T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex, Volume 1Deighton Bell, 1893 - Latin poetry |
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... many other cases as well . If the text of Virgil rested , like that of Lucretius , on a single manuscript , how much there is in him we should refuse to accept as Latin ! This ' must give xi us pause . ' Yet I have not sinned.
... many other cases as well . If the text of Virgil rested , like that of Lucretius , on a single manuscript , how much there is in him we should refuse to accept as Latin ! This ' must give xi us pause . ' Yet I have not sinned.
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... Latin poets . Certainly he would have been more easy to explain than Virgil for instance or Horace ; for he tells what he has to tell simply and directly , and among his poetical merits is not included that of leaving his reader to ...
... Latin poets . Certainly he would have been more easy to explain than Virgil for instance or Horace ; for he tells what he has to tell simply and directly , and among his poetical merits is not included that of leaving his reader to ...
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... Latin works hitherto totally unknown in Italy : see Mehus ' preface to his life of Ambrosius Traversarius p . xxxiii foll . Among these was a manuscript of Lucretius , obtained apparently from some German monastery either by him or his ...
... Latin works hitherto totally unknown in Italy : see Mehus ' preface to his life of Ambrosius Traversarius p . xxxiii foll . Among these was a manuscript of Lucretius , obtained apparently from some German monastery either by him or his ...
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... Latin poet , and I doubt whether Poggio saw his Lucretius at all events before his return from Rome to Florence in 1434. Niccoli died in 1437 and left behind him a manuscript written by his own hand and now in the Laurentian library ...
... Latin poet , and I doubt whether Poggio saw his Lucretius at all events before his return from Rome to Florence in 1434. Niccoli died in 1437 and left behind him a manuscript written by his own hand and now in the Laurentian library ...
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... Latin scholar , and had studied Priscian Nonius and Ma- crobius for the illustration of his author . Aldus in his prefatory letter to Albertus Pius confirms this , and says that he knew Lucretius by heart , ut digitos unguesque suos ...
... Latin scholar , and had studied Priscian Nonius and Ma- crobius for the illustration of his author . Aldus in his prefatory letter to Albertus Pius confirms this , and says that he knew Lucretius by heart , ut digitos unguesque suos ...
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