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Quem negligentes adducere ad sanctum uirum reuersi neminem nisi adolescentulum illiteratum qui profugus in siluis errabat se inuenisse asseruerunt.
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Elapso post hoc tempore, quidam satellites diabuli uirum quendam iuxta monasterium eius commorantem interficere conabantur.
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Neither passage would have seemed strange to the Romans, given the close identification between poet and work: compare Ennius 'famous' uolito uiuo 'per ora uirum' and
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Getty cites Velleius II 1 4 'Pompeium magni nominis uirum'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Illi [illium MSS.] enim eundem uirum iugulantes statuam quandam lapideam percuciebant.
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Compare _Tr_ I v 1 'O mihi post nullos umquam [_uar_ ullos numquam] memorande sodales' and _EP_ I iii 65-66 'Zmyrna uirum tenuit, non Pontus et hostica tellus,/paene _minus nullo_ Zmyrna petenda loco'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Mumoniensis genere, ad uirum Dei uisitandum peruenit.
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COLLIS o Heliconiei cultor, Vraniae genus, qui rapis teneram ad uirum
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Tyrrhenusque fretis immittitur aestus Auernis? haec eadem argenti riuos aerisque metalla30 ostendit uenis atque auro plurima fluxit. haec genus acre uirum, Marsos pubemque Sabellam adsuetumque malo Ligurem Volscosque uerutos extulit, haec Decios Fabios magnosque Camillos,
Italia, io te saluto Vergil 1912
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Scipiadas duros bello et te, maxime Caesar, 35 qui nunc extremis Asiae iam uictor in oris imbellem auertis Romanis arcibus Indum. salue, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus, magna uirum: tibi res antiquae laudis et artis ingredior sanctos ausus recludere fontis, 40
Italia, io te saluto Vergil 1912
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