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To such artistic embellishments we have a reference in the Sixth Aeneid , where Virgil dwells at length upon the sculptured scenes on the doors of Apollo's temple at Cumae , and in the First Book , where he describes the sculptures of ...
To such artistic embellishments we have a reference in the Sixth Aeneid , where Virgil dwells at length upon the sculptured scenes on the doors of Apollo's temple at Cumae , and in the First Book , where he describes the sculptures of ...
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505. foribus divae : at the door of the goddess ( i.e. of her shrine ) , not the outer doors of the temple , but the doors of the inner cella , which enclosed the image of the goddess . media testu- dine templi : beneath the temple's ...
505. foribus divae : at the door of the goddess ( i.e. of her shrine ) , not the outer doors of the temple , but the doors of the inner cella , which enclosed the image of the goddess . media testu- dine templi : beneath the temple's ...
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Diana was always closely associated with Apollo , and her statue stood beside his in this temple . 70. festos dies : the Ludi Apollinares were instituted in B.C. 212 , but the Roman reader of these lines must have thought rather of the ...
Diana was always closely associated with Apollo , and her statue stood beside his in this temple . 70. festos dies : the Ludi Apollinares were instituted in B.C. 212 , but the Roman reader of these lines must have thought rather of the ...
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