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... immediately preceding the battle of Pharsalia , that so few of the poets eminent in that generation lived on into the new era . The insig- nificant name of Helvius Cinna is almost the only poetic link between the age of Catullus and the ...
... immediately preceding the battle of Pharsalia , that so few of the poets eminent in that generation lived on into the new era . The insig- nificant name of Helvius Cinna is almost the only poetic link between the age of Catullus and the ...
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... immediately preceding it , and from still older native sources . The thought of Lucretius acted upon the mind of Virgil through the force both of sympathy and antagonism , as a strong original nature acts upon one which is at once ...
... immediately preceding it , and from still older native sources . The thought of Lucretius acted upon the mind of Virgil through the force both of sympathy and antagonism , as a strong original nature acts upon one which is at once ...
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... immediately preceding it , with the exception of Horace and Lucretius , acknowledged , in the form as well as the materials of their art , the influence of this latest development of Greek poetry . The nature and amount of the debt ...
... immediately preceding it , with the exception of Horace and Lucretius , acknowledged , in the form as well as the materials of their art , the influence of this latest development of Greek poetry . The nature and amount of the debt ...
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... immediately preceding it , and from still older native sources . The thought of Lucretius acted upon the mind of Virgil through the force both of sympathy and antagonism , as a strong original nature acts upon one which is at once ...
... immediately preceding it , and from still older native sources . The thought of Lucretius acted upon the mind of Virgil through the force both of sympathy and antagonism , as a strong original nature acts upon one which is at once ...
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... immediately preceding it , with the exception of Horace and Lucretius , acknowledged , in the form as well as the materials of their art , the influence of this latest development of Greek poetry . The nature and amount of the debt ...
... immediately preceding it , with the exception of Horace and Lucretius , acknowledged , in the form as well as the materials of their art , the influence of this latest development of Greek poetry . The nature and amount of the debt ...
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