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Latin writers (“Cato,” Avienus), and old Christian poets
Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968
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= For the construction compare _Met_ IX 661 'sub aduentu _spirantis lene_ Fauoni' and Avienus _Descr Orb_ 847 'uel qua
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Eustathius and the Latin paraphrases of Avienus and Priscian.
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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Avienus was a pagan and a staunch supporter of the old religion.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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And Macrobius says, that when a ring fell from the little finger of Avienus 'right hand, those who were present asked why he placed it upon the wrong hand and finger, not on those which had been set apart for this use.
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_Borysthenidas_ ', Avienus _Descr Orb_ 448' inde _Borysthenii_ uis sese
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Avienus, who had, two years before, worn the robes of consul, was one of the ambassadors.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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Avienus possessed charming elegance and rather effeminate grace.
Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881
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Avienus, also a contemporary of Ausonius, put some of these fables into Latin elegiacs, which are given by Nevelet (in a book we shall refer to hereafter), and are occasionally incorporated with the editions of Phaedrus.
Fables Aesop 1880
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It also contained the Latin versions of the same fables by Phaedrus, Avienus, and other authors.
Fables Aesop 1880
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