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... period of Roman literary his- tory until we reach the Ciceronian and Augustan age . These facts are of fundamental importance for all students of Horace's satires , for they at once render necessary a com- plete revision of judgment in ...
... period of Roman literary his- tory until we reach the Ciceronian and Augustan age . These facts are of fundamental importance for all students of Horace's satires , for they at once render necessary a com- plete revision of judgment in ...
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... period from the 4th century B.C. to the middle of the 18th century . It is my hope then that this book will make an appeal to all who are interested in literary relationships , and to such cultivated readers as believe it is still ...
... period from the 4th century B.C. to the middle of the 18th century . It is my hope then that this book will make an appeal to all who are interested in literary relationships , and to such cultivated readers as believe it is still ...
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... period and was nationalized in Rome in the age of the Sci- pios . Here it underwent still further formulations and develop- ments at the hands of Cicero , Brutus , the Roman Atticists , Horace , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Quintilian ...
... period and was nationalized in Rome in the age of the Sci- pios . Here it underwent still further formulations and develop- ments at the hands of Cicero , Brutus , the Roman Atticists , Horace , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Quintilian ...
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... period we may fairly call the classical theory of imita- tion , regarded the subject matter falling within the pale of the genre as the common property of the workers in the genre , and looked askance both at independent invention and ...
... period we may fairly call the classical theory of imita- tion , regarded the subject matter falling within the pale of the genre as the common property of the workers in the genre , and looked askance both at independent invention and ...
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... period ; and on the other hand because he restates , enlarges , transforms , and refines the stylistic theories which first found expression in the theoretical treatises of the earlier period . Above all we learn from Cicero's use of ...
... period ; and on the other hand because he restates , enlarges , transforms , and refines the stylistic theories which first found expression in the theoretical treatises of the earlier period . Above all we learn from Cicero's use of ...
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Page 448 - ... qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam, multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit, abstinuit venere et vino ; qui Pythia cantat tibicen, didicit prius extimuitque magistrum. nunc satis est dixisse ' ego mira poemata pango ; occupet extremum scabies ; mihi turpe relinqui est, et quod non didici sane nescire fateri.
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Page 98 - ... non laudem merui. vos exemplaria Graeca nocturna versate manu, versate diurna. at vestri proavi Plautinos et numeros et 270 laudavere sales ; nimium patienter utrumque, ne dicam stulte, mirati, si modo ego et vos scimus inurbanum lepido seponere dicto, legitimumque sonum digitis callemus et aure.
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Page 101 - In hoc genere Fannius in Annalibus suis Africanum hunc Aemilianum dicit fuisse egregium et Graeco eum verbo appellat ei/jouva : sed, uti ferunt qui melius haec norunt, Socratem opinor in hac ironia dissimulantiaque longe lepore et humanitate omnibus praestitisse.
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Page 91 - ... 104 Duplex omnino est iocandi genus : unum illiberale, petulans, flagitiosum, obscenum ; alterum elegans, urbanum, ingeniosum, facetum. Quo genere non modo Plautus noster et atticorum antiqua comoedia, sed etiam philosophorum socraticorum libri referti sunt, multaque multorum facete dicta, ut ea quae a sene Catone collecta sunt, quae uocant àTOxpQéyjjLaTO. Facilis igitur est distinctio ingenui et illiberalis ioci.