscera are here meant all
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