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Here too Horace presents us with a compromise: the poet needs both (Ad Pisones 408ff.).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968
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'Pisones Senecasque Memmiosque et Crispos mihi redde sed priores.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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In his _Ad Pisones_ occur the passages, in which we find mingled with the poetic function, that of the orator -- the practical and the aesthetic.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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It is nevertheless true, as appears from Dr. Hurd the Bishop of Worcester's very elegant commentary and notes on the 'Epistola ad Pisones.'
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Sallust, he would have drawn a juster picture of Caesar; and if he had read Horace "Ad Pisones," he would have made a better Achilles.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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Ars Poetica, the whilk Mr Graham says is no its richt name ava, but jist Epistola ad Pisones; for gien they bude to gie 't anither it sud ha 'been Ars Dramatica.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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Criticism 'no more aims at unfolding the grounds and theory of critical rules applied to poetic composition, than does the _Epistola ad Pisones_ of Horace.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Epistle 'Ad Pisones, De Arte Poeticâ'; and intended as a sequel to
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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It is nevertheless true, as appears from Dr. Hurd the Bishop of Worcester's very elegant commentary and notes on the '_Epistola ad Pisones_.'
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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Epistol. ad Pisones, 285, and the learned, though perplexed note of Dacier, who might have allowed the name of tragedies to the Brutus and the Decius of Pacuvius, or to the Cato of Maternus.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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