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Minor Latin Poets . Volume II, Florus. Hadrian. Nemesianus. Reposianus. Tiberianus. Dicta Catonis. Phoenix. Avianus. Rutilius Namatianus. Others / / edited by J. Wight Duff, Arnold M. Duff |
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Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 1934 |
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1 online resource (432 pages) |
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Latin poetry - Greek influences |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface to the New Edition - Florus - Introduction - Text and Translation - Hadrian - Introduction - Text and Translation - Nemesianus Introduction - Bucolica - Cynegetica - Two Fragments on Bird-Catching - Reposianus, Modestinus, "Cupido Amans," and Pentadius - Introduction - Reposianus: The Intrugue of Mars With Venus - Modestinus: Cupid Asleep - Anonymous: Cupid in Love - Pentadius: On Changing Fortune - Pentadius: On the Arrival of Spring - Pentadius: Narcissus - Pentadius: Shorter Poems - Tiberianus - Introduction - Text and Translation - Servasius - Introduction - Text and Translation - "Dicta Catonis" - Introduction to Disticha - Text and Translation - Introduction to Monosticha - Text and Translation - Introduction to Lines from Columbanus - Text and Translation - Introduction to Lines on the Muses - Text and Translation - Introduction to Epitaph on Vitalis - Text and Translation - Phoenix - Introduction - Text and Translation - Avianus - Introduction - Text and Translation - Rutilius Namatianus - Introduction - Text and Translation - Index. |
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This is the second volume of an anthology of Latin poetry. The two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus, who flourished ca. 45 BCE, and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius Namatianus recording a sea voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416 CE. A wide variety of theme gives interest to the poems: hunting in |
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a poem of Grattius; an inquiry into the causes of volcanic activity by the author of Aetna; pastoral poems by Calpurnius Siculus and by Nemesianus; fables by Avianus; a collection of Dicta, moral sayings, as if by the elder Cato; eulogy in Laus Pisonis; and the legend of the Phoenix, a poem of the fourth century. Other poets complete the work. |
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