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    Library Georgics at Standard Ebooks Other sources The Georgics: A Source of Inspiration of Quotations in Wilanów at the Wilanów Palace Museum Georgics public...
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  • Georgic is the singular of Georgics, a poem by Virgil. Georgic may also refer to: SS Georgic, a British steamship of the White Star Line MV Georgic, a...
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    Virgil (section Georgics)
    poem called the Georgics (from Greek, "On Working the Earth"), which he dedicated to Maecenas. The ostensible theme of the Georgics is instruction in...
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    "time flies". The expression comes from line 284 of book 3 of Virgil's Georgics, where it appears as fugit irreparabile tempus: "it escapes, irretrievable...
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    MV Georgic was the last ship built for the White Star Line before its merger with the Cunard Line. Built at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, she...
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    Apollodorus, 1.2.2 & 1.4.5 Virgil, Georgics 4.346 Virgil, Georgics 4.343 Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Apollodorus, 1.2.2 Virgil, Georgics 4.341; Nonnus, Dionysiaca...
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    The SS Georgic was a steam ship built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line to replace the SS Naronic which was lost at sea. Georgic was a cargo...
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    Sol-Luna Ceres-Liber Robigus-Flora Minerva-Venus Lympha-Bonus Eventus In his Georgics, a collection of poetry on agrarian themes, Vergil gives a list influenced...
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  • Georgic and Merlin is a French fairy tale collected by François Cadic in "La Paroisse bretonne". It is Aarne-Thompson type 502. The oldest known tale...
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  • of the horns. Bugonia is described twice in the second half of Virgil's Georgics and frames the Aristaeus epyllion in the second half. The first description...
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  • Ricette veterinarie e georgiche (English: Veterinary and georgic recipes) is a work by the Florentine writer Marco Lastri, first published in 1793. The...
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  • Vergil's Georgics (Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 60. As recorded by Probus and attributed to Asclepiades Tragilensis; Volk, Vergil's Georgics, p. 60...
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    depicted quenching the fires of Vesuvius with water from her breasts. In his Georgics, Virgil stated that he had been nurtured by Parthenope, writing: At that...
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    Pastoral (redirect from Georgic mode)
    Georgics Book III, Shepherd with Flocks, Vergil (Vatican Library)...
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    Lexicon. Vitruvius 1.6.13. Lucretius 1.405. Pliny the Elder 2.48. Virgil, Georgics, 3.356. Hdt. 7.189.3. Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollonius Rhodius: the Argonautica...
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    McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 216. ISBN 9780786471119. Virgil, Georgics 4.336 Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.14, line 339 & 348 Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.40 Lycophron...
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    Virgil's Georgics, notes that Ovid followed Nicander's version of the tale, instead of Theodorus's starring another Alcyone. Virgil in the Georgics also alludes...
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  • cranfield.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-08-14. cnap.unap.ro Virgil (1999). "Georgics". Eclogues; Georgics; Aeneid I- VI. Translated by H. Roushton Fairclough. Cambridge...
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  • so by Iris, who appeared in the shape of Beroe. Nonnus, 41.51 Virgil, Georgics 4.341 Hyginus, Fabulae Preface Nonnus, 41.155 Hyginus, Fabulae 167 Virgil...
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    more serious offences, Georgics (more than 500 hexameters) by their House Masters or the Head Master. The giving of a Georgic is now extremely rare, but...
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  • ISBN 9780874365818. Apollodorus, 1.2.2. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface. Virgil, Georgics 4.343 Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.24.5 Apollodorus, The Library with...
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    Virgil, Georgics 3.391–393. Hard, p. 46; Gantz, p. 36; Kerényi, pp. 175, 196; Grimal, s.v. Selene; Keightley, p. 55; Servius, Commentary on the Georgics of...
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    planned Oceanic was replaced by two smaller ships, MV Britannic and MV Georgic. By the early 1910s, the White Star Line had planned to provide regular...
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  •  127. ISBN 9780786471119. Virgil, Georgics 4.343 This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics 4.343 which suggests that Ephyra...
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    Her running mate ship was the MV Georgic. In 1934 White Star merged with Cunard Line; however, both Britannic and Georgic retained their White Star Line...
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    General Directorate of Antiquities and Restoration: 95. 1971. Virgil, Georgics 4.246 ff Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.196 Salzman-Mitchell, Patricia...
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    poet who came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening...
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    extreme power, and perhaps did not return above; Virgil for example in Georgics writes that "Proserpina cares not to follow her mother", – though note...
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    535-539, trans Humphries Virgil, Georgics 1.38 Miles, p. 68 Virgil (2002). "English translation online". Georgics. Translated by Kline, A.S. Book 4,...
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    video games. In Virgil's classic version of the legend, it completes his Georgics, a poem on the subject of agriculture. Here the name of Aristaeus, or Aristaios...
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