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... Augustus . A most amusing description of " travellers ' miseries , " in the fifth Satire of the first Book ... Augustan age . In accompanying Maecenas in the war against Sextus Pompey a storm arose , and our poet narrowly escaped being ...
... Augustus . A most amusing description of " travellers ' miseries , " in the fifth Satire of the first Book ... Augustan age . In accompanying Maecenas in the war against Sextus Pompey a storm arose , and our poet narrowly escaped being ...
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... Augustus bore this refusal in good part , and even personally encouraged our poet to further literary exertions . Alternating between his dwelling on the then healthy Esquiline hill at Rome , and the quieter and more congenial ...
... Augustus bore this refusal in good part , and even personally encouraged our poet to further literary exertions . Alternating between his dwelling on the then healthy Esquiline hill at Rome , and the quieter and more congenial ...
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... Augustus , and distinguished himself by his patronage of literary men , is said to have been descended from Elbius Volterenus , one of the Lucumones of Etruria , who fell in the battle at the lake Vadimona , A. U. c . 445. The Cilnian ...
... Augustus , and distinguished himself by his patronage of literary men , is said to have been descended from Elbius Volterenus , one of the Lucumones of Etruria , who fell in the battle at the lake Vadimona , A. U. c . 445. The Cilnian ...
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... AUGUSTUS CESAR.5 ENOUGH of snow and dreadful hail has the Sire now sent Demere partem de solido die , " sine ulla dubitatione est meridiari , i . e . ipso meridie horam unam aut alteram dormire ; quod qui faciunt , diem quodammodo ...
... AUGUSTUS CESAR.5 ENOUGH of snow and dreadful hail has the Sire now sent Demere partem de solido die , " sine ulla dubitatione est meridiari , i . e . ipso meridie horam unam aut alteram dormire ; quod qui faciunt , diem quodammodo ...
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... Augustus Juvenem . Varro tells us this last word is derived from Juvare , as if this age were capable of rendering the most considerable services to the republic . SAN . 15 Augustus , in the month of August , 725 , had triumphed three ...
... Augustus Juvenem . Varro tells us this last word is derived from Juvare , as if this age were capable of rendering the most considerable services to the republic . SAN . 15 Augustus , in the month of August , 725 , had triumphed three ...
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