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Rev_. 1919, 96 IV THE "CIRIS It was at about this same time, 48 B.C., that Vergil began to write the Ciris_, a romantic epyllion which deserves far more attention than it has received, not only as an invaluable document for the history of the poet's early development, but as a poem possessing in some passages at least real artistic merit.

—Vergil A Biography

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THE “CIRIS” It was at about this same time, 48 B.C., that Vergil began to write the Ciris , a romantic epyllion which deserves far more attention than it has received, not only as an invaluable document for the history of the poet's early development, but as a poem possessing in some passages at least real artistic merit. — Vergil
Rev_. 1919, 96 IV THE "CIRIS It was at about this same time, 48 B.C., that Vergil began to write the Ciris_, a romantic epyllion which deserves far more attention than it has received, not only as an invaluable document for the history of the poet's early development, but as a poem possessing in some passages at least real artistic merit. — Vergil A Biography
In the sixty-fourth poem, however, the epyllion which the author of the Ciris clearly had in mind, Catullus used an intricate but by no means balanced form. — Vergil A Biography
Three of these are pieces in hexameter verse, belonging broadly to the class of the _epyllion, _ or — Latin Literature