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Minor Latin Poets, LCL 484: Minor Latin Poets II
Minor Latin Poets

Number of quotes: 15


Book ID: 153 Page: 565

Section: 2B1

Chapter IV

Pastor John’s Note: Early 300‘s Tiberianus lived

Almighty Being, to whom heaven’s age, ancient of years, showeth reverence, . . .

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. . . yet even in name unknown thou hast thy hallowed joy, when mightiest earth shuddereth and wandering constellations stay their rapid courses. Thou art alone, yet in thyself many, thou art first and likewise last, and midway in time withal, outliving the world. For without end for thyself, thou bringest the gliding seasons to an end.

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Thou art the whole kindred of the gods, thou art the cause and energy of things, thou art all nature, one god beyond reckoning, thou art full of the whole of sex, for thee cometh to birth upon a day here a god, here a world - this home of men and gods - lucent, starred with the majestic bloom of youth.

Quote ID: 3266

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 153 Page: 621

Section: 2A4

Cato

Book IV Line 38

Spare calves to plough: heaven’s grace with incense gain:

Think not God loves the blood of victims slain.

Pastor John’s Note: See Introduction. These have been tampered with by Xns.

Quote ID: 3267

Time Periods: 0


Book ID: 153 Page: 643

Section: 2E6

Introduction to Phoenix

The earliest reference traceable is one in Hesiod to the bird’s longevity. Herodotus’ contact with Egypt impelled him to mention the story of its re-emergence at Heliopolis every 500 years - . . .

Quote ID: 3268

Time Periods: 0


Book ID: 153 Page: 644

Section: 2E6

Introduction to Phoenix

Ovid fitted the description of the nest into the last book of his Metamorphases: . . .

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Pliny in his Natural History touches with considerable minuteness upon the bird’s nest of spices, its habits, and the growth of its offspring.

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Claudian, not only in an elaborate simile of half a dozen lines in his De Consulatus Stilichonis, but also in the 110 hexameters which he almost certainly modelled upon our extant elegiac Phoenix. This is most commonly ascribed to Lactantius, the pupil of Arnobius in oratory, who was professor of rhetoric at Nicomedia early in the fourth century and who later in the West became the instructor of Prince Crispus by the invitation of Constantine. As his conversion from paganism did not divorce him from ancient culture, Lactantius attained distinction among early Christian authors for the beauty and eloquence of his Latin style.

Quote ID: 3269

Time Periods: 014


Book ID: 153 Page: 663

Section: 2B2

Phoenix

Line 139-140

All over the head is fitted a crown of rays, in lofty likeness to the glory of the Sun-god’s head.

Quote ID: 3271

Time Periods: 34


Book ID: 153 Page: 769

Section: 2D2

Rutilius Namatianus (see below)

Title of work: A Voyage Home to Gaul Book I

Line 47-50

“Listen, O fairest queen of thy world, Rome, welcomed amid the starry skies, listen, thou mother {a} of men and mother of gods, thanks to thy temples we are not far from heaven:

Quote ID: 3272

Time Periods: 5


Book ID: 153 Page: 769

Section: 2B,2B2

Rutilius Namatianus note - “the last of the classical Latin poets” c.400

A Voyage Home to Gaul Book I

Line 57-58

For thee the very Son-God who holdeth all together doth revolve: his steeds that rise in thy domains he puts in thy domains to rest.

Quote ID: 3273

Time Periods: 25


Book ID: 153 Page: 769

Section: 2E3

Rutilius Namatianus

A Voyage Home to Gaul Book I

Line 65

. . . thou hast made a city of what was erstwhile a world.

Quote ID: 3274

Time Periods: 5


Book ID: 153 Page: 771

Section: 1B,2E3

Rutilius Namatianus

A Voyage Home to Gaul Book I

Line 79-80

Thee, O goddess, thee every nook of the Roman dominion celebrates, beneath a peaceful yoke holding necks unenslaved.

Quote ID: 3275

Time Periods: 15


Book ID: 153 Page: 771

Section: 1B,2E3

Rutilius Namatianus

A Voyage Home to Gaul Book I

Line 89-90

By wars for justifiable cause and peace imposed without arrogance thy renowned glory reached highest wealth.

Quote ID: 3276

Time Periods: 15


Book ID: 153 Page: 775

Section: 1B,2E3

Rutilius Namatianus

A Voyage Home to Gaul Book I

Line 139-140

That same thing builds thee up which wrecks all other realms: the law of thy new birth is the power to thrive upon thine ills.

Quote ID: 3277

Time Periods: 17


Book ID: 153 Page: 799

Section: 4B

Rutilius Namatianus

A Voyage Home to Gaul Book I

Line 387-391 and 395-398

We pay the abuse due to the filthy race that infamously practises circumcision: a root of silliness they are: chill Sabbaths are after their own heart, yet their heart is chillier than their creed. Each seventh day is condemned to ignoble sloth,

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And would that Judaea had never been subdued by Pompey’s wars and Titus’ military power.{d} The infection of this plague, though excised, still creeps abroad the more: and ‘tis their own conquerors that a conquered race keeps down.{e}

Quote ID: 3278

Time Periods: 5


Book ID: 153 Page: 809

Section: 5D

Rutilius Namatianus

A Voyage Home to Gaul Book I

Line 491

How oft the fount of blessings springs from ills!{a}

Quote ID: 3279

Time Periods: ?


Book ID: 153 Page: 811

Section: 2E2

Rutilius Namatianus

A Voyage Home to Gaul Book I

Line 519-526

For lately one of our youths of high descent, with wealth to match, and marriage-alliance equal to his birth, was impelled by madness to forsake mankind and the world, and made his way, a superstitious exile, to a dishonourable hiding-place. Fancying, poor wretch, that the divine can be nurtured in unwashen filth, he was himself to his own body a crueller tyrant than the offended deities. Sure, I ask, this sect is not less powerful than the drugs of Circe? In her days men’s bodies were transformed, now ‘tis their minds’.

Quote ID: 3280

Time Periods: 5


Book ID: 153 Page: 827

Section: 5D

Rutilius Namatianus

A Voyage Home to Gaul Book 2

Line 55-60

But it was Stilicho’s will to hurl to ruin the eternal empire’s fate-fraught pledges and distaffs still charged with destinies. Let every torment of Nero in Tartarus now halt; let an even more miserable ghost consume the Stygian torches. Stilicho’s victim was immortal, Nero’s was mortal; the one destroyed the world’s mother, the other his own.

Quote ID: 3281

Time Periods: ?



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