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... Greek and Latin authors underwent critical assessment ; the indiscriminate reading of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was at an end . But the application of the adjective ' Silver ' as opposed to ' Golden ' for the high ...
... Greek and Latin authors underwent critical assessment ; the indiscriminate reading of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was at an end . But the application of the adjective ' Silver ' as opposed to ' Golden ' for the high ...
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... Greeks of the Hellenistic period had developed the notion of a king as a god and contemporary Greek poets treated Augustus , Tiberius , Gaius or Nero as gods equal in status to Zeus . This idea was taken up by Virgil in Georgics 1.24-42 ...
... Greeks of the Hellenistic period had developed the notion of a king as a god and contemporary Greek poets treated Augustus , Tiberius , Gaius or Nero as gods equal in status to Zeus . This idea was taken up by Virgil in Georgics 1.24-42 ...
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... Greek accusative ) , the other half the north wind ' . ... : 544-545 orbe quoque ' also , the centre of his orb was hollowed ( exhaustus equivalent to exesa ( 547 below ) of the moon ) and he set weak ( i.e. dim ) , having allowed , his ...
... Greek accusative ) , the other half the north wind ' . ... : 544-545 orbe quoque ' also , the centre of his orb was hollowed ( exhaustus equivalent to exesa ( 547 below ) of the moon ) and he set weak ( i.e. dim ) , having allowed , his ...
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