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... 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 commemorative 12 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
... 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 commemorative 12 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
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... passage as that referred to above , - Ordinem Rectum evaganti fraena licentiae Iniecit , amovitque culpas . The licence of the previous age in speculation , as in life , had provoked a moral and religious reaction . The idea of a return ...
... passage as that referred to above , - Ordinem Rectum evaganti fraena licentiae Iniecit , amovitque culpas . The licence of the previous age in speculation , as in life , had provoked a moral and religious reaction . The idea of a return ...
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... passage Horace speaks of the Roman as worshipping the ' numen ' of Caesar along with the Lares : - uti Graecia Castoris , Et magni memor Herculis 3 . In all these passages the idea implied is that , as great services to the human race ...
... passage Horace speaks of the Roman as worshipping the ' numen ' of Caesar along with the Lares : - uti Graecia Castoris , Et magni memor Herculis 3 . In all these passages the idea implied is that , as great services to the human race ...
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... passages in the Odes and familiar writings of Horace . Belonging by descent to the com- paratively obscure families of the Octavii and Atii , Augustus attached peculiar importance to the glories of the Julian line , which he inherited ...
... passages in the Odes and familiar writings of Horace . Belonging by descent to the com- paratively obscure families of the Octavii and Atii , Augustus attached peculiar importance to the glories of the Julian line , which he inherited ...
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... passages as the famous simile near the beginning of the Aeneid , Ac veluti magno in populo cum saepe coorta est Seditio , saevitque animis ignobile vulgus , and in his representation of the good King Ancus ' of Ennius and Lucretius ...
... passages as the famous simile near the beginning of the Aeneid , Ac veluti magno in populo cum saepe coorta est Seditio , saevitque animis ignobile vulgus , and in his representation of the good King Ancus ' of Ennius and Lucretius ...
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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.