Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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... Homer , who revealed that Ennius ' soul had traversed five stages , passing in due succession from a peacock to Euphorbus , 10 to Homer and to Pythagoras before lodging finally in Quintus Ennius . Porphyrion ratifies this by observing ...
... Homer , who revealed that Ennius ' soul had traversed five stages , passing in due succession from a peacock to Euphorbus , 10 to Homer and to Pythagoras before lodging finally in Quintus Ennius . Porphyrion ratifies this by observing ...
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... Homer uprose before him and began to shed salt tears and to unfold in words the nature of things . ) 14 The one mystery in the Ennius passage is Homer's tears . Why does he weep ? Doubtless , however , the question would be resolved ...
... Homer uprose before him and began to shed salt tears and to unfold in words the nature of things . ) 14 The one mystery in the Ennius passage is Homer's tears . Why does he weep ? Doubtless , however , the question would be resolved ...
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... Homer ascribes to Hercules , would as shades hover round the Styx and the Mourning Fields , and as souls be passing ... Homer conversing with the soul of Homer ( Ennius ) ? E * purification . This second process may have gone on ...
... Homer ascribes to Hercules , would as shades hover round the Styx and the Mourning Fields , and as souls be passing ... Homer conversing with the soul of Homer ( Ennius ) ? E * purification . This second process may have gone on ...
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