Life of Quintus Horatius FlaccusJ. Murray, 1854 - 194 pages |
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... poems are inscribed to Agrippa or Mæcenas , even to the Emperor himself , to his humbler private friend , or to his bailiff . He unites , in the same way , the literary with the social life ; he shows the station assumed by or granted ...
... poems are inscribed to Agrippa or Mæcenas , even to the Emperor himself , to his humbler private friend , or to his bailiff . He unites , in the same way , the literary with the social life ; he shows the station assumed by or granted ...
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... poems are silent , and contain no allusions to his associates and rivals in study . The younger Quintus Cicero was at this time likewise a student at Athens , but there is no clue to connect these two names . ( 13 ) The advantages which ...
... poems are silent , and contain no allusions to his associates and rivals in study . The younger Quintus Cicero was at this time likewise a student at Athens , but there is no clue to connect these two names . ( 13 ) The advantages which ...
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... Poem of Nævius on the first Punic war . ( 27 ) Yet how did this old poetic cycle so utterly perish that no vestige should survive ? ( 25 ) Much , no doubt , is to be attributed to the ordinary causes of decay , - change of manners , of ...
... Poem of Nævius on the first Punic war . ( 27 ) Yet how did this old poetic cycle so utterly perish that no vestige should survive ? ( 25 ) Much , no doubt , is to be attributed to the ordinary causes of decay , - change of manners , of ...
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... poem of Lucretius , the Georgics of Virgil , the Satires and Epistles of Horace , and the works of Juvenal were , no doubt , as much superior even to the poem of Empedocles- ( of which , imitations of the Greek drama , but historical ...
... poem of Lucretius , the Georgics of Virgil , the Satires and Epistles of Horace , and the works of Juvenal were , no doubt , as much superior even to the poem of Empedocles- ( of which , imitations of the Greek drama , but historical ...
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... poems to which they can fairly be compared , as the Latin tragedians were inferior to Eschylus and Sophocles , or Terence to Menander . Ennius , in all points , if he did not commence , com- pleted the denaturalization of Roman poetry ...
... poems to which they can fairly be compared , as the Latin tragedians were inferior to Eschylus and Sophocles , or Terence to Menander . Ennius , in all points , if he did not commence , com- pleted the denaturalization of Roman poetry ...
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