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This is the first 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 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; eulog
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 26 December 1935
ISBN-10 : 0674993144 | ISBN-13: 9780674993143
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Release date: 26 December 1935
ISBN-10 : 0674993144 | ISBN-13: 9780674993143
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