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... Latin neoteric poets , even teaching Virgil Greek , according to tradition . But unfortunately only one story is attested for Parthenius ' Metamorphoses , that of Scylla daughter of Nisus . Finally there is a Theodorus , whom Ovid once ...
... Latin neoteric poets , even teaching Virgil Greek , according to tradition . But unfortunately only one story is attested for Parthenius ' Metamorphoses , that of Scylla daughter of Nisus . Finally there is a Theodorus , whom Ovid once ...
Page 80
... Latin epic , too , often has similes from Roman life of the poet's time , e.g. Ennius , Annals 88 ff . W. ( crowds at a race - meeting in the Cir- cus ) , Aen . i . 148–53 ( orator ) . When the main narrative is from Greek mythology ...
... Latin epic , too , often has similes from Roman life of the poet's time , e.g. Ennius , Annals 88 ff . W. ( crowds at a race - meeting in the Cir- cus ) , Aen . i . 148–53 ( orator ) . When the main narrative is from Greek mythology ...
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... Latin ; on epi- taphs see Lattimore , Themes in Greek and Latin Epitaphs , § 23 ; among the rhetoricians Seneca , Suasoriae 7. 14 ; in ordinary speech Petronius , chs . 61 and 69. The wish is normally followed by an imperative , as here ...
... Latin ; on epi- taphs see Lattimore , Themes in Greek and Latin Epitaphs , § 23 ; among the rhetoricians Seneca , Suasoriae 7. 14 ; in ordinary speech Petronius , chs . 61 and 69. The wish is normally followed by an imperative , as here ...
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12th cent Accius Achelous Aetia Althaea ambo Amores Ancaeus Apollodorus Baucis and Philemon boar Boeo Brooks Otis Burman Callimachus Calydonian Catullus Catullus 64 Cicero Ciris Compare corpora Crete Daedalus dixit Ennius episode epithet erat Erysicthon esset Euripides Fairy's Revenge Fasti folk-tale fragment Georgics Greek Hecale Heinsius Hellenistic Hermes heroes Heroides Hesiod Heteroeumena Homer Horace hunc Hunger Hyginus hymn Icarus illa ipse Latin legend Lelex Magnus manus manuscript Medea medio Megara Meleager Meleager's Mestra Metamorphoses mihi Minos modo neoteric Nicander Nisus Nonnus nunc Oeneus Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Parthenius pater Pausanias Perdix perhaps phrase Plan poem poetry probably Propertius pseudo-Hesiod quae quam quod quoque Roman saepe sanguine Scylla Silius simile story sunt tamen terra Theseus tibi tradition transformation Tristia undas unus variant verb viii Virgil word Zeus δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸν