 | Heinrich Lausberg, David E. Orton, R. Dean Anderson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 968 pages
...quendam eloquendi ... (cf. § 591); interim ornatum petit solum, qui est apud poetas frequenÃissimus: "tempus erat, quo prima quies mortalibus aegris/ incipit et dono divum gratissima serpit" (Verg. A. 2.268). - Examples of such poetic paraphrases by means of signa would be: 1) the evening:... | |
 | Philip R. Hardie - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 412 pages
...striking in the passage which follows immediately, Aeneas' preface to his account of his dream (268-9): Tempus erat quo prima quies mortalibus aegris incipit et dono divum gratissima serpit. In the melody of the first line we feel again the Trojans' welcome acceptance of sleep, but there is a... | |
 | Haroldo de Campos - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 436 pages
...describe the apparition in a dream, to Aeneas, of Hector, son of Priam (canto 2, verse 268 and following): "Tempus erat quo prima quies mortalibus aegris / Incipit, et dono divum gratissima serpit" ["It was the hour when gentle sleep first comes, / welcome, by God's grace, welcome to weary men"]... | |
 | Classical philology - 1918 - 736 pages
...has this to say in Mostellaria 544: Nil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius. (n) ii. 268 ff.: Tempus erat, quo prima quies mortalibus aegris Incipit et dono divum gratissima serpit. With this should be compared Ovid's beautiful apostrophe to Sleep, Metamorphoses XI. 623 ff.: Somne,... | |
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Tempus erat, quo prima quies mortalibus aegris incipit et dono divum gratissima serpit. 
