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Pausanias, Description of Greece | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Art of Poetry: To the Pisos (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 6, line 218 (search)
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Art of Poetry: To the Pisos (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), line 391 (search)
Orpheus, the priest and interpreter of the gods, deterred the savage race of men from slaughters and inhuman diet; hence said to tame tigers and furious lions: Amphion too, the builder of the Theban wall, was said to give the stones motion with the sound of his lyre, and to lead them whithersoever he would, by engaging persuasion. This was deemed wisdom of yore, to distinguish the public from private weal; things sacred from things profane; to prohibit a promiscuous commerce between the sexes; to give laws to married people; to plan out cities; to engrave laws on [tables of] wood. Thus honor accrued to divine poets, and their songs. After these, excellent Homer and Tyrtaeus animated the manly mind to martial achievements with their verses. Oracles were delivered in poetry, and the economy of life pointed out, and the favor of sovereign princes was solicited by Pieriani. e. strains of the muses, surnamed Pierides strains, games were instituted, and a [cheerful] period put to the tedio
P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various), Elegy XII: He complains that the praises he has bestowed on his mistress in his verses, have occasioned him many rivals. (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 6, line 218 (search)