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... Greek practice is to be the rule . Vv . 285 - end . So we go back to what is applicable to all kinds of poetry ; the comparison of the Greek and Roman temperament , the two aims of poetry , the necessity of excellence , the poet's high ...
... Greek practice is to be the rule . Vv . 285 - end . So we go back to what is applicable to all kinds of poetry ; the comparison of the Greek and Roman temperament , the two aims of poetry , the necessity of excellence , the poet's high ...
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... Greek or Latin , for the materials of his criticism . Porphyrion tells us that Horace , in the Ars Poetica , ' has put together precepts of Neoptolemus of Parium , not all , but the most important ' ; and he carries out this view into ...
... Greek or Latin , for the materials of his criticism . Porphyrion tells us that Horace , in the Ars Poetica , ' has put together precepts of Neoptolemus of Parium , not all , but the most important ' ; and he carries out this view into ...
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... Greek . He has his own purpose , which could not be that of Neoptolemus , and everything contributes to this . He is bringing to bear on a literary question the same shrewd judgment , and the same standing principles , which he has ...
... Greek . He has his own purpose , which could not be that of Neoptolemus , and everything contributes to this . He is bringing to bear on a literary question the same shrewd judgment , and the same standing principles , which he has ...
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... Greek ràs yráðovs dvoâv ( Dem . de Fals . Leg . 442 ) , is used rather of the grimaces of self - importance ; but ovorav is used in both senses . Plautus ( Bacch . 4. 2. 21 ) has sufflari ' of an angry soldier . 6 illis it is ...
... Greek ràs yráðovs dvoâv ( Dem . de Fals . Leg . 442 ) , is used rather of the grimaces of self - importance ; but ovorav is used in both senses . Plautus ( Bacch . 4. 2. 21 ) has sufflari ' of an angry soldier . 6 illis it is ...
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... Greek proverb which expresses the alternative of excess and defect . 106. est modus in rebus : i . e . ' in omnibus rebus , ' ' modus , ' ' measure , ' ' moderation , ' the Greek μérpiov , μeσórns . Horace perhaps has in mind the verse ...
... Greek proverb which expresses the alternative of excess and defect . 106. est modus in rebus : i . e . ' in omnibus rebus , ' ' modus , ' ' measure , ' ' moderation , ' the Greek μérpiov , μeσórns . Horace perhaps has in mind the verse ...
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Page 1 - OLIM truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum, » Cum faber, incertus scamnum faceretne Priapum, Maluit esse deum.
Page v - Ut critici dicunt, leviter curare videtur, Quo promissa cadant et somnia Pythagorea. Naevius in manibus non est et mentibus haeret Paene recens ? Adeo sanctum est vetus omne poema.
Page 7 - Licino commiserit. o ego laevus, qui purgor bilem sub verni temporis horam ! non alius faceret meliora poemata: verum nil tanti est. ergo fungar vice cotis, acutum reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi...
Page 4 - Mimnermus uti censet, sine amore iocisque 65 nil est iucundum, vivas in amore iocisque. vive, vale. si quid novisti rectius istis, candidus imperti : si non, his utere mecum.
Page 15 - VI Hoc erat in votis : modus agri non ita magnus, hortus ubi et tecto vicinus iugis aquae fons et paulum silvae super his foret.