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Minor Latin poets

with introductions and English translations by J. Wight Duff and Arnold M. Duff

(The Loeb classical library, 284)

W. Heinemann , Harvard University Press, 1935

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Latin text and parallel English translation on opposite pages

First ed.: 1934

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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; eulogy in Laus Pisonis; and the legend of the Phoenix, a poem of the fourth century. Other poets complete the edition.

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  • NCID
    BA24765265
  • ISBN
    • 0674993144
    • 0434992844
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    lateng
  • Original Language Code
    lat
  • Place of Publication
    London,Cambridge, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 838, 8 p.
  • Size
    17 cm
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