Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 2Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1967 |
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Page vii
... Roman Literature , 503—17 ; politics dominant at Roine , 504 ; no national literature , 506 ; carliest lit- erature of the Romans , 507 ; Lu- cretius , 509 ; Roman satire , 511 ; Historians , 512 ; Cæsar , 515 ; phil- osophy never ...
... Roman Literature , 503—17 ; politics dominant at Roine , 504 ; no national literature , 506 ; carliest lit- erature of the Romans , 507 ; Lu- cretius , 509 ; Roman satire , 511 ; Historians , 512 ; Cæsar , 515 ; phil- osophy never ...
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... Roman literature , by a diligent and persevering imitation of Greek models , and by latinizing Roman legends , drawn from Grecian sources . His success was remarkable , and not unmerited , if we may judge from the praises of subsequent ...
... Roman literature , by a diligent and persevering imitation of Greek models , and by latinizing Roman legends , drawn from Grecian sources . His success was remarkable , and not unmerited , if we may judge from the praises of subsequent ...
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... Roman oratory was wholly Greek , and Cicero was , perhaps , the most Greek of Roman orators . Eloquence was rather a holiday amusement with the Roman people , though it required long and diligent training on the part of the orators ...
... Roman oratory was wholly Greek , and Cicero was , perhaps , the most Greek of Roman orators . Eloquence was rather a holiday amusement with the Roman people , though it required long and diligent training on the part of the orators ...
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