Catullus, Tibullus, and PropertiusW. Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 180 pages |
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... probably rather with a craving for rest than from the love of nature , which is not a key - note of his life or poetry . His removal to Rome at an early age for his education must have begun the weaning pro- cess ; and though Verona had ...
... probably rather with a craving for rest than from the love of nature , which is not a key - note of his life or poetry . His removal to Rome at an early age for his education must have begun the weaning pro- cess ; and though Verona had ...
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... probably in nowise amenable to the charge of being a spendthrift or " distrest poet , " but rather a man of good average means , in fair circumstances and good society . For the latter it is plain that his education would have fitted ...
... probably in nowise amenable to the charge of being a spendthrift or " distrest poet , " but rather a man of good average means , in fair circumstances and good society . For the latter it is plain that his education would have fitted ...
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... probably , of Tibullus , does the Lesbia of Catullus fasten her spell around him , to the exclusion of other and fresh loves , of which he was apparently cautious and forbearing both before and after the crisis of his master - passion ...
... probably , of Tibullus , does the Lesbia of Catullus fasten her spell around him , to the exclusion of other and fresh loves , of which he was apparently cautious and forbearing both before and after the crisis of his master - passion ...
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... probably first met her ; and the woman had precisely the fascinations to entangle one so full of the tender and voluptuous , and withal so cultivated and accom- plished as Catullus must have been . It has been epi- grammatically said of ...
... probably first met her ; and the woman had precisely the fascinations to entangle one so full of the tender and voluptuous , and withal so cultivated and accom- plished as Catullus must have been . It has been epi- grammatically said of ...
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... probably by a sympathetic translation into Latin sapphics of her famous ode to Phaon that he first announced his suit and evinced his passion . After this is grant- ed , it will remain to decide from internal evidence whether there are ...
... probably by a sympathetic translation into Latin sapphics of her famous ode to Phaon that he first announced his suit and evinced his passion . After this is grant- ed , it will remain to decide from internal evidence whether there are ...
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