04-06-2018, 02:29 PM
Thanks Marco!
"The green leaves" are surely laurels of fame. (Remember the book is called "Laurels of Pallas").
Black cheeks make little sense for poets, unless they are of negroid race, which is seemingly out of place here. My Latin disctionary says "gena" can also mean "eye", if that's appropriate, that would be a better fit to the context. On the other hand, the verse is about the exact figure, so how can one notice if the eyes here are black or otherwise?
This line is really hard to interpret.
Little as I understand in heraldry, I think this figure cannot stand for a coat of arms, perhaps it's just sort of an emblem?
"The green leaves" are surely laurels of fame. (Remember the book is called "Laurels of Pallas").
Black cheeks make little sense for poets, unless they are of negroid race, which is seemingly out of place here. My Latin disctionary says "gena" can also mean "eye", if that's appropriate, that would be a better fit to the context. On the other hand, the verse is about the exact figure, so how can one notice if the eyes here are black or otherwise?
This line is really hard to interpret.Little as I understand in heraldry, I think this figure cannot stand for a coat of arms, perhaps it's just sort of an emblem?