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... Ennius Later annalistic and panegyrical poems New type of Roman epic introduced by Varro Atacinus Type of historical epic rejected in the maturity of Roman art CHAPTER IX . FORM AND SUBJECT OF THE AENEID . I. Purpose of the Aeneid and ...
... Ennius Later annalistic and panegyrical poems New type of Roman epic introduced by Varro Atacinus Type of historical epic rejected in the maturity of Roman art CHAPTER IX . FORM AND SUBJECT OF THE AENEID . I. Purpose of the Aeneid and ...
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... Ennius and the censorious spirit of Lucilius reappeared in new forms in the Augustan poetry ; while the more humane and social feelings , and the enjoyment of beauty in Nature and art , fostered by Greek studies , as well as the taste ...
... Ennius and the censorious spirit of Lucilius reappeared in new forms in the Augustan poetry ; while the more humane and social feelings , and the enjoyment of beauty in Nature and art , fostered by Greek studies , as well as the taste ...
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... Ennius and the censorious spirit of Lucilius reappeared in new forms in the Augustan poetry ; while the more humane and social feelings , and the enjoyment of beauty in Nature and art , fostered by Greek studies , as well as the taste ...
... Ennius and the censorious spirit of Lucilius reappeared in new forms in the Augustan poetry ; while the more humane and social feelings , and the enjoyment of beauty in Nature and art , fostered by Greek studies , as well as the taste ...
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... Ennius . 2 In the Ancyraean inscription we find the following passage ( Bergk's reading ) : — ' Legibus novis latis multa revocavi exempla maiorum exolescentia iam ex nostra civitate , ' etc. national Epic , as it was of the national ...
... Ennius . 2 In the Ancyraean inscription we find the following passage ( Bergk's reading ) : — ' Legibus novis latis multa revocavi exempla maiorum exolescentia iam ex nostra civitate , ' etc. national Epic , as it was of the national ...
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... Ennius . But the age witnessed a restoration of the past , not only in its action on the imagination , but in a more direct in-、 fluence on opinion and conduct . Horace says of it , in the same passage as that referred to above ...
... Ennius . But the age witnessed a restoration of the past , not only in its action on the imagination , but in a more direct in-、 fluence on opinion and conduct . Horace says of it , in the same passage as that referred to above ...
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