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  • Like a sop, I must throw him some sort of a poem, in spite of unwilling Camenae.

    Sagittulae, Random Verses Edward Woodley Bowling

  • Ite hinc Camenae; vos quoque ite jam sane dulces Camenae (nam fatebimur verum, dulces fuistis): et tamen meas chartas revisitote, sed pudenter et raro.

    Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

  • In the epitaph which he composed for himself Naevius says that ‘the Camenae’, the native Italian muses, might well mourn his death, ‘for at Rome men have forgotten to speak in Latin phrase’.

    Introduction 1912

  • Stesichoriue graues Camenae: nec siquid olim lusit Anacreon deleuit aetas; spirat adhuc amor10

    Song Makes Immortal Horace 1912

  • IMMORTALES motales si foret fas flere, flerent diuae Camenae Naeuium poetam. itaque, postquam est Orchi traditus thesauro, obliti sunt Romai loquier lingua Latina.

    His Own Epitaph 1912

  • [14] If immortals might weep for mortals, the divine Camenae would weep for Naevius the poet; thus it is that now he has been delivered into the treasure-house of Orcus, men have forgotten at Rome how to speak the Latin tongue.

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • Camenae, prophetic nymphs, belonging to the religion of ancient

    The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • Camenae, prophetic nymphs, belonging to the religion of ancient

    Legends of Charlemagne Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • Camenae, prophetic nymphs, belonging to the religion of ancient

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • Camenae, prophetic nymphs, belonging to the religion of ancient

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

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