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... usually wear a plume of horse - hair ( kvvéŋv . . . iππovpw ) . To adorn one's helmet with feathers was an Italian custom ( Polybius vi . 23. 12 ) , originally Samnite ( cf. E. T. Salmon , Samnium and the Samnites [ C.U.P. , 1967 ] , pp ...
... usually wear a plume of horse - hair ( kvvéŋv . . . iππovpw ) . To adorn one's helmet with feathers was an Italian custom ( Polybius vi . 23. 12 ) , originally Samnite ( cf. E. T. Salmon , Samnium and the Samnites [ C.U.P. , 1967 ] , pp ...
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... usually attributed his inspiration to the jaw- bone of a snake rather than a fish's backbone ( e.g. Apollodorus iii . 15. 8 ) . For such invention by observing Nature compare Pliny , N.H. vii . 194 ' Gellio ( Annales , fr . 4 Peter ) ...
... usually attributed his inspiration to the jaw- bone of a snake rather than a fish's backbone ( e.g. Apollodorus iii . 15. 8 ) . For such invention by observing Nature compare Pliny , N.H. vii . 194 ' Gellio ( Annales , fr . 4 Peter ) ...
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... usually appearing as a simile , here in the main stream of the narrative . The highly- coloured personification first of the spirits of barrenness , then of Hunger herself ( 801 ff . ) , recall seventh - century Greek epic , but are ...
... usually appearing as a simile , here in the main stream of the narrative . The highly- coloured personification first of the spirits of barrenness , then of Hunger herself ( 801 ff . ) , recall seventh - century Greek epic , but are ...
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