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... supposed to be older than the rest . It is not uncommonly supposed to have been written by the grammarian Probus ' , but it is published among the memoirs attributed to Suetonius . It may be a fragment taken from Suetonius ' life of the ...
... supposed to be older than the rest . It is not uncommonly supposed to have been written by the grammarian Probus ' , but it is published among the memoirs attributed to Suetonius . It may be a fragment taken from Suetonius ' life of the ...
Page xxi
... supposed that by Paris is meant a favourite actor of a later reign . But though there may have been later counterparts of Statius , it is not likely that there was another Paris , or any one whom his name would represent , whether with ...
... supposed that by Paris is meant a favourite actor of a later reign . But though there may have been later counterparts of Statius , it is not likely that there was another Paris , or any one whom his name would represent , whether with ...
Page xxvii
... supposed by some that he was born there . But independently of the express testimony of the Grammarian , there is presumptive evidence in the name of Sisennia , which is Etrurian , and in Arria his kinswoman having married Caecina ...
... supposed by some that he was born there . But independently of the express testimony of the Grammarian , there is presumptive evidence in the name of Sisennia , which is Etrurian , and in Arria his kinswoman having married Caecina ...
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... supposed to be the subject , with his wife Myrtale , of an epitaph of four lines on a ' cippus ' preserved among the Arundel 7 Ann . xiv . 19 . 8 See note on Juv . vii . 79. The age usually assigned to Lucanus at his death , twenty- six ...
... supposed to be the subject , with his wife Myrtale , of an epitaph of four lines on a ' cippus ' preserved among the Arundel 7 Ann . xiv . 19 . 8 See note on Juv . vii . 79. The age usually assigned to Lucanus at his death , twenty- six ...
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... supposed to represent the handsome features attributed to Persius , but they may be any body , and we must be content with the Gram- marian's testimony to his beauty . 5 Quintilian ( x . 1. 94 ) says , " Multum et verae gloriae ...
... supposed to represent the handsome features attributed to Persius , but they may be any body , and we must be content with the Gram- marian's testimony to his beauty . 5 Quintilian ( x . 1. 94 ) says , " Multum et verae gloriae ...
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