Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1J.M. Dent, 1961 |
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... Timo- creon reviles him yet more immoderately and wildly in a poem that begins thus : - " Unto all the Greeks repair , O Muse , and tell these verses there , As is fitting and is fair . " The story is , that it was put to the question ...
... Timo- creon reviles him yet more immoderately and wildly in a poem that begins thus : - " Unto all the Greeks repair , O Muse , and tell these verses there , As is fitting and is fair . " The story is , that it was put to the question ...
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THE COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS | 56 |
NUMA POMPILIUS | 91 |
THE COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS | 114 |
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