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Page xiii
... follow in each book , except II , an elegy to a faithful friend ( sometimes to more than one ) ; to his wife ( Book v has three elegies to her ) ; to an enemy or detractor at Rome ; and an epilogue , which in iv becomes instead the ...
... follow in each book , except II , an elegy to a faithful friend ( sometimes to more than one ) ; to his wife ( Book v has three elegies to her ) ; to an enemy or detractor at Rome ; and an epilogue , which in iv becomes instead the ...
Page 103
... follow the rites of sad sacrifices , If a barbarous land near to Naso can really be said to be his . O would that the winds by whose blowing Orestes was borne from this region Might carry my sails and me homeward when a god has been ...
... follow the rites of sad sacrifices , If a barbarous land near to Naso can really be said to be his . O would that the winds by whose blowing Orestes was borne from this region Might carry my sails and me homeward when a god has been ...
Page 144
... follow up the earlier triumph I had ? Let it be said with all due respect to you , the nine sisters : You are the principal cause of the exile to which I was forced . And just as the man who created the brazen bull was punished justly ...
... follow up the earlier triumph I had ? Let it be said with all due respect to you , the nine sisters : You are the principal cause of the exile to which I was forced . And just as the man who created the brazen bull was punished justly ...
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