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... PLATO 156-164 HOMER 164-166 99 VIRGIL 166-197 " " 79 HORACE 197-206 99 " " : OVID . 206-228 " " 99 LUCAN 228-242 STATIUS 99 29 243-255 34 99 JUVENAL 255-258 CICERO 99 99 258-273 33 LIVY . 273-278 OROSIUS 279-282 29 BOETHIUS 282-288 ...
... PLATO 156-164 HOMER 164-166 99 VIRGIL 166-197 " " 79 HORACE 197-206 99 " " : OVID . 206-228 " " 99 LUCAN 228-242 STATIUS 99 29 243-255 34 99 JUVENAL 255-258 CICERO 99 99 258-273 33 LIVY . 273-278 OROSIUS 279-282 29 BOETHIUS 282-288 ...
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... Plato , Homer , Juvenal , Seneca , Ptolemy , Aesop and St. Augustine , if we may be allowed to extend the term ' Classical authors ' so as to embrace all those mentioned . Further , we suspect on two or three occasions a possible ...
... Plato , Homer , Juvenal , Seneca , Ptolemy , Aesop and St. Augustine , if we may be allowed to extend the term ' Classical authors ' so as to embrace all those mentioned . Further , we suspect on two or three occasions a possible ...
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... Plato , no work of his is ever directly quoted , or even named , except the Timaeus . The reason for this is found in the fact , that though that dialogue was translated by Chalcidius in about the fifth century , very long before a ...
... Plato , no work of his is ever directly quoted , or even named , except the Timaeus . The reason for this is found in the fact , that though that dialogue was translated by Chalcidius in about the fifth century , very long before a ...
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... Plato and others , that the earth stands fixed and immoveable to all eternity . ' He adds that he will not repeat any of his arguments , because it is It is to be noticed that this occurs in a dialogue with Statius , whom Dante feigns a ...
... Plato and others , that the earth stands fixed and immoveable to all eternity . ' He adds that he will not repeat any of his arguments , because it is It is to be noticed that this occurs in a dialogue with Statius , whom Dante feigns a ...
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... Plato . Only the Timaeus , as we have already stated , had been translated in Dante's time , and this is the only dialogue which Dante quotes by name . When he cites opinions of Plato which seem to imply a knowledge of other Dialogues ...
... Plato . Only the Timaeus , as we have already stated , had been translated in Dante's time , and this is the only dialogue which Dante quotes by name . When he cites opinions of Plato which seem to imply a knowledge of other Dialogues ...
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Aeneas Aeneid Albertus Magnus allusion Aquinas Aristotle Aristotle's attributed Augustine authority Boethius Brunetto Latini certainly Chalcidius Cicero citation cited Coelo Compare context Conv Convito copyist cose curious Dante Dante's derived described dice Divina Commedia doubt Edition Epistles especially Ethics evidently explained expression familiar to Dante further Giuliani Greek Homer Horace illustration imitation interpretation Jourdain Juvenal language Latin latter lines Livy Lucan mentioned Meteor Nature noticed observed occurs Orosius Ovid passage perhaps Phars Plato Poetica probably Procne Purg Purgatory quae quam quod quotation quoted reading reference resemblance says Scart Scartazzini Scripture seems seqq similar Statius suggested supra Textual Criticism Theb Timaeus Translatio translation viii Virgil Virgilian vita Vulg Vulgate words writers xxii xxviii γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τὰ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῦ τῶν
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