Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and LyricJohn Patrick Sullivan |
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... epigram upon Virgil and Tibullus , written by a minor Augustan , Domitius Marsus . The epigram suggests that he may have been born in the late fifties we do not know where - and tells us that he died early , in fact in the same year as ...
... epigram upon Virgil and Tibullus , written by a minor Augustan , Domitius Marsus . The epigram suggests that he may have been born in the late fifties we do not know where - and tells us that he died early , in fact in the same year as ...
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... epigrams were an indication of his own immorality . He preserved for us a line of the Emperor Hadrian , for inscription on the tomb of the poet Voconius : lasciuus uersu , mente pudicus eras . Racy in your poetry , you were chaste in ...
... epigrams were an indication of his own immorality . He preserved for us a line of the Emperor Hadrian , for inscription on the tomb of the poet Voconius : lasciuus uersu , mente pudicus eras . Racy in your poetry , you were chaste in ...
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... epigram , but one suspects that they are not entirely derivative . The scene is set on home ground , and Campus is the Campus Martius , the Park of Rome . The reminiscences of Alcaeus's light - hearted song were orna- mental and ...
... epigram , but one suspects that they are not entirely derivative . The scene is set on home ground , and Campus is the Campus Martius , the Park of Rome . The reminiscences of Alcaeus's light - hearted song were orna- mental and ...
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INTRODUCTION J P Sullivan Lincoln College page I | 13 |
DOCTE CATULLE K F Quinn University of 31 | 31 |
Tersus atque elEGANS J P Elder | 65 |
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