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A study of the evidence shows that Prudentius ' methods of employing Vergilian sources in the longer passages are much ... In one passage of three consecutive lines ( C. S. 2 , 53-55 ) Prudentius closely imitates three consecutive lines ...
A study of the evidence shows that Prudentius ' methods of employing Vergilian sources in the longer passages are much ... In one passage of three consecutive lines ( C. S. 2 , 53-55 ) Prudentius closely imitates three consecutive lines ...
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Especially suggestive of Vergil as a possible source is the passage nec tremulis , cum bella vocant , capit arma lacertis ( C. S. 2 , 642 ) where the idea of " seizing weapons with trembling arms ” is reminiscent of Priam " vainly ...
Especially suggestive of Vergil as a possible source is the passage nec tremulis , cum bella vocant , capit arma lacertis ( C. S. 2 , 642 ) where the idea of " seizing weapons with trembling arms ” is reminiscent of Priam " vainly ...
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This part of his passage may have been suggested by Vergil's sueti / quadripes et frena iugo concordia ferre ( Aen . 3 , 541 sq . ) . The steeds , Prudentius continues , had not learned obedience by being confined in stalls ( stabulis ) ...
This part of his passage may have been suggested by Vergil's sueti / quadripes et frena iugo concordia ferre ( Aen . 3 , 541 sq . ) . The steeds , Prudentius continues , had not learned obedience by being confined in stalls ( stabulis ) ...
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| Title | Thasci Caecili Cypriani De Mortalitate: A Commentary, with an Introduction and Translation Cath. Univ. America, Washington Volume 36 of Patristic studies Volume 36 of The Catholic University of America. Patristic studies. vol. XXXVI |
| Author | Mary Louise Hannan |
| Editor | Mary Louise Hannan |
| Translated by | Mary Louise Hannan |
| Publisher | Catholic University of America, 1933 |
| Length | 103 pages |
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