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... Rome which Aeneas receives in the underworld , when he emerges by the gate of false dreams , Servius says that poetically the sense is clear . Virgil wants it to be understood that everything he has said is false . ' Poetice apertus est ...
... Rome which Aeneas receives in the underworld , when he emerges by the gate of false dreams , Servius says that poetically the sense is clear . Virgil wants it to be understood that everything he has said is false . ' Poetice apertus est ...
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... Rome in a deputation , Augustus , being an initiate , agreed to hear them behind closed doors . So the branch is not only a transparent allusion to the mysteries of Dis and Persephone . It is also an oblique tribute to Augustus . As ...
... Rome in a deputation , Augustus , being an initiate , agreed to hear them behind closed doors . So the branch is not only a transparent allusion to the mysteries of Dis and Persephone . It is also an oblique tribute to Augustus . As ...
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... Rome , he cannot say ' Of course , Aeneas did not really see all those future heroes . What I have been saying is not the truth but a useful lie . ' The poet has many ways of distancing himself from assertions he wishes to make but not ...
... Rome , he cannot say ' Of course , Aeneas did not really see all those future heroes . What I have been saying is not the truth but a useful lie . ' The poet has many ways of distancing himself from assertions he wishes to make but not ...
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