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  • Professor R.J. Tarrant cites Martial XII xciv 5 'fila lyrae moui

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Hor _Carm_ IV iii 21-23 'totum muneris hoc tui est/quod monstror digito praetereuntium/_Romanae fidicen lyrae_'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • ‘Gradiuum, nostri comites, arcete parumper, 195 ut soli uacet aula mihi. procul igneus horror thoracum, gladiosque tegat uagina minacis. stent bellatrices aquilae saeuique dracones; fas sit castra meis hodie succumbere signis. tibia pro lituis et pro clangore tubarum200 molle lyrae festumque canant. epulentur ad ipsas excubias; mediis spirent crateres in armis. laxet terribilis maiestas regia fastus et sociam plebem non indignata potestas confundat turbae proceres. soluantur habenis205 gaudia nec leges pudeat ridere seueras.

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

  • Ue ex - Antiopa 'fiUus fuavi lyrae foao dicitur moviflTe lapides» ut ipHi inter fe compo/ids Sc luperftruAis, Thebaram muri atque urbs «di - ficata fuerint.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793

  • "my daughter" i still have to get used to saying that and hearing "your daughter" from other people. but life is good right now. cassandra lyrae craig was born on january 24th, 2006 at 11: 30 am. she was 6 lbs 11 oz and 19 3/4 in long. and she is beautiful. she is so amazing!

    moonblaze Diary Entry moonblaze 2006

  • ’ non hoc iocosae conueniet lyrae— quo, Musa, tendis? desine peruicax70

    The Path of the Just Horace 1912

  • flumina Threiciae succinuisse lyrae: saxa Cithaeronis Thebas agitata per artem

    The Power of Song 1912

  • dicat et Aoniae Lesbis amata lyrae. quam cito de toto rediit meus orbe Sabinus

    Epic and Love Elegy Ovid 1912

  • uectigal meritae conubiale lyrae. tunc opibus totoque Heliconis sedula regno

    Epistle to Serena Claudian 1912

  • (Capitolia nostrae inficiata lyrae, Sylv.l. iii.v. 31) may do honor to the games of the Capitol; but the Latin poets who lived before Domitian were crowned only in the public opinion.] 11 Petrarch and the senators of

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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