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Verbal Artistry in Vergil: Sense and Word-Choice in Aeneid 1.483-7

As Aeneas inspects the pictures in Juno’s temple, he sees Hector dragged three times around the walls of Troy by Achilles: Ter circum Iliacos raptaver

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Eric in Language, Literature | October 15, 2012 | 149 Words

Verbal Artistry in Vergil: Alliteration in Aeneid 1:479-82

In Aeneid 1.479ff. we see the Trojans approaching the temple of Athena as depicted in the temple of Juno in Carthage: Interea ad templum non aequae Pa

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Eric in Language, Literature | October 8, 2012 | 142 Words

Verbal Artistry in Vergil: Anaphora in Aeneid 1.421-29

After Venus departs, Aeneas continues on and climbs a hill, from where he can descry the building of Carthage. Vergil writes: Miratur molem Aeneas, ma

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Eric in Language, Literature | October 5, 2012 | 187 Words

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