In part in order to heighten his praise of Aldus as the ideal printer, Erasmus noted by contrast that most printers, given the absence of regulations, “fill the world with pamphlets and books [that are] . . . foolish, ignorant, malig-nant, libellous, mad, impious and subversive; and such is the flood that even

So worried have I become about my numbers and long-term job security that I have lately begun to overhear myself talking to students with the same deferential manner as a RadioShack manager.

As John Dickerson recently put it on Slate, describing his attempt to annotate books on an iPad: “It’s like eating candy through a wrapper.”

rustling like palmetto fronds.

with a tiny body which was red and shriveled like an old man's.

collapse back onto the bed like an old worn-out doll.

heir roots and tearing them out of the earth like a hawk at the entrails

Authorship of the Ciris R. B. Steele The American Journal of Philology 1930 DOI: 10.2307/289863 The last four lines of the Ciris (538-41) are also in the Georgics (1, 406-9), just as four lines in Georg. 4, 162 ff. are carried over to the bee-simile in Aeneid 1, 430 ff., and just as many a shorter piece of the narrative is given more than once, in the same or in changed form.

Apollonius Called the Rhodian Moses Hadas The Classical Weekly 1932 DOI: 10.2307/4339137 left Pagasae and the throngs of feminine admirers. On that occasion he is likened to Apollo striding toward Delos (1.307-311). Vergil copies the simile in his description of Aeneas (Aeneid 4.143-I45): Qualis ubi hibernam Lyciam Xanthique fluenta deserit ac Delum maternam invisit Apollo instauratque choros.... pon that passage Henry remarks29: "Not only is the hero of the Aeneid modelled after the hero of the Argonautics (see Rem. on Aen. 3.1O), but he is made the subject of the selfsame comparisons. .."

"SEDES APIBUS": FROM THE "GEORGICS" TO THE "AENEID" Eleanor Winsor Leach Vergilius (1959-) 1977 DOI: 10.2307/41591766