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... divine verse : ' And indeed you are mindful of the god- dess , and you are able to remember her . ' Philosophy also theorizes as to why Mnemosyne is the mother of the Muses . It argues that habit results from repeated acts , memory from ...
... divine verse : ' And indeed you are mindful of the god- dess , and you are able to remember her . ' Philosophy also theorizes as to why Mnemosyne is the mother of the Muses . It argues that habit results from repeated acts , memory from ...
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... divine art for the Muses , in consequence of which the Muses are called Thespiades and Heliconides . Among the Oscans the Muses were called Camenae , because of their prophetic utterances . Also , because of their superior genius and ...
... divine art for the Muses , in consequence of which the Muses are called Thespiades and Heliconides . Among the Oscans the Muses were called Camenae , because of their prophetic utterances . Also , because of their superior genius and ...
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... divine life . That the Graces and pleasure and the Muses and good health are related , may be gathered from the ... divine madness , and wrested from their lowliness . It is the work of the gods , who , though divine , use even these as ...
... divine life . That the Graces and pleasure and the Muses and good health are related , may be gathered from the ... divine madness , and wrested from their lowliness . It is the work of the gods , who , though divine , use even these as ...
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... divine madness may imbue them to do their work . Of these divinely possessed ones , two classes are to be recognized . The one class are those to whom the divine power comes from above , with no mental effort on their part except the ...
... divine madness may imbue them to do their work . Of these divinely possessed ones , two classes are to be recognized . The one class are those to whom the divine power comes from above , with no mental effort on their part except the ...
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... divine that they are believed to have given a soul to inanimate things . The second is that of the philo- sophical poets , and these again are of two sorts - natural , as Empedocles , Nicander , Aratus , and Lucretius ; and moral ...
... divine that they are believed to have given a soul to inanimate things . The second is that of the philo- sophical poets , and these again are of two sorts - natural , as Empedocles , Nicander , Aratus , and Lucretius ; and moral ...
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