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And then he gave his orders to his subordinates just as if she had been a mere chattel, a bale of goods or something of the kind, and not an heiress of distinction. "Take out the horses," he cried to the municipal guards; "we can use them for carrying water." "Help the ladies out of the chariot." "Take them between you Nonnus and Lucanus." "Now, stow the chariot in there among the bushes."
John?" demanded Apollo maliciously. "Indeed, good youth," said the Governor, who wished to favour Nonnus, "methinks the condition is somewhat exorbitant. A single book might suffice, surely!" "I am quite content," replied Apollo. "If he consents to burn any of his books he is no poet, and I wash my hands of him."
It was said that, when the Titans attacked Dionysus and tore him to pieces, they painted themselves first with clay, or gypsum, that they might not be recognised. Nonnus shows, in several places, that down to his time the celebrants of the Bacchic mysteries retained this dirty trick. Precisely the same trick prevails in the mysteries of savage peoples. Mr.
"Come, Nonnus," cried the Governor, "make haste; one book will do as well as another. Hand them up here." "It must be with his own hands, please your Excellency," said Apollo. "Then," cried the Governor, pitching to the poet the first scroll brought to him, "the thirteenth book. Who cares about the thirteenth book? Pop it in!"
At this point in the reading, the daughter's hand slipped from the back of the chair and met her father's, which he had that moment uplifted; but she had not looked round, and was going on, though with a voice a little altered by some suppressed feeling, to read the Greek quotation from Nonnus, when the old man said "Stay, Romola; reach me my own copy of Nonnus.
The guards referred to are the mythical Curetes who danced a war-dance round the infant Dionysus, as they are said to have done round the infant Zeus. Very noteworthy is the legend, recorded both by Nonnus and Firmicus, that in his infancy Dionysus occupied for a short time the throne of his father Zeus. So Proclus tells us that "Dionysus was the last king of the gods appointed by Zeus.
"Well," rejoined the Governor, "what say you to the twenty-second?" "With my Hamadryad! I can never give up my Hamadryad!" "Then," said the Governor, contemptuously hurling the whole set in the direction of Nonnus, "burn which you will, only burn!" The wretched poet sat among his scrolls looking for a victim. All his forty-eight children were equally dear to his parental heart.
Elton contributed many translations from Greek and Latin authors; from the minor poems of Homer, from Catullus, Nonnus, Propertius, &c. Messrs. Hartley Coleridge, John Clare, Cornelius Webb, Bernard Barton, and others sent poems; generally with the indicating name.
For Lucretius had limed the wings of his swift spirit in the dregs of the sensible world; and Virgil, with a modesty that ill became his genius, had affected the fame of an imitator, even whilst he created anew all that he copied; and none among the flock of mock-birds, though their notes were sweet, Apollonius Rhodius, Quintus Calaber, Nonnus, Lucan, Statius, or Claudian, have sought even to fulfil a single condition of epic truth.
"I must see it," persisted Apollo; and Nonnus reluctantly disinterred his scroll from under the big dictionary, and handed it up, trembling like a schoolboy who anticipates a castigation for a bad exercise. "What trash have we here?" cried Phoebus "If it isn't the beginning of the Gospel of John! Thy impiety is worse than thy poetry!" Apollo cast the scroll indignantly to the ground.
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