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Vikings, 23-22Minnesota (9-7)03713—23NY Giants (10-5-1)01903—22Date—Dec. 27. Att—77,497. Time—3:08.1st Quarter: NY—Brad Daluiso 43-yd FG, 6:35; NY—Daluiso 22-yd FG, 2:20.2nd Quarter: NY—Aaron…Brewer's: Æschylus
Ees′-ke-lus the most sublime of the Greek tragic poets. He wrote 90 plays, only 7 of which are now extant. Æschylus was killed by a tortoise thrown by an eagle (to break the shell) against…Brewer's: Alcaic Verse
Alcaïcs. A Greek and Latin metre, so called from Alcoes, a lyric poet, who invented it. Each line is divided into two parts. The first two lines of each stanza of the ninth ode of Horace…Brewer's: Bathos
[Greek, bathos, depth]. A ludicrous descent from grandiloquence to commonplace. A literary mermaid. Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit ... ut turpiter atrum Desinat in…Brewer's: Better
My better half. A jocose way of saying my wife. As the twain are one, each is half. Horace calls his friend animæ dimidium meæ. (1 Odes iii. 8.) To be better than his word. To do more…Brewer's: Asclepiadics
or Asclepiadic Metre. A Greek and Latin verse, so called from Asclepiades, the inventor. Each line is divided into two parts. The first ode of Horace is Asclepiadic. The first and last two…Brewer's: Augustan Age
The best literary period of a nation; so called from Augustus, the Emperor of Rome, the most palmy time of Latin literature. Horace, Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus, Virgil, etc., flourished in…Brewer's: Man of Wax
A model man; like one fashioned in wax. Horace speaks of the “waxen arms of Telephus,” meaning model arms, or of perfect shape and colour; and the nurse says of Romeo, “Why, he's a man of…Brewer's: Mareotic Luxury
The Arva Mareotica mentioned by Ovid (Metamorphoses, ix. 73) produced the white grapes, from which was made the favourite beverage of Cleopatra, and mention of which is made both by Horace…Brewer's: Palinode
(3 syl.). A song or discourse recanting a previous one. A good specimen of the palinode is Horace, book i. ode 16, translated by Swift. Watts has a palinode in which he retracts the praise…Trending
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