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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
ac
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
according
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Albunea
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
Albunea's
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Albuneæ
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
All
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
allurements
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Amem
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From this reading RUS IN URBE _Romæ Tibur Amem, ventosus.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
Anio
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
Anio's
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
argumentnounUS /ˈɑːrɡjəmənt/
a reason or example used to support an idea
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Augustus
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
banter
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
best
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
breezes
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
ByprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
canmodal verbUS /kæn/
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
capped
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
chattiest
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
classic
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
companionable
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
Compare
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
cool
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
countless
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
dewy
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
diffuse
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
disputed
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
domus
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
drunk
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
echoing
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Et
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
fair
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
flood
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
foibles
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
fountain
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
fragrant
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Give
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
glades
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
graceful
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
grassy
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
grove
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
half-indulgent
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
hall
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
hanging
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
hathauxiliary verbUS /hæθ/
an old form of “has”
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
headlong
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
heart
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
held
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
high-hanging
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
hills
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
home
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Horace
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
How
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
INprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading RUS IN URBE _Romæ Tibur Amem, ventosus.
inmost
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
landscape
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Latin
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laughing
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like
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long
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
Lord
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
lordship
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
loved
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
lucus
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
lyrics
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
makes
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
Martin
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
mepronounUS /miː/
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
Mobilibus
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
most
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
neighbour's
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observe
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
orchards
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
original
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
Ovid
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
own
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
pleasantest
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
pomaria
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
præceps
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
Quam
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
quantity
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
quoth
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
Ravensworth
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Reflected
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
resonantis
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
retirement
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
rich
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
ridiculing
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
rills
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
rivis
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
rocky
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Romam
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
Romæ
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From this reading RUS IN URBE _Romæ Tibur Amem, ventosus.
RUS
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From this reading RUS IN URBE _Romæ Tibur Amem, ventosus.
Sabine
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
satirist
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
say
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
second
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
slopes
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
sparkling
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
summer
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
sybil-haunted
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
syllable
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
ta'en
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
Theodore
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
thoughconjunctionUS /ðoʊ/
in spite of the fact that
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
thousand
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
throughprepositionUS /θruː/
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
thus
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Tibur
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From this reading RUS IN URBE _Romæ Tibur Amem, ventosus.
Tibur's
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
Tibure
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
Tiburni
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
Tiburnus
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
torrent
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
translates
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
uda
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From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
URBE
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From this reading RUS IN URBE _Romæ Tibur Amem, ventosus.
ventosus
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From this reading RUS IN URBE _Romæ Tibur Amem, ventosus.
verses
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
very
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
wandering
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
waterfall
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Compare these with the original, and say which you like best— “Quam domus Albuneæ resonantis, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis.”
whirling
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
whispering
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
wimpling
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
wood
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
woodlands
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From this reading How he loved the cool retirement of his Sabine home, its grassy glades, its hanging woodlands, its fragrant breezes wandering and whispering through those summer slopes, rich in the countless allurements of a landscape that— “Like Albunea’s echoing fountain, All my inmost heart hath ta’en; Give me Anio’s headlong torrent, And Tiburnus’ grove and hills, And its orchards sparkling dewy, With a thousand wimpling rills,” as Theodore Martin translates his Horace, or thus, according to Lord Ravensworth— “Like fair Albunea’s sybil-haunted hall, By rocky Anio’s echoing waterfall, And Tibur’s orchards and high-hanging wood, Reflected graceful in the whirling flood.”
write
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From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.
writers
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From this reading Tibure Romam!_ quoth the Latin satirist, ridiculing his own foibles, like his neighbour’s, with the laughing, half-indulgent banter that makes him the pleasantest, the chattiest, and the most companionable of classic writers.
youpronounUS /juː/
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading His lordship, you observe, who can himself write Latin lyrics as though he had drunk with Augustus, and capped verses with Ovid, makes the second syllable of Albunea long, and a very diffuse argument might be held on this disputed quantity.