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... Servius , writing at the end of the fourth century A.D. After the stupendous revelation of the future of Rome which Aeneas receives in the underworld , when he emerges by the gate of false dreams , Servius says that poetically the sense ...
... Servius , writing at the end of the fourth century A.D. After the stupendous revelation of the future of Rome which Aeneas receives in the underworld , when he emerges by the gate of false dreams , Servius says that poetically the sense ...
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... Servius on Aeneid 6.136 What Servius says is that after Orestes had killed King Thoas , he fled to Italy and founded a temple near Aricia with a sacred tree ; if any runaway could cut off a branch of the tree , he was entitled to single ...
... Servius on Aeneid 6.136 What Servius says is that after Orestes had killed King Thoas , he fled to Italy and founded a temple near Aricia with a sacred tree ; if any runaway could cut off a branch of the tree , he was entitled to single ...
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... Servius , as we have seen , has a simple answer : ' Poetically the sense is clear : for he wants it to be understood that everything he has said is false . ' But this is clearly wrong . After all , everything he has said is true . All ...
... Servius , as we have seen , has a simple answer : ' Poetically the sense is clear : for he wants it to be understood that everything he has said is false . ' But this is clearly wrong . After all , everything he has said is true . All ...
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