This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...latebras lamasque lutosas, with which he compares these lines from Silius: 352: fraude loci nota, latebrosa per avia saltus; 354: virgulta tegitur valle ac f rondentibus umbris; 371: sed tristis caelo et multa vitiata palude; 376: hoc habitu terrae nemorosa per invia crebro; 380: haud mora: prorumpit latebris. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...latebras lamasque lutosas, with which he compares these lines from Silius: 352: fraude loci nota, latebrosa per avia saltus; 354: virgulta tegitur valle ac f rondentibus umbris; 371: sed tristis caelo et multa vitiata palude; 376: hoc habitu terrae nemorosa per invia crebro; 380: haud mora: prorumpit latebris. Blass suggests (p. 482) that Silius, of whose life very little is known, may have visited Sardinia himself. But this would not explain the similarities between the description found in the Punica and that given by Pausanias, especially as the larger number of these resemblances are in the mythological portions of the account. For these each writer must have been indebted to earlier records, not such as would be preserved in historical sources, for in that case we should see some trace of their influence upon Livy, but such as might be expected to be given in a poetical version, where mythology performs a more important part. It seems very probable, then, that the predecessor to whom both Silius and Pausanias were indebted was Ennius, the annalistic poet, whose personal acquaintance with the island would naturally lead to a description of it. Furthermore the fact that Ennius is mentioned by Silius as a centurion in Sardinia shows that the latter knew of the former's connection with the island, and the fact that the following high tribute is paid to the elder man as a poet adds favor to the assumption that Silius was familiar with his writings and echoed them here as elsewhere, Sil. 12, 405-413: risit nube sedens vani conamina coepti et telum procul in ventos dimisit Apollo ac super his: 'Mmium, iuvenis, nimiumque superbi sperata hausisti. sacer hie ac magna sororum Aonidum cura est et dignus Apolline vates. hic canet illustri primus bella...
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