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... kind of sentiment which suggested to Virgil such lines as Tu regere imperio populos , Romane , memento , and inspired the national Odes of Horace . The majesty of the State , moreover , impressed the imagination more immediately and ...
... kind of sentiment which suggested to Virgil such lines as Tu regere imperio populos , Romane , memento , and inspired the national Odes of Horace . The majesty of the State , moreover , impressed the imagination more immediately and ...
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... kind of merit . ' Among the liberal traits in the character of Maecenas , as painted by Horace , the indifference to distinctions of birth is specially marked : - Cum referre negas quali sit quisque parente Natus , dum ingenuus1 . : The ...
... kind of merit . ' Among the liberal traits in the character of Maecenas , as painted by Horace , the indifference to distinctions of birth is specially marked : - Cum referre negas quali sit quisque parente Natus , dum ingenuus1 . : The ...
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... kind of plunder , did little to distribute wealth more generally , or to limit luxurious living . The appropriation during the Civil Wars of the sacred treasures long accumulated in the temples of the gods , and the great stimulus given ...
... kind of plunder , did little to distribute wealth more generally , or to limit luxurious living . The appropriation during the Civil Wars of the sacred treasures long accumulated in the temples of the gods , and the great stimulus given ...
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... poetry of Greece as a kind of quarry for their own rude workmanship . The age of Laelius had imbibed much of the humanity and wisdom of Greek speculation . But it was not till the age of Cicero and GENERAL INTRODUCTION . 39.
... poetry of Greece as a kind of quarry for their own rude workmanship . The age of Laelius had imbibed much of the humanity and wisdom of Greek speculation . But it was not till the age of Cicero and GENERAL INTRODUCTION . 39.
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... kind of learning . Though the greatest poets of the Augustan Age drew much of their inspiration from the older and nobler sources of Greek genius , especially from Homer and the early lyric poets , yet the period of Greek literature ...
... kind of learning . Though the greatest poets of the Augustan Age drew much of their inspiration from the older and nobler sources of Greek genius , especially from Homer and the early lyric poets , yet the period of Greek literature ...
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