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... taken hold of the popular mind of Rome . He was not the interpreter of an ancient record , bound to minute and painstaking accuracy ; he was the reviver of an old story , which in its broad features was familiar to all lovers of poetry ...
... taken hold of the popular mind of Rome . He was not the interpreter of an ancient record , bound to minute and painstaking accuracy ; he was the reviver of an old story , which in its broad features was familiar to all lovers of poetry ...
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... similarities of detail are there , doubtless more than I have enumerated or dis- covered but the poem , taken as a whole , does not remind us of the Aeneid , or enable us to understand the form under INTRODUCTION . xxxvii.
... similarities of detail are there , doubtless more than I have enumerated or dis- covered but the poem , taken as a whole , does not remind us of the Aeneid , or enable us to understand the form under INTRODUCTION . xxxvii.
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... taken from the old poet . It must be confessed that the two or three lines quoted by Servius in exemplification of the hints which Naevius gave to Virgil do not suggest the notion of any very close imitation . When Naevius says of the ...
... taken from the old poet . It must be confessed that the two or three lines quoted by Servius in exemplification of the hints which Naevius gave to Virgil do not suggest the notion of any very close imitation . When Naevius says of the ...
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... taken from the first line of the Cyclic poem of the Epigoni , preserved by the Schol . on Aris- toph . Peace 1270 , Nov avе ' ôπλотéрwv av δρῶν ἀρχώμεθα , Μοῦσαι . It is followed by all the other Roman writers of epic poetry , Lucan ...
... taken from the first line of the Cyclic poem of the Epigoni , preserved by the Schol . on Aris- toph . Peace 1270 , Nov avе ' ôπλотéрwv av δρῶν ἀρχώμεθα , Μοῦσαι . It is followed by all the other Roman writers of epic poetry , Lucan ...
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... taken ' vi superum ' as = Big fewv , in spite of heaven . " Vis enim non est , " he says , " nisi cum fit aliquid contra legem , hoc est , contra fatum . " - H . N. ] But there is no authority for such an interpretation . [ Saevae ...
... taken ' vi superum ' as = Big fewv , in spite of heaven . " Vis enim non est , " he says , " nisi cum fit aliquid contra legem , hoc est , contra fatum . " - H . N. ] But there is no authority for such an interpretation . [ Saevae ...
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