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... appears in the single contemptuous notice of Calvus and Catullus in the Satires of Horace : - Quos neque pulcher Hermogenes unquam legit , neque simius iste Nil praeter Calvum et doctus cantare Catullum * . But it is rather in their ...
... appears in the single contemptuous notice of Calvus and Catullus in the Satires of Horace : - Quos neque pulcher Hermogenes unquam legit , neque simius iste Nil praeter Calvum et doctus cantare Catullum * . But it is rather in their ...
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... appear at first sight , the points of difference between them must be much more numerous than those of agreement ; and , though outward conditions have a modifying influence upon national temperament and individual genius , yet these ...
... appear at first sight , the points of difference between them must be much more numerous than those of agreement ; and , though outward conditions have a modifying influence upon national temperament and individual genius , yet these ...
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... appears in the literature and the historical monuments of the Augustan Age as the Deifica- tion of the Emperors . In the pages of Tacitus the worship of the Emperor appears as an established ' cultus , ' as the symbol and the instrument ...
... appears in the literature and the historical monuments of the Augustan Age as the Deifica- tion of the Emperors . In the pages of Tacitus the worship of the Emperor appears as an established ' cultus , ' as the symbol and the instrument ...
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... the imaginary beings of which it was composed . Horace and Virgil appear to stand at opposite extremes of incredulity 1 Cp . infra , chap . vi . VOL . I. C and faith . Horace , in his Odes , accepts GENERAL INTRODUCTION . 17.
... the imaginary beings of which it was composed . Horace and Virgil appear to stand at opposite extremes of incredulity 1 Cp . infra , chap . vi . VOL . I. C and faith . Horace , in his Odes , accepts GENERAL INTRODUCTION . 17.
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... appear to have a real existence , as manifesta- tions of the divine energy , revealed in the religious tradi- tions which ... appears very near the actual world of experience , seems sincerely to believe in the delegation of supernatural ...
... appear to have a real existence , as manifesta- tions of the divine energy , revealed in the religious tradi- tions which ... appears very near the actual world of experience , seems sincerely to believe in the delegation of supernatural ...
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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.
Page 239 - Tam multae scelerum facies; non ullus aratro Dignus honos; squalent abductis arva colonis, Et curvae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem. Hinc movet Euphrates, illinc Germania bellum ; Vicinae ruptis inter se legibus urbes 510 Arma ferunt ; saevit toto Mars impius orbe : Ut cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae, Addunt in spatia, et frustra retinacula tendens Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas.
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.