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A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age : $b From Tiberius to Hadrian
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Front Matter
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Preface
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PROLOGUE
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CHAPTER II
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CHAPTER I
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CHAPTER II
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Book I. Religion, auspices, omens, prodigies and marvels
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Book VII. Good fortune, wise sayings or acts, smart sayings or
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Book VIII. A book covering an extensive range, but furnishing
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice,
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER III
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER IV
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER V
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER I
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER II
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER III
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Book V asks “Is it a shame to be surpassed in benefits?” then takes up
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Book II he gives his threefold division of the knowledge of nature into
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER IV
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER V
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER VI
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Book VII is not free from turgidity and extravagance, but it is the
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER VII
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER I
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER II
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER III
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Book IV are explained away by Wölfflin as conscious imitation on the
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Book IX. Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice, · CHAPTER IV
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Book VIII: Only one course is now open to Medea. In terror at her own
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Book VIII: Only one course is now open to Medea. In terror at her own · CHAPTER V
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Book V is on Lake Trasimene, opening in legend and the mists of dawn,
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Book VI is largely devoted to the story of Regulus taken from the first
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Book VIII forms a prelude to the battle of Cannae, as related in the two
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Book XI brings Hannibal to Capua, where luxury begins its demoralizing
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Book VIII: Only one course is now open to Medea. In terror at her own · CHAPTER VI
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Book I. Statius makes a dull start with frigid professions of ignorance
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Book II. The woes of an accursed house work even beyond the grave. The
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Book III. At the news there is sorrow in Thebes. To stir up Argos,
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Book IV. King Adrastus decides on war in the third spring after Polynices
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Book V. King Adrastus is desirous of knowing who this benefactress is,
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Book VI. The epic interest is considerably less in a book concerned first
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Book VII. Jupiter is vexed that the Argives should delay the war by
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Book VIII. Excitement reigns in the lower world over the sudden descent
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Book IX is mainly concerned with the valiancy of two heroes, Hippomedon
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Book X. Theban troops, inspirited by Eteocles’s harangue, plan to
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Book XI. Goaded by Tisiphone, Polynices challenges Eteocles to single
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Book XII opens with funeral honours for the Theban dead. A report of
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Book I. Statius is not at his best in the opening poem, on the
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Book III opens with a record of the dedication of a temple to Hercules by
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Book V begins with the commemorative poem consoling Abascantus in his
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Book I. Statius is not at his best in the opening poem, on the · CHAPTER VII
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Book VIII he pretends to hesitate over multiplying epigrams—five books,
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Book I. Statius is not at his best in the opening poem, on the · CHAPTER I
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Book I. Statius is not at his best in the opening poem, on the · CHAPTER II
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Book I. Statius is not at his best in the opening poem, on the · CHAPTER III
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Book III. of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue
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Book III. of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue · II.
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Book III. of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue · I
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Book III. of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue · L
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Book III. of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue · V
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Book III. of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue · X
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