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... become a topos in Latin poetry . It starts with Homer's description ( Iliad 23.114-123 ) of gathering timber for ... becomes a source for Celtic religion ) . 400-401 cingens : ... ' enclosing with interlacing branches the dark air and ...
... become a topos in Latin poetry . It starts with Homer's description ( Iliad 23.114-123 ) of gathering timber for ... becomes a source for Celtic religion ) . 400-401 cingens : ... ' enclosing with interlacing branches the dark air and ...
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... become a well- developed topos . But the opening of this excerpt ( 38-40 ) suggests that Valerius may well have read a poem on Germanicus ' North Sea expedition written by C. Albinovanus Pedo , the sol- dier poet who was a friend of ...
... become a well- developed topos . But the opening of this excerpt ( 38-40 ) suggests that Valerius may well have read a poem on Germanicus ' North Sea expedition written by C. Albinovanus Pedo , the sol- dier poet who was a friend of ...
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... become a sea - borne wanderer . In the second simile ( 124-127 ) Medea is compared with a pet dog sickening for ... becomes the immediate cause of war between the Latins and Aeneas ' Trojans ) . Bathos was probably not intended by ...
... become a sea - borne wanderer . In the second simile ( 124-127 ) Medea is compared with a pet dog sickening for ... becomes the immediate cause of war between the Latins and Aeneas ' Trojans ) . Bathos was probably not intended by ...
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