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The influence of Hellenistic literature upon Vergil is no new subject, for commentators have long since exhausted their efforts in bringing to light every resemblance between the words of Apollonius, Theocritus, or Callimachus, and the ...

Claudian displays poetic as well as rhetorical skill in his diverse set of works. A panegyric on the brothers Probinus and Olybrius was followed mostly by epics in hexameters, but also by elegiacs, epistles, epigrams, and idylls.

Gallery of engravings, each accompanied by descriptive text from a Roman poet, followed by an "Explanation" by the author.

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Vol. 4(1882) erwähnt die Handschrift Cod. 109 der Burgerbibliothek Bern: Octaviani Augusti epigramma (f. 136). Baehrens hält die Verse für echt (S. 40, 111, Nr. 122).

Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde bei der Philosophischen Fakultät der Grossherzoglich Hessischen Ludwigs-Universität zu Giessen.

Less important are non-official poems such as the three books of a mythological epic on the Rape of Proserpina, unfinished as was also a Battle of Giants (in Greek).

Contains selected works of Juvenal, Horace, Virgil, Lucretius, Meleager, and Leonidas of Tarentum, with original text and English translation on opposite pages; followed by English translation of Psalms 23 and 137.