 The epithet Phrygia is here requisite to the sense, and a prose writer describing the circumstance would have used it, or its less poetical synonyme Trojana. But in " Carmina tantum Nostra valent tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt, aquila veniente,...  A grammar of Latin poetry - Seite 41von Edward Walford - 1854 - 48 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...circumstance would have used it, or its less poetical synonyme Trojana. But in " Carmina nostra valent, Lycida tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt aquila...Chaonias may be omitted without detriment to the meaning. Nova progenies coelo demittitur alto, Eel. iv. 6. — here the epithet alto is ornamental ; in prose... | |
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