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Quintus Curtius, Justin (known as Trogus Pompeius), Livy, the two
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Just as Trogus wasps gut the innards of Swallowtail Chrysalids, so, unwarranted adulatory praise eviscerates the meaning from words, leaving empty shells … Netherland contains some beautiful phrasing … it is thickly inked with ‘literary language’ … but this is not enough …
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Just as Trogus wasps gut the innards of Swallowtail Chrysalids, so, unwarranted adulatory praise eviscerates the meaning from words, leaving empty shells … Netherland contains some beautiful phrasing … it is thickly inked with ‘literary language’ … but this is not enough …
Part 2: Netherland, Lyrical Realism, and the flip flops of Zadie Smith 2009
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[5145] Trogus had to the full described and set out King Ptolemy's riot as a chief engine and instrument of his overthrow, he adds, tympanum et tripudium, fiddling and dancing: the king was not a spectator only, but a principal actor himself.
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Trogus calleth them Emperors of the East part of the worlde, Asthoughe they, and the Romaines holding the Weste, had deuided the whole betwixte them.
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This had been revived in Augustus 'time by Trogus and Diodorus, who found in a king three centuries dead a safe whipping-boy for the divine pretensions of the living ruler.
The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972
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For there are men of a certain description who cannot exist without having an enemy, which Trogus Pompeius declares to have been a trait in the character of the ancient Spaniards.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956
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From the Greek authors only a few notices have been preserved, especially by Justin (and in the prologues of Trogus) and Strabo; for the later times we get some information from the Byzantine authors and from
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Livy, Cicero (each mentioned only once), Sallust, and Trogus; but thirteen Latin and twenty Greek authors are mentioned by name.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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NOt onlie Trogus Pompeius the famous Historio - grapher, and Iustine which tooke the Story of him, but also the Greke writers doe sette forthe, as matter of truthe, the valiaunte enterprises of Zopyrus: so that the straunge and mightie facte of him can not seme vncredible,
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