The Roman Poets of the RepublicAn examination of the poets of the Roman Republic. |
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Accius admiration Aeneas Aeneid ancient Annals appears atoms atque attributed Augustan Aulus Gellius beauty Catullus century B.C. character characteristics Cicero comedy composition criticism death drama early Roman Empedocles Ennius epic Epicureanism Epicurus Euhemerus Euripides expression familiar favour feeling force fragments Gellius genius Greece Greek Homer honour Horace human imagination imitated impression influence interest Italian language later Latin Latin language lines literary living Livius Andronicus Lucilius Lucretius metre mind modern moral Naevius Nature neque omnia orator original outward Pacuvius passage passion philosophy Plautus plays pleasure poem poetical poetry political popular probably prose Pseudolus Punic quae quam quod quoted recognised represented Republic Roman literature Roman poets Roman tragedy Rome satire satura Scipio Second Punic War seems sense sentiment shows Sophocles speech spirit strong style sympathy taste Terence things thought tone tragic verse Virgil words writers written
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Page 296 - ... floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant, omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta, aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.
Page 295 - Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Page 443 - Si qua recordanti benefacta priora voluptas Est homini, cum se cogitat esse pium, Nee sanctam violasse fidem nee foedere in ullo Divum ad fallendos numine abusum homines, Multa parata manent in longa aetate, Catulle, 5 Ex hoc ingrato gaudia amore tibi.
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Page 345 - ... augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur, inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
Page 318 - ... non modo enim ratio ruat omnis, vita quoque ipsa concidat extemplo, nisi credere sensibus ausis praecipitisque locos vitare et cetera quae sint in genere hoc fugienda, sequi contraria quae sint.
Page 60 - Equidem cum audio socrum meam Laeliam — facilius enim mulieres incorruptam antiquitatem conservant, quod multorum sermonis expertes ea tenent semper quae prima didicerunt...
Page 403 - ... virum vi excitur pedibus sonitus clamoreque montes icti reiectant voces ad sidera mundi et circumvolitant equites mediosque repente tramittunt valido quatientes impete campos. 330 et tamen est quidam locus altis montibus unde stare videntur et in campis consistere fulgor.
Page 243 - Numae, tremit has, hie omnia ponit ; Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia ahena Vivere, et esse homines; et sic isti omnia ficta Vera putant, credunt signis cor inesse in ahenis; Pergula pictorum, veri nihil, omnia ficta.1 His attitude to philosophy, like his attitude to superstitious terrors, was not unlike that of Horace. We find mention in his fragments of the
Page 195 - Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus. Comoedia luget, Scaena est deserta, dein Risus, Ludus locusque Et Numeri innumeri simul omnes conlacrimarunt.