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SEMELE. Here let her wander, and give birth to scorn! What is't to me? My Jupiter protects My every hair, what harm can Juno do? But now, enough of this, my Beroe! Zeus must appear to-day in all his glory; And if Saturnia should on that account Find out the path to Orcus JUNO. From Sidon to Athens the trumpet of fame Shall ring with no other but Semele's name!
The distant plains of Italy surveys, And, hands and voice to heaven directed, says Almighty Jove and you, Saturnia, found, Safe by my arms, oft with my triumph's crown'd. Witness these arms unwillingly I wear, Unwillingly I come to wage this war, Compell'd by injuries too great to bear. Banisht my country, while I make the flood, That laves the Rhine, run purple all with blood.
The so-called gate at the steepest part of the Capitoline Mount, which is known by the name of Janualis or Saturnia, or the "open," and which had to stand always open in times of war, evidently had merely a religious significance, and never was a real gate. Corp. Inscr.
It is well known that if a virgin Lasiocampa quercus or Saturnia carpini be exposed in a cage, vast numbers of males collect round her, and if confined in a room will even come down the chimney to her. Mr. Doubleday believes that he has seen from fifty to a hundred males of both these species attracted in the course of a single day by a female in confinement. In the Isle of Wight Mr.
It may be as well to add, that, on wishing Lord Vargrave good-night, Mr. Winsley whispered in his ear, "Your lordship's friend, Lord Staunch, need be under no apprehension, we are all right!" THIS is the house, sir. Love's Pilgrimage, Act iv, sc. 2. Redeunt Saturnia regna.* VIRGIL. * "A former state of things returns."
Redeunt Saturnia regna! The reign of blood, according to Quiroga, its chief evangelist, was approaching its termination.
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