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European Languages and Societies

Western Michigan University

2020

Latin

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From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler Dec 2020

From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler

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"From the Villa" is an epistolary poem in hexameters whose argument is loosely based on the Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. It is addressed to Lucretius's putative dedicatee/patron Gaius Memmius, a contemporary politician and poet.

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