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... ( Metamorphoses 8.631ff . ) shows Callimachean influence and was probably used in turn by the poet of the Moretum . In Paradise Lost 5.308ff . Adam and Eve entertain the archangel Raphael and Ovid was Milton's model . Relevant , too , to ...
... ( Metamorphoses 8.631ff . ) shows Callimachean influence and was probably used in turn by the poet of the Moretum . In Paradise Lost 5.308ff . Adam and Eve entertain the archangel Raphael and Ovid was Milton's model . Relevant , too , to ...
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... ( Metamorphoses 2.316f . ) . Tethys : sea - goddess , wife of Oceanus and mother of the sea- nymphs and river - gods . Pyroenta : one of the four horses of the Sun ( Ovid , Metamorphoses 2.153 ) . 433-434 quin etiam : regularly marking a ...
... ( Metamorphoses 2.316f . ) . Tethys : sea - goddess , wife of Oceanus and mother of the sea- nymphs and river - gods . Pyroenta : one of the four horses of the Sun ( Ovid , Metamorphoses 2.153 ) . 433-434 quin etiam : regularly marking a ...
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... Metamorphoses 6.128 - flores hederis habet intertextos . Linus : the version of the legend current at Argos made him the baby son of Apollo and Psamathe , a local princess , who exposed him ; he was killed by hounds , and the city ...
... Metamorphoses 6.128 - flores hederis habet intertextos . Linus : the version of the legend current at Argos made him the baby son of Apollo and Psamathe , a local princess , who exposed him ; he was killed by hounds , and the city ...
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