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    Ennius opened his epic with a recollection of a dream in which the ancient epic-writer Homer informed him that his spirit had been reborn into Ennius...
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  • known about the origins of Ennius, however he may have been originally from the Roman province of Creta et Cyrenaica. Ennius was a member of the gens Ennia...
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  • Romans whom the poet admired—that Ennius penned the sixteenth book. According to Suerbaum and Eck, it is likely that Ennius drew mostly on Greek records when...
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  • JSTOR 20190914. Ennius, Quintus (2018). Goldberg, Sander M.; Manuwald, Gesine (eds.). Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume I: Ennius, Testimonia. Epic...
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  • national character of his literary work. Had he been a semi-Graecus, like Ennius and Pacuvius, or of humble origin, like Plautus, Terence or Accius, he would...
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  • 2022) Ennius ap. Prisc. p. 842 P. (Ann. v. 452 Vahl.) Ennius, Annales 1.31. Raven (1965), p. 95. Ennius, Varia 14V. Raven (1965), p. 99. Ennius Annales...
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  • schools amicus certus in re incerta a sure friend in an unsure matter From Ennius, as quoted by Cicero in Laelius de Amicitia, s. 64 amicus curiae friend...
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    called Ennius, who had a whole statue on the hypogeum façade according to Livy, but this attribution is incorrect, since the sources state that Ennius's statue...
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    hills, which has been tentatively identified with Ennius' Mons Murcus. Skutsch (1961) regards Ennius' variant as the most likely, with Romulus's Palatine...
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    apparently in the Porticus Deorum Consentium. The gods were listed by the poet Ennius in the late 3rd century BCE in a paraphrase of an unknown Greek poet: Juno...
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  • known child of Lucius Ennius from his unnamed wife, and perhaps had a brother called Lucius Ennius who was the father of Lucius Ennius Ferox, a Roman soldier...
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    final month be devoted to him and the spirits of the dead. The Roman poet Ennius gives the Roman equivalents (the Dii Consentes) as six male-female complements...
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    within its limits. The place was identified as the former home of the poet Ennius by Antonio de Ferraris, a Renaissance Humanist who was from the region....
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    (thrēnos) upon the return of Hector's body (24.703–804). In a fragment of Ennius' Andromacha, quoted by Cicero in the Tusculan Disputations (3.44-46), Andromacha...
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  • individual, Quintus Ennius, a soldier, dramatist, and poet, whom the Romans came to regard as the father of their literature. Ennius was born at Rudiae...
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    the growing ascendancy of Ennius, the life of Naevius must have been prolonged considerably beyond 204, the year in which Ennius began his career as an author...
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  • (129 BC) is more likely, as the first (178–7) had already been treated by Ennius in his Annales. Only seven fragments of Hostius' poem survive, but it was...
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  • pupil of Ennius, by whom Roman tragedy was first raised to a position of influence and dignity. In the interval between the death of Ennius (169 BC) and...
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    like Ennius (by extension Virgil, who follows him in both time and technique) preserve something of the Saturnian aesthetic in hexameter verse. Ennius explicitly...
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    which Plouton is distinguished from the gloomier Hades. The Roman poet Ennius (ca. 239–169 BC), the leading figure in the Hellenization of Latin literature...
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  • remarkable production in the domain of narrative epic poetry between the time of Ennius and that of Vergil”. Of Varro's fragments, the epigram on "The Tombs of...
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  • untranslated in English in various contexts. Annales (Ennius), an epic poem by Quintus Ennius covering Roman history from the fall of Troy down to the...
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    from the toponym Hispania is attested in one of the five fragments, of Ennius in 236 BC who wrote "Hispane, non Romane memoretis loqui me" ("Remember...
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    reported by Servius, Ennius claimed to descend from Messapus, the eponymous legendary founder of Messapia, which may suggest that Ennius' third "heart" and...
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