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sacerdos: cf. Vergil's pii vates and Musae quarum sacra fero (G. 2.475); Milt., 'Smit with the love of Sacred Song'; Ov. Am. 3.8.23, ille ego Musarum purus Phoebique sacerdos; Theoc. 16.29. Ancient critics thought of the poet as a teacher; Epp. 2.1.126 sqq.; Aristoph. Frogs 1054; Jebb, Gk. Poetry, p.226.


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