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Grammar, linguistics, etymology, &c.

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Caesar in Vergil and Servius

Servius identifies the “Julius Caesar” named in Aeneid 1.286-8 as the dictator Gaius Julius Caesar rather than as Augustus (a debate still ongoing at

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Eric in Language, Literature | February 14, 2013 | 122 Words

Servius on pietas

Servius, in his note on Aeneid 1.10, has a very straightforward, no-frills, useful definition of what it means for Aeneas to be insignem pietate: quia

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Eric in Language, Literature | January 18, 2013 | 123 Words

Huns in Claudian, Germans in Caesar

Late in Book 1 of In Rufinum, Claudian describes the Huns: Est genus extremos* Scythiae vergentis in ortus trans gelidum Tanain, quo non famosius ullu

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Eric in Language, Literature | December 12, 2012 | 329 Words

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