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  • From his earliest years, he applied himself with unremitting assiduity to the cultivation of literature, and, whilst he was yet a boy, wrote a poem, called Glaucus

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • From his earliest years, he applied himself with unremitting assiduity to the cultivation of literature, and, whilst he was yet a boy, wrote a poem, called Glaucus

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • The Glaucus was a translation from the Greek done by a boy, probably as a boy's lesson It is not uncommon that such exercises should be treasured by parents, or perhaps by the performer himself, and not impossible that they should be made to reappear afterward as original compositions.

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

  • The Glaucus was a translation from the Greek done by a boy, probably as a boy's lesson It is not uncommon that such exercises should be treasured by parents, or perhaps by the performer himself, and not impossible that they should be made to reappear afterward as original compositions.

    Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

  • I beg leave to refer the reader to Mr. Kingsley's fascinating "Glaucus," and to the delightful papers which appeared in "Blackwood" a year or two ago.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

  • Telmissis) was a flourishing city west of Lycia, on a bay of the same name (also called Glaucus sinus).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Two thousand Greek mercenaries also joined him, led by their captains Patron and Glaucus.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Steve Reeves, the bodybuilder extraordinaire, gained a reputation as star of a long series of Italian sand-and-sword epics, ably portraying such notables as Hercules, Romulus, Phillipides,Glaucus, and Sandokan.

    Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 3 More Intriguing Factoids From the Sci-Fi/Horror/Mystery Genre! Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2012

  • Two thousand Greek mercenaries also joined him, led by their captains Patron and Glaucus.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Two thousand Greek mercenaries also joined him, led by their captains Patron and Glaucus.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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