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PERVIGILIUMI VENERIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PERVIGILIUMI VENERIS , the See also:

VIGIL (Lat. vigilia, "watch ")

Vigil of See also:

VENUS

Venus, a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short Latin poem. The author, date, and See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of See also:

composition are unknown. The poem probably belongs to the 2nd or 3rd See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century A.D. An See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article signed L. Raquettius in the Classical See also:

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review (May 1905) assigns it to Sidonius See also:

Apollinaris (5th cent.) It was written professedly in See also:

early See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring on the See also:

EVE

eve of a three-nights' festival of Venus (probably See also:

APRIL

April 1-3). It describes in poetical See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language the See also:

ANNUAL

annual awakening of the See also:

VEGETABLE

vegetable and See also:

animal See also:

WORLD

world through the goddess. It consists of ninety-three verses in See also:

TROCHAIC (from Gr. rpoxalos, rpoxaixos; Lat. trochaeus)

trochaic septenarii, and is divided into strophes of unequal length by the refrain: Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quique amavit eras amet." Pervigilium was the See also:

TERM

term for a nocturnal festival in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of some divinity, especially See also:

Bona Dea. Editio princeps (1577) ; See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

EDITIONS

editions by F. See also:

BUCHELER, FRANZ (1837–1908)

Bucheler (1859), A. Riese, in Anthologia See also:

LATINA, VIA

latina (1869), E. Behrens in Unedierte lateinische Gedichte (1877); S. G.

See also:

Owen (with See also:

CATULLUS, GAIUS VALERIUS (?84-J4 B.C.)

Catullus, 1893). There are See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations into See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse by See also:

Thomas See also:

Stanley (1651) and Thomas See also:

Parnell, author of The See also:

HERMIT

Hermit; on the See also:

TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text see J. W. Mackail in See also:

Journal of See also:

PHILOLOGY

Philology (1888), vol. xvii.

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