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... wrote his diatribes against Cæsar and Mamurra , it can scarcely have been by inheritance . If by any other means , then the conjecture as to his having ruined his fortunes by extra- vagance falls to the ground . That he at one time ...
... wrote his diatribes against Cæsar and Mamurra , it can scarcely have been by inheritance . If by any other means , then the conjecture as to his having ruined his fortunes by extra- vagance falls to the ground . That he at one time ...
Page xxi
... wrote freely but lived purely . It would not be difficult to produce a longer catalogue of writers licentious both in their morals and their verses . Muretus was probably near the truth when he wrote Quisquis versibus exprimit Catullum ...
... wrote freely but lived purely . It would not be difficult to produce a longer catalogue of writers licentious both in their morals and their verses . Muretus was probably near the truth when he wrote Quisquis versibus exprimit Catullum ...
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... wrote few verses that can be called erotic , and only one of his poems is in praise of wine . These form but a small proportion of the one hundred and sixteen pieces of very various merit which have come down to us . Many of these have ...
... wrote few verses that can be called erotic , and only one of his poems is in praise of wine . These form but a small proportion of the one hundred and sixteen pieces of very various merit which have come down to us . Many of these have ...
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... wrote in the fourth century , when the facts of the literary his- tory of Catullus's time were doubtless well known : — Cui dono lepidum novum libellum ? Veronensis ait poeta quondam : Inventoque dedit statim Nepoti . With the pumice ...
... wrote in the fourth century , when the facts of the literary his- tory of Catullus's time were doubtless well known : — Cui dono lepidum novum libellum ? Veronensis ait poeta quondam : Inventoque dedit statim Nepoti . With the pumice ...
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... wrote on the first jar " many , " that being indefinite , instead of " one . " The same superstition is referred to in the last lines of the verses " To Lesbia Kind , " p . 6 , ante . ON QUINCTIA AND LESBIA . PAGE 5 . ROM this NOTES AND ...
... wrote on the first jar " many , " that being indefinite , instead of " one . " The same superstition is referred to in the last lines of the verses " To Lesbia Kind , " p . 6 , ante . ON QUINCTIA AND LESBIA . PAGE 5 . ROM this NOTES AND ...
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Page 142 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the...
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Page 168 - And being ravish'd thus, Come, I will drink a tun To my Propertius. Now, to Tibullus next, This flood I drink to thee; — But stay, I see a text, That this presents to me. Behold! Tibullus lies Here burnt, whose small return Of ashes scarce suffice To fill a little urn. Trust to good verses then; They only will aspire, When pyramids, as men, Are lost i' th
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