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... common method of hunting was to drive the beasts into a large space , previously enclosed with nets . Plagae ( if a distinction is made ) are larger and stronger than retia . Rara is properly ' wide - meshed , ' i.e. acc . to most ...
... common method of hunting was to drive the beasts into a large space , previously enclosed with nets . Plagae ( if a distinction is made ) are larger and stronger than retia . Rara is properly ' wide - meshed , ' i.e. acc . to most ...
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... not mean that he was flogged in Spain ; but , if Menas is meant , there would be point in this , since the head- quarters of Sextus Pompeius had been there . latus . In this common construction the participle is really EPODON LIBER . 37.
... not mean that he was flogged in Spain ; but , if Menas is meant , there would be point in this , since the head- quarters of Sextus Pompeius had been there . latus . In this common construction the participle is really EPODON LIBER . 37.
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Horace Herbert Andrew Dalton. latus . In this common construction the participle is really middle , ' having got your side sore . ' Cf. Roby , 471 , and A. P. 160 note . 7. Sacram ... viam , a favourite promenade ( cf. Ep . vii . 8 ...
Horace Herbert Andrew Dalton. latus . In this common construction the participle is really middle , ' having got your side sore . ' Cf. Roby , 471 , and A. P. 160 note . 7. Sacram ... viam , a favourite promenade ( cf. Ep . vii . 8 ...
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... common idiom , as Ep . i . 16 , 61 - ' da mihi . . . justo sancto- que videri ' ; A. P. 372. The expression in any case is an awkward one . To Horace barbarians are dispar to Romans . The corre- sponding truth , that Greeks ought not to ...
... common idiom , as Ep . i . 16 , 61 - ' da mihi . . . justo sancto- que videri ' ; A. P. 372. The expression in any case is an awkward one . To Horace barbarians are dispar to Romans . The corre- sponding truth , that Greeks ought not to ...
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... common soldier's cloak , distinct from the paluda- mentum , general's cloak , which was either scarlet or white . 29. centum . Kρýтην ÉкатÓμπολɩ — Il . ii . 649 . 36. metire , ' measure out , ' i.e. the due proportion of wine to water ...
... common soldier's cloak , distinct from the paluda- mentum , general's cloak , which was either scarlet or white . 29. centum . Kρýтην ÉкатÓμπολɩ — Il . ii . 649 . 36. metire , ' measure out , ' i.e. the due proportion of wine to water ...
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A. S. WALPOLE actor actus aetas alta animi animos Antonius Archilochus Assistant Master atque Book Cethegi Choerilus chorus Cicero comedy common cyclic poets domum dramatic poetry Edited elegiac enim Epode erit etiam Euripides expression fabula genius Greek haec Hence heroes Hesiod Homer Horace Horace's hunc iambic iambus Iliad invented juvat Juvenal Latium Liburnis Livy loqui M.A. Ready Maecenas meaning Menas metaphor metre mihi Multa nefas Neque nunc Octavian Odes omnes orator Orelli orichalco Ovid passage perhaps Piso Plautus play poem poëmata poet poëtae POETICA poëtis ponere privatis quae quam quid quod refers reponi rerum Roby Roman Rome satyric drama satyrs scriptor semel sense Sextus Pompeius sibi sine Sophocles speciosa supposed tamen Thespis tibi tion tragedy trimeter uncia unus verb verses Versibus videre Virg Virgil Vocabulary words
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