Castro's Brutal Crackdown on Dissidents: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives

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. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...to obtain a favourable answer. 64. For the scansion of this line, cf. G. 3. 189, Invalidus etiamque tremens, etiam inscius vi. 65. vatum ignar i. e. not knowing that to a mind thus diseased all the art of soothsayers and augurs could be of no avail, and that all vows and prayers are vain. 73. Dict os Dicte was a mountain in Crete. Nunc media. Enean secum per m nia ducit, Sidoniasque ostentat opes urbemque paratam; Tncipit effari, mediaque in voce resistit; Nunc eadem labente die convivia quaerit, Iliacosque iterum demens audire labores Exposcit, pendetque iterum narrantis ab ore. Post, ubi digressi, lumenque obscura vicissim Luna premit suadentque cadentia sidera somnos, Sola domo maeret vacua, stratisque relictis Incubat. Ilium absens absentem auditque videtque, Aut gremio Ascanium, genitoris imagine capta, Detinet, infandum si fallere possit amorem. Non c ptae adsurgunt turres, non arma juventus Exercet, portusve aut propugnacula bello Tuta parant; pendent opera interrupta minaeque Murorum ingentes sequataque machina caelo. Quam simul a tali persensit peste teneri Cara Jovis conjux, nee famam obstare furori, Talibus aggreditur Venerem Saturnia dictis: Egregiam vero laudem el? spolia ampia refertis 75. opes her wealth, as displayed in the magnificence of the city.--paratam i. e. for the reception of the Trojans who had none themselves. Cf. 1. 557, 573. 77. eadem sc. Dido. 80. lumen premit vicissim sets in her turn; the signal for breaking up the banquet, which had begun at sunset. 82. stratis relictis the couch tineas had just left. 84. Aut This conjunction and lines 86 sqq., clearly shew that Virgil is not describing the actual events of one given evening, but the queen's behaviour...