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  • The early part of this poem contains, along with the name Posthumus, many Horatian reminiscences: cp. especially II.

    The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632

  • Yet I could scarcely, like him, have made the second syllable in "Posthumus" long!

    Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

  • Some of the worst occurred in the crucial scene in which devilish Iachimo (Adrian LaTourelle) goads pure-hearted Posthumus (Mark Bedard) into an ill-considered bet over the fidelity of Posthumus's love, Imogen (Gretchen Hall).

    'Cymbeline': A fairy tale without magic Peter Marks 2011

  • Hall's likable Imogen is a city girl amusingly out of her element when she takes to the road for a hopeful reunion in Wales with Posthumus.

    'Cymbeline': A fairy tale without magic Peter Marks 2011

  • I want them to use E.S. Posthumus 'Pompeii for their adverts.

    Ridley Scott Producing Pompeii Mini-Series, Formerly Developed as a Feature by Roman Polanski | /Film 2010

  • Amid the sleepy hills of eastern Thuringia, alongside a dismal restaurant built by the former communist authorities ( "one of those places where the more panoramic the view the worse the food"), he finds the single surviving castle tower that reminds visitors of Heinrich II Posthumus (1572-1635), ruler of "the tiny but fun territory" of Reuss-Gera.

    Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010

  • Amid the sleepy hills of eastern Thuringia, alongside a dismal restaurant built by the former communist authorities ( "one of those places where the more panoramic the view the worse the food"), he finds the single surviving castle tower that reminds visitors of Heinrich II Posthumus (1572-1635), ruler of "the tiny but fun territory" of Reuss-Gera.

    Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010

  • Amid the sleepy hills of eastern Thuringia, alongside a dismal restaurant built by the former communist authorities ( "one of those places where the more panoramic the view the worse the food"), he finds the single surviving castle tower that reminds visitors of Heinrich II Posthumus (1572-1635), ruler of "the tiny but fun territory" of Reuss-Gera.

    Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010

  • Posthumus-van der Goot, W.H. and Anna de Waal, eds.

    Aletta Henriette Jacobs. 2009

  • Posthumus-van der Goot, W.H. Vrouwen vochten voor de vrede.

    Aletta Henriette Jacobs. 2009

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