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Page xi
... exile ) as damaging evidence of Ovid's elastic morals he points out convincingly that many other well - accepted poets wrote even more lasciv . ious verses than his own - and none of them had been deported for his poems . The error of ...
... exile ) as damaging evidence of Ovid's elastic morals he points out convincingly that many other well - accepted poets wrote even more lasciv . ious verses than his own - and none of them had been deported for his poems . The error of ...
Page xiv
... exile . He had committed no crime , had not been convicted in any court . His offense , whatever it was , had been punished with unusual and unjustifiable severity ; no poet before him had ever suffered such a fate . Whatever sub ...
... exile . He had committed no crime , had not been convicted in any court . His offense , whatever it was , had been punished with unusual and unjustifiable severity ; no poet before him had ever suffered such a fate . Whatever sub ...
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... exile and one not too far from my homeland My punishment thus will be lightened , a large share of it taken away . Cast among hostile people I suffer the ultimate ruin , Nor is any exile sent farther away from his fatherland . I am the ...
... exile and one not too far from my homeland My punishment thus will be lightened , a large share of it taken away . Cast among hostile people I suffer the ultimate ruin , Nor is any exile sent farther away from his fatherland . I am the ...
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