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Here Ovid makes the temple literal, and conducts his _recusatio_ in the terms used by love-poets.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Anchises 'charge to Aeneas calls for a counter-recusatio on Vergil's part.
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That first recusatio rejected epic for the "thin" and precious verse of Hellenistic poets in Alexandria.
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