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Page ix
... Death of the Author that he advised his Mother to fupprefs these Verfes , together with all the reft which he had composed in his Youth . Omnia autem Cornutus auctor fuit MATRI ejus ut aboleret . By this the Author of the Epiftle ...
... Death of the Author that he advised his Mother to fupprefs these Verfes , together with all the reft which he had composed in his Youth . Omnia autem Cornutus auctor fuit MATRI ejus ut aboleret . By this the Author of the Epiftle ...
Page xvi
... death , for having dared to fay that Nero would make too many Verfes if he composed four hundred Books of them , and that the Example of Chryfippus fhould not be alledged in the Cafe , feeing the Books of that Philofopher were ufeful to ...
... death , for having dared to fay that Nero would make too many Verfes if he composed four hundred Books of them , and that the Example of Chryfippus fhould not be alledged in the Cafe , feeing the Books of that Philofopher were ufeful to ...
Page xvii
... Death . He was born the fourth of December , Fabio Perfico , L. Vitellio Cofs . and died the twenty - fourth of ... Death with so much Exactness , he places his Death in the thirtieth Year of his Age . St. Ferom's Miftake is not fo great ...
... Death . He was born the fourth of December , Fabio Perfico , L. Vitellio Cofs . and died the twenty - fourth of ... Death with so much Exactness , he places his Death in the thirtieth Year of his Age . St. Ferom's Miftake is not fo great ...
Page xviii
... Death fome Months later . But befides that St. Jerome makes no fuch Dif- tinction , we have seen that Perfius was born in Decem- ber , and died in November . I am more furprized at Scaliger's acquiefcing in St. Jerome's Computation ...
... Death fome Months later . But befides that St. Jerome makes no fuch Dif- tinction , we have seen that Perfius was born in Decem- ber , and died in November . I am more furprized at Scaliger's acquiefcing in St. Jerome's Computation ...
Page xix
... Death of Perfius in the two hundred and third Olympiad , in the Year of Rome seven hundred and twenty five , and in the twenty fecond Year of Tibe rius's Reign . ( H ) Whatever his Panegyrifts may say he wrote obfcurely . ] Among the ...
... Death of Perfius in the two hundred and third Olympiad , in the Year of Rome seven hundred and twenty five , and in the twenty fecond Year of Tibe rius's Reign . ( H ) Whatever his Panegyrifts may say he wrote obfcurely . ] Among the ...
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