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... rich Mycena . Neither patient Lacedæmon so much struck me , nor so much did the plain of fertile Larissa , as the house of resounding Albunea , and the precipitately rapid Anio , and the Tiburnian groves , and the orchards watered by ...
... rich Mycena . Neither patient Lacedæmon so much struck me , nor so much did the plain of fertile Larissa , as the house of resounding Albunea , and the precipitately rapid Anio , and the Tiburnian groves , and the orchards watered by ...
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... rich with rural honours , shall flow to you , with her generous horn filled to the brim . Here , in a sequestered vale , you shall avoid the heat of the dog - star ; and , on your Anacreontic harp , sing of Penelope 92 and the frail ...
... rich with rural honours , shall flow to you , with her generous horn filled to the brim . Here , in a sequestered vale , you shall avoid the heat of the dog - star ; and , on your Anacreontic harp , sing of Penelope 92 and the frail ...
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... rich crops of fertile Sar- 36 Socraticum domum . Horace calls the sect of Socrates , Socraticum domum , as the schools of the philosophers were called familiæ . DAC . 37 Gnidus , a town in Caria , a country in Asia Minor , between Lycia ...
... rich crops of fertile Sar- 36 Socraticum domum . Horace calls the sect of Socrates , Socraticum domum , as the schools of the philosophers were called familiæ . DAC . 37 Gnidus , a town in Caria , a country in Asia Minor , between Lycia ...
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... rich Achæmenes possessed , or the Mygdonian wealth of fertile Phrygia , or all the dwellings of the Arabians replete with 46 Numantia , a city in Spain , now called Garray : with a garrison of 4000 men , it held out fourteen years ...
... rich Achæmenes possessed , or the Mygdonian wealth of fertile Phrygia , or all the dwellings of the Arabians replete with 46 Numantia , a city in Spain , now called Garray : with a garrison of 4000 men , it held out fourteen years ...
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... rich enough with 65 Architraves , formed of the white marble of Hymettus , a mountain near Athens . ORELLI . 66 The old commentators and Cruquius imagine , that there is a stroke of satire here , by which the poet would insinuate , that ...
... rich enough with 65 Architraves , formed of the white marble of Hymettus , a mountain near Athens . ORELLI . 66 The old commentators and Cruquius imagine , that there is a stroke of satire here , by which the poet would insinuate , that ...
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