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... Rome . Horace joined the republican party , and attained the rank of a mili- tary tribune under Brutus . In whatever light we regard his flight at the subsequent battle of Philippi , it is certain that the disgrace was shared but by too ...
... Rome . Horace joined the republican party , and attained the rank of a mili- tary tribune under Brutus . In whatever light we regard his flight at the subsequent battle of Philippi , it is certain that the disgrace was shared but by too ...
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... Rome during the Augustan age . In accompanying Maecenas in the war against Sextus Pompey a storm arose , and our poet narrowly escaped being drowned in the Gulf of Velia . Nevertheless , he volunteered himself as his companion in the ...
... Rome during the Augustan age . In accompanying Maecenas in the war against Sextus Pompey a storm arose , and our poet narrowly escaped being drowned in the Gulf of Velia . Nevertheless , he volunteered himself as his companion in the ...
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... Rome , and the quieter and more congenial retirement of his villa at Præneste , Horace lived a life of Epicurean enjoyment , not wholly untainted with the vices of the times , but yielding to them rather with the carelessness of a wit ...
... Rome , and the quieter and more congenial retirement of his villa at Præneste , Horace lived a life of Epicurean enjoyment , not wholly untainted with the vices of the times , but yielding to them rather with the carelessness of a wit ...
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... Rome , when devoted alliance was of value . ANTHON . 2 Gaudentem . This word is used to denote a separate character , him who delights : thus , DESIDERANTEM quod satis est . 3 Carm . i . 25 him who bounds his desire by a competency ...
... Rome , when devoted alliance was of value . ANTHON . 2 Gaudentem . This word is used to denote a separate character , him who delights : thus , DESIDERANTEM quod satis est . 3 Carm . i . 25 him who bounds his desire by a competency ...
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... Rome was visited by a severe tempest , and an inundation of the Tiber . The present ode was written in allusion to that event . ANTHON . 6 Of snow and dreadful hail . Turnebus , lib . vi . cap . 8 , Appianus , lib . iv . , and Dion ...
... Rome was visited by a severe tempest , and an inundation of the Tiber . The present ode was written in allusion to that event . ANTHON . 6 Of snow and dreadful hail . Turnebus , lib . vi . cap . 8 , Appianus , lib . iv . , and Dion ...
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