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... became an accomplished Greek scholar ; and afterwards travelled in Asia and Sicily . He tells us himself that his bent was all for poetry ; and his chief friends were the poets of the time . He was acquainted with Propertius , Gallus ...
... became an accomplished Greek scholar ; and afterwards travelled in Asia and Sicily . He tells us himself that his bent was all for poetry ; and his chief friends were the poets of the time . He was acquainted with Propertius , Gallus ...
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... became part of the emperor's care . Nothing could better help the policy of Augustus than the work of popularising the calendar and adorning it with poetic treatment . This was the task which Ovid undertook in the Fasti . The calendar ...
... became part of the emperor's care . Nothing could better help the policy of Augustus than the work of popularising the calendar and adorning it with poetic treatment . This was the task which Ovid undertook in the Fasti . The calendar ...
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... became observable that the nominal seasons no longer coincided with the actual ones . The regulation of the calendar was in the hands of the pontifices , and they accordingly exercised their right of altering the intercalation to suit ...
... became observable that the nominal seasons no longer coincided with the actual ones . The regulation of the calendar was in the hands of the pontifices , and they accordingly exercised their right of altering the intercalation to suit ...
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... became fasti proper . The nundinae or market days , which fell every eighth ( they said ninth ) day were always Comitiales : but these could not be marked in the calendar as they na- turally were different each year : the other Co ...
... became fasti proper . The nundinae or market days , which fell every eighth ( they said ninth ) day were always Comitiales : but these could not be marked in the calendar as they na- turally were different each year : the other Co ...
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... , ' was wrapped in thought ' . 13. Hesiod , born at Ascra in Boeotia ( N. Greece ) , from being a shepherd ( oves ) became the first great poet of agriculture : his poem O. F. Works and Days is still extant . He falls somewhere NOTES. ...
... , ' was wrapped in thought ' . 13. Hesiod , born at Ascra in Boeotia ( N. Greece ) , from being a shepherd ( oves ) became the first great poet of agriculture : his poem O. F. Works and Days is still extant . He falls somewhere NOTES. ...
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