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Page 60
... Carthaginian army once more enjoys the favour of the gods , since ex inconsulto senatus Q.Fabius Maximus has resigned as dictator , urges him to reach , as in the carmen Marcianum , the plain of Apulia where he may achieve a great ...
... Carthaginian army once more enjoys the favour of the gods , since ex inconsulto senatus Q.Fabius Maximus has resigned as dictator , urges him to reach , as in the carmen Marcianum , the plain of Apulia where he may achieve a great ...
Page 70
... Carthaginian troops , clearly not just influenced , as in Livy101 , by mere natural circum- stances , but due either to an intimate bias on the part of the river god , or to an order from the goddess , depending on whether we prefer the ...
... Carthaginian troops , clearly not just influenced , as in Livy101 , by mere natural circum- stances , but due either to an intimate bias on the part of the river god , or to an order from the goddess , depending on whether we prefer the ...
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... Carthaginian soldiers into its eddies is at once an implicit commentary on the crossing of Gaul and an anticipation of the new , imminent as- sault on nature the Carthaginians are about to undertake , the passage of the Alps . Although ...
... Carthaginian soldiers into its eddies is at once an implicit commentary on the crossing of Gaul and an anticipation of the new , imminent as- sault on nature the Carthaginians are about to undertake , the passage of the Alps . Although ...
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Aeneas Aeneid Alps amnem amnis Anna and Hannibal Anna Perenna Anna's antiquarian antithesis aquas archaeology army atque battle battle of Cannae Battus bellum Cannae Carthage Carthaginian causa cult cursu defeat dextra Dido Didone divinities elements Ennius ensem epic epigraph episode epos Eridanus fact Fasti Flavian poet germana goddess gurgite haec Hannibal Hannibal's hero Homeric hostility hydronym illa inter Iuno Juno Latin Latium Lavinium lines linked literary litora mache parapotamios magna mihi motif multa myth narrative nature Nevius Numicius numina nunc nymph Ofanto Ovid Ovid's poem Punica quae quam quid reader regarding rerum ripas river Roma Roman Rome and Carthage sanguine scene Scipio Second Punic Second Punic War Seneca's Silio Silius Italicus sister sororis stagna story styleme takes tellus terque terra theme tibi tradition Trebia Trojan unda undis Virgil virum visa waters writer καὶ
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Classical Constructions: Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and ... S. J. Heyworth No preview available - 2007 |
Flavian Poetry Ruurd R. Nauta,Harm-Jan van Dam,Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars No preview available - 2006 |