Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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... Latin are already recognisably Roman in spirit and accent . The first Roman writers whose names we know and whose work still survives in fragments were translators or adapters of the greatest Greek poets . The beginner of the line of ...
... Latin are already recognisably Roman in spirit and accent . The first Roman writers whose names we know and whose work still survives in fragments were translators or adapters of the greatest Greek poets . The beginner of the line of ...
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... Latin , indicating respectively such different things as the trumpeting of an elephant , the bleating of a sheep , stammering , and babbling , are like in con- veying the suggestion of indistinct and unintelligible sounds . A Cápagos ...
... Latin , indicating respectively such different things as the trumpeting of an elephant , the bleating of a sheep , stammering , and babbling , are like in con- veying the suggestion of indistinct and unintelligible sounds . A Cápagos ...
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... Latin an example of the longer kind , the epos proper , survives in the elaborate Thebaid of Statius , a poet of repute in the first century of our era . His epic in twelve books dealing with the sanguinary legend of Thebes , the ...
... Latin an example of the longer kind , the epos proper , survives in the elaborate Thebaid of Statius , a poet of repute in the first century of our era . His epic in twelve books dealing with the sanguinary legend of Thebes , the ...
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