This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 17548 | _ Quid dicam quanta jactat se Brassica laude? 17548 But what would you say, if I was to observe to you all that_ Erythræus_ has writ of the Rhyme_ Cum intervallo,& sine intervallo_ in_ Virgil_? 17548 Can it be said that ten dull Words creep on dully in any one of these Lines? 17548 Hujus rei quanta negligentia in_ Statio_,_ Lucano_,_ Claudiano_,_ Silio Italico_? 17548 Is not_ Heav''nly_ as much an Expletive as_ O_, and can either of these Couplets deserve to be plac''d in the Front of the Iliad? 17548 What God the fatal Enmity begun? 17548 What Reason can be given why_ ma_ in_ manus_ is short, and_ ma_ in_ manes_ long? 17548 What Words can be rougher than such as these,_ Rides_,_ Rapt_,_ Throws_,_ Storms_; or smoother than these,_ Wheel_,_ Hush_,_ Lull_? 17548 Whence you are? 17548 Where can a smoother Line than this be found in our Language? 17548 Who does not see Porpoises and Dolphins tumbling about in the Ocean when he reads this Line? |
| 17548 | Why is_ a_ in_ amens_ long, and_ a_ in_ amans_ short, and the like of other Words too numerous to relate? |
| 17548 | Would not any body think that_ Vanerius_ intended to vie with_ Virgil_ in this Place? |
| 10960 | ''Tis hot,she sang,"and dusty; nay, travelers, whither bound? |
| 10960 | Are not the phrases,_ imperium Oceano_ and_ spoliis Orientis onustum_ a direct reference to this triumph which, of course, Vergil saw? |
| 10960 | Can we assume an Epicurean creed with better success? |
| 10960 | Could one find a more fitting place than Venus''s shrine at Sorrento for the invocation of the_ Aeneid_? |
| 10960 | Could she have been the lady he married upon his return from Athens? |
| 10960 | Crump,_ The Growth of the Aeneid_] Was not this the act that prompted the happy idea of writing the epic of Aeneas? |
| 10960 | Does this provide a key with which to unlock the hidden intentions of our strange treasure- trove of miscellaneous allusions? |
| 10960 | Has not Vergil himself referred to the_ Aetna_ in the preface of his_ Ciris_, where he thanks the Muses for their aid in an abstruse poem( l. 93)? |
| 10960 | He had been writing verses; who would not? |
| 10960 | He is powerless to grant Cybele''s prayer that the ships may escape decay: Cui tanta deo permissa potestas? |
| 10960 | How could he but fail? |
| 10960 | If nature was to be trusted, why not man''s nature? |
| 10960 | Is Vergil''s scenery then nothing but literary reminiscence? |
| 10960 | Is not this a reference to the_ Aetna_?] |
| 10960 | Might not the scientific view prove that the passions so far from being diseases, conditioned the very life and survival of the race? |
| 10960 | Or would you rather keep them to lay upon your grave? |
| 10960 | Sed iam jnihi nuntius iste Quid prodest? |
| 10960 | Sweet garlands for cold ashes why should you care to save? |
| 10960 | Was not Antiochus Epiphanes himself a"god,"while as a member of the sect he belittled divinity? |
| 10960 | Were not the instincts a part of man? |
| 10960 | What can this mean but a graceful reminder to Messalla that it was he who had inspired the new effort? |
| 10960 | What else could such a wreckage of enthusiasm and ambitions produce? |
| 10960 | What other poem could he have had in mind? |
| 10960 | What then are we to say of the Stoic coloring of the sixth book? |
| 10960 | Why curse the body, any man''s body, as the root- ground of sin? |
| 10960 | Why should the slopes of Lactarius be less musical than those of Aetna? |
| 10960 | [ Footnote 1: Dequa saepe tibi, venit? |
| 10960 | ilia autem"quid me"inquit,"nutricula, torques? |
| 10960 | quid tantum properas nostros novisse furores? |