The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & brothers, 1846 - 681 pages |
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... Roman circus , a low wall was erected which divided the Spatium , or race - ground , into two unequal parts . Cassiodorus calls it the spina . At each of its extremities , and resting on hollow basements , were placed three pillars ...
... Roman circus , a low wall was erected which divided the Spatium , or race - ground , into two unequal parts . Cassiodorus calls it the spina . At each of its extremities , and resting on hollow basements , were placed three pillars ...
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... Roman people.- 13. Trabe Cypria . The epithet " Cyprian " seems to allude here not so much to the commerce of the island , extensive as it was , as to the excellent quality of its naval timber . The poet , it will be perceived , uses ...
... Roman people.- 13. Trabe Cypria . The epithet " Cyprian " seems to allude here not so much to the commerce of the island , extensive as it was , as to the excellent quality of its naval timber . The poet , it will be perceived , uses ...
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... Romans from the pollution occasioned by their civil strife ? Is it Apollo , god of prophecy ? Or Venus , parent of Rome ? Or Mars , founder of the Roman line ? Or Mercury , messenger of the skies ? -It is the last , the avenger of Ca ...
... Romans from the pollution occasioned by their civil strife ? Is it Apollo , god of prophecy ? Or Venus , parent of Rome ? Or Mars , founder of the Roman line ? Or Mercury , messenger of the skies ? -It is the last , the avenger of Ca ...
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... Roman History , vol . 1. p . 176. 2d ed . Hare und Thirlwall's transl . ) — Nimium . Taken as an adjective , and referring to ultorem . It alludes to the violence of the inundation . Some commenta tors connect it as an adverb with ...
... Roman History , vol . 1. p . 176. 2d ed . Hare und Thirlwall's transl . ) — Nimium . Taken as an adjective , and referring to ultorem . It alludes to the violence of the inundation . Some commenta tors connect it as an adverb with ...
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... Romans . " To one who did not know , " observes Mr. Dunlop , " that the mortuary festivals almost immediately succeeded those of Faunus , the lines in question might appear disjointed and incongruous . But to a Roman , who at once could ...
... Romans . " To one who did not know , " observes Mr. Dunlop , " that the mortuary festivals almost immediately succeeded those of Faunus , the lines in question might appear disjointed and incongruous . But to a Roman , who at once could ...
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