{"id":195,"date":"2007-07-28T23:44:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T04:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=195"},"modified":"2007-07-28T23:44:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T04:44:52","slug":"fielding-translates-silius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Fielding Translates Silius"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silius Italicus doesn’t have much of a Nachleben, but here’s a translation of Punica<\/em> 2.217-221 from The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq.<\/em>, edited by James P. Browne (London, 1903), Volume XI, page 155:<\/p>\n

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            A Simile from Silius Italicus<\/p>\n

Aut ubi cecropius formidine nubis aquosae
\nSparsa super flores examina tollit Hymettos;
\nAd dulces ceras et odori corticis antra,
\nMellis apes gravidæ properant, densoque volatu
\nRaucum connexæ glomerant ad limina murmur.<\/p>\n

Or when th’ Hymettian shepherd, struck with fear
\nOf wat’ry clouds thick gather’d in the air,
\nCollects to waxen cells the scatter’d bees
\nHome from the sweetest flowers, and verdant trees;
\nLoaded with honey to the hive they fly,
\nAnd humming murmurs buzz along the sky.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Silius Italicus doesn’t have much of a Nachleben, but here’s a translation of Punica 2.217-221 from The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq., edited by James P. Browne (London, 1903), Volume XI, page 155:             A Simile from Silius Italicus Aut … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,44,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-latin-literature","category-nachleben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}