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... person or object , absent or present ) is a device already found , though infrequently , in Homer ( e.g. Iliad 4.127f . ) . It became a mannerism of Hel- lenistic poetry , providing dramatic variety and an emotional or subjective ...
... person or object , absent or present ) is a device already found , though infrequently , in Homer ( e.g. Iliad 4.127f . ) . It became a mannerism of Hel- lenistic poetry , providing dramatic variety and an emotional or subjective ...
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... person and of the thing taught ) ; cf. Ovid , Metamorphoses 8.215 ( the first instance of the usage ) - damnosasque erudit artes ( sc . Icarum ) . As often , a more complicated verb ( erudire ) has taken over the construction of a ...
... person and of the thing taught ) ; cf. Ovid , Metamorphoses 8.215 ( the first instance of the usage ) - damnosasque erudit artes ( sc . Icarum ) . As often , a more complicated verb ( erudire ) has taken over the construction of a ...
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... person , the reader is left very much to imagine the effect of the narration on Dido and on the growth of her love . Valerius in third person narrative in Book 6 is able to return amid the war to Medea's feelings ( passages 12 and 13 ) ...
... person , the reader is left very much to imagine the effect of the narration on Dido and on the growth of her love . Valerius in third person narrative in Book 6 is able to return amid the war to Medea's feelings ( passages 12 and 13 ) ...
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