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The next verse is extremely beautiful Blest satirist In this distich is another line of which Pope was not the author.— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
A war is undertaken for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.— Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson
', Met V 559 'optastis facilesque deos habuistis', Tr IV i 53 'sint precor hae [the Muses] saltem faciles mihi', EP II ii 19-20 'esse ... fateor ... difficilem precibus te quoque iure meis', Her XVI 282 'sic habeas faciles in tua uota deos_', and Grattius 426 31-32.= The asyndeton in this distich is odd, given the preceding series of connectives.— The Last Poems of Ovid
SCRIPTA FERVNT ANNOS.= The phrase completes the sentence begun in the previous distich, as is shown by the parallel passages Am I x 61-62 'scindentur uestes, gemmae frangentur et aurum; / carmina quam tribuent, fama perennis erit_' and Am I xv 31-32 'ergo cum silices, cum dens patientis aratri / depereant aeuo, carmina morte carent 51.— The Last Poems of Ovid
If the distich is excised (as Professor R. J. Tarrant suggests) 113-14 round out the paragraph that began with 105 (note the correspondence of uidet hospita terra in 105 with testis Pontica terra in 114), and 117 introduces hospites as a second class of witnesses 118.— The Last Poems of Ovid

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