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" midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill: (Whose groves the Selli, race austere! surround, Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers on the ground; Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees; And catch the fates,... "
The Tragedies of Sophocles - Page 231
by Sophocles - 1820 - 406 pages
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The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, Volume 2

Maximus (of Tyre) - 1804 - 286 pages
...great Pelasgic, Dodonxan Jove ! Who, midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill : Whose groves the Selli, race...And catch the fates, low-whisper'd in the breeze." POPH. f See the additional notes to this volume. who came for the purpose of consulting the oracle,...
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The dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, tr. by T. Taylor, Volume 2

Maximus (Tyrius.) - 1804 - 288 pages
...surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill : Whose groves the Selli, face austere, surround, Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers...And catch the fates, low-whisper'd in the breeze." POPE. 63 who came for the purpose of consulting the oracle, having prayed, slain the victims, and poured...
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The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, Volumes 1-2

Maximus (of Tyre) - 1804 - 562 pages
...on bleak Dodona's vocal hill : Whose groves the Selli, race austere, surround, Their feetunwash'd, their slumbers on the ground ; Who hear from rustling...And catch the fates, low-whisper'd in the breeze." POPE. f See the additional notes to this volume. ivho came for the purpose of consulting the oracle^...
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The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed, Volume 2

John Whitaker - Church buildings - 1804 - 450 pages
...meant, and what he never knew, the oaks plainly, from his silence, becoming oracular after his time, Whose groves the Selli, race austere, surround. Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers on the ground. So far Homer speaks, but it is only Mr. Pope that subjoins thus : Who hear from rustling oaks thy dark...
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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...Pelasgie, Dodonxan Jove ! 285 Who 'midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on hleak Dodona's vocal hill (Whose groves, the Selli, race...ground; Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees; 399 And catch the fates, low-whisper'd in the breeae): Hear, as of old ! Thou gav'st, at Thetis' prayer,...
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The Tragedies of Sophocles

Sophocles - Mythology, Greek - 1808 - 432 pages
...IZ.'i!!. J lower »peaks of these priests in an address to Jupiter » preiidwj on Dodona's focal hilf, Whose groves the Selli, race austere ! surround, Their...from rustling oaks thy dark decrees, , And catch the late* tow-whisper'd in the breeze. Are clear, my son ; behoves thee then to aid Thy father, nor provoke...
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The Iliad of Homer, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...Pelasgic, Dodonaean Jove ! 285 Who 'midst surrounding frosts, and vapors chill, Presid'st on hleak Dodona's vocal hill: (Whose groves, the Selli, race austere! surround, Their feet unwash'd, their slumhers on the ground; Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees ; 2t)0 And catch the fates,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...great Pelasgie, Dodonsean Jove ! Who, 'midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill ; (Whose groves, the Selli, race austere ! surround, Their feet unwash'd, their si umbers on the ground j Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees ; And catch the fates, low-whisperM...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 2

Greek literature - 1813 - 374 pages
...great Pelasgie, Dodomcan Jove ! Who 'midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill : (Whose groves the Selli, race...rustling oaks, thy dark decrees : And catch the fates, low-whjsper'd in the breeze :) Hear, as of old ! Thou gav'st, at Thetis' prayer, Glory to me, and to...
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Archaeologia Graeca, or The antiquities of Greece. To which is ..., Volume 1

John Potter (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1818 - 590 pages
...great Pelasgic, Dodoncan Jove ! Who midst surrounding frosts and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill ; Whose groves, the Selli, race...Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers on the ground. pore. Where some, as we are there informed by Eustathius, read */tfi •?> <? E*AO«, making those...
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