Statius

If Pope had really the proficiency here ascribed to him, he must have had it already in his boyish years; for the translation from Statius, which is the principal monument of his skill, was executed _before_ he was fourteen.

Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

Pope, in his turn, put the juvenile version of "Statius" into his hands for correction.

Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891

Pope, in his turn, put the juvenile version of "Statius" into his hands for correction.

Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson 1746

Certainly if the aphorism said to occur in the poems of Statius

The Defense Apuleius 2008

Certainly if the aphorism said to occur in the poems of Statius

The Defense Apuleius 2008

Teresa Hankey's 'Dante and Statius' (pp. 37-50, though I'm unconvinced) and Peter Hainsworth's excellent 'Dante and Monte Andrea' (pp. 153-177, and I am convinced).

Archive 2008-02-01 Miglior acque 2008

Teresa Hankey's 'Dante and Statius' (pp. 37-50, though I'm unconvinced) and Peter Hainsworth's excellent 'Dante and Monte Andrea' (pp. 153-177, and I am convinced).

Dante and the Church & Dante and His Literary Precursors, Four Courts, 2007 Miglior acque 2008

Martial have lavished bitter scorn upon this form of degradation, and Suetonius and Statius inform us that Domitian prohibited the practice, but it is in the "Amoures" attributed to Lucian that we find a passage so closely akin to the one forming a basis of this note, that it is inserted in extenso:

Satyricon 2007

Obviously, this clumsy sentence would never be mistaken for Vergil, or even Statius.

Crappy Latin 2007

Obviously, this clumsy sentence would never be mistaken for Vergil, or even Statius.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007