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Page xvi
... Book ii . V. The Episodes in the Georgics . Purpose of the episodes in Lucretius and in the Georgics Episodes at the end of Books iii . and iv . Episode of the omens accompanying the death of Julius Caesar Episode of the Glory of Italy ...
... Book ii . V. The Episodes in the Georgics . Purpose of the episodes in Lucretius and in the Georgics Episodes at the end of Books iii . and iv . Episode of the omens accompanying the death of Julius Caesar Episode of the Glory of Italy ...
Page xxii
... Book I. may be the Varus of the tenth poem of Catullus . The more famous name of Asinius Pollio also connects the two eras ; but in Catullus he is spoken of , not as a poet , but simply as leporum Disertus puer et facetiarum2 , and in ...
... Book I. may be the Varus of the tenth poem of Catullus . The more famous name of Asinius Pollio also connects the two eras ; but in Catullus he is spoken of , not as a poet , but simply as leporum Disertus puer et facetiarum2 , and in ...
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... books which constitute the literature of any age , to take a general survey of the most important conditions affecting the lives , thoughts , and art of all who lived and wrote in that age . In the Augustan Age these conditions may be ...
... books which constitute the literature of any age , to take a general survey of the most important conditions affecting the lives , thoughts , and art of all who lived and wrote in that age . In the Augustan Age these conditions may be ...
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... books of the Odes of Horace , and the first book of his Epistles , -entitle him to be honoured as among the most enlightened and fortunate of all the patrons of literature . Virgil addresses him in language not only of loyal admiration ...
... books of the Odes of Horace , and the first book of his Epistles , -entitle him to be honoured as among the most enlightened and fortunate of all the patrons of literature . Virgil addresses him in language not only of loyal admiration ...
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... books and works of art became the absorbing interest in their lives . Though in some of the orators and men of letters , e.g. Memmius , as we learn from Cicero , their Greek tastes fostered an affected indifference to their own ...
... books and works of art became the absorbing interest in their lives . Though in some of the orators and men of letters , e.g. Memmius , as we learn from Cicero , their Greek tastes fostered an affected indifference to their own ...
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Page 245 - Hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini, hanc Remus et frater, sic fortis Etruria crevit scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma, septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces.
Page 159 - ... hinc tibi quae semper vicino ab limite saepes Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti saepe levi somnum suadebit inire susurro hinc alta sub rupe canet frondator ad auras nee tamen interea raucae tua cura palumbes nee gemere aeria cessabit turtur ab ulmo.
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Page 159 - PR o mihi tum longae maneat pars ultima vitae, spiritus et, quantum sat erit tua dicere facta : non me carminibus vincet nee Thracius Orpheus, 55 nee Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.