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... slaves , place me a live turf ; here , place me vervains and frankincense , with a flagon of two - year - old wine . She will approach more propitious , after a victim has been sacrificed . ODE XX . TO MECENAS . My dear knight Maecenas ...
... slaves , place me a live turf ; here , place me vervains and frankincense , with a flagon of two - year - old wine . She will approach more propitious , after a victim has been sacrificed . ODE XX . TO MECENAS . My dear knight Maecenas ...
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... slave , after you have killed her betrothed husband ? What boy from the court shall be made your cup - bearer , with his 30 Which declines to its setting . The rising and setting of this constel- lation are usually attended with storms ...
... slave , after you have killed her betrothed husband ? What boy from the court shall be made your cup - bearer , with his 30 Which declines to its setting . The rising and setting of this constel- lation are usually attended with storms ...
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... slave - born Myrtale , more un- tractable than the Adriatic Sea that forms the Calabrian gulfs , entangled me in a pleasing chain , at the very time that a more eligible love courted my embraces . ODE XXXIV . AGAINST THE EPICUREANS . A ...
... slave - born Myrtale , more un- tractable than the Adriatic Sea that forms the Calabrian gulfs , entangled me in a pleasing chain , at the very time that a more eligible love courted my embraces . ODE XXXIV . AGAINST THE EPICUREANS . A ...
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... slaves ] to bring the wine , and the perfumes , and the too short - lived flowers of the grateful rose , while fortune , and age , and the sable threads of the three sisters permit thee . You must depart from your numerous purchased ...
... slaves ] to bring the wine , and the perfumes , and the too short - lived flowers of the grateful rose , while fortune , and age , and the sable threads of the three sisters permit thee . You must depart from your numerous purchased ...
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... slave Briseis 23 moved the haughty Achilles by her snowy com- plexion . The beauty of the captive Tecmessa 24 smote her master , the Telamonian Ajax ; Agamemnon , in the midst of victory , burned for a ravished virgin : when the ...
... slave Briseis 23 moved the haughty Achilles by her snowy com- plexion . The beauty of the captive Tecmessa 24 smote her master , the Telamonian Ajax ; Agamemnon , in the midst of victory , burned for a ravished virgin : when the ...
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