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Page xxi
... Roman Language had not a variety of Dialects , like the Greek , it would be in vain to think of giving his Bucolicks an air of Rufticity , like thofe of Theocritus . Nor . would it have been natural , if he could have fuc- ceeded in the ...
... Roman Language had not a variety of Dialects , like the Greek , it would be in vain to think of giving his Bucolicks an air of Rufticity , like thofe of Theocritus . Nor . would it have been natural , if he could have fuc- ceeded in the ...
Page xxix
... Romans , in- ftead of Publius Virgilius Maro . Probus fays he was a countryman ; Donatus tells us , that fome re- port him to have been a potter ; though many are of opinion that he was at first a hired servant of one Magus or Magius ...
... Romans , in- ftead of Publius Virgilius Maro . Probus fays he was a countryman ; Donatus tells us , that fome re- port him to have been a potter ; though many are of opinion that he was at first a hired servant of one Magus or Magius ...
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... Romans , was in the feventeenth Rome 700 . 701 . year ( i ) . ( e ) Donatus tells us fome idle ftories of prodigies attend ing the birth of Virgil . His mother , when he was with child of him , dreamed the was delivered of a branch of a ...
... Romans , was in the feventeenth Rome 700 . 701 . year ( i ) . ( e ) Donatus tells us fome idle ftories of prodigies attend ing the birth of Virgil . His mother , when he was with child of him , dreamed the was delivered of a branch of a ...
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... Roman and Greek literature , Phyfick and Mathematicks , before he went to Rome ( 1 ) . It is not eafy to determine , at what time " t Year of time he returned to the place of his. 86 66 " ad feptimum annum , Cre- " monae egit . " Jofeph ...
... Roman and Greek literature , Phyfick and Mathematicks , before he went to Rome ( 1 ) . It is not eafy to determine , at what time " t Year of time he returned to the place of his. 86 66 " ad feptimum annum , Cre- " monae egit . " Jofeph ...
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... Roman affairs were in the greatest confufion imaginable . Many different parties were formed ; and his friends were ... Romans , whom they had ' moft fhamefully defeated , and flain Craffus their chief commander . Whilft he was ...
... Roman affairs were in the greatest confufion imaginable . Many different parties were formed ; and his friends were ... Romans , whom they had ' moft fhamefully defeated , and flain Craffus their chief commander . Whilft he was ...
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