Statius
Americannoun
noun
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They read of superb little sculptures like the Hercules that the poet Statius insisted Hannibal had admired and that Sulla used for adorning his banquet table.
From Time Magazine Archive
Abascantus,659 the secretary ab epistulis of Domitian’s reign, has also been commemorated by Statius.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
Statius, under the Flavian emperors, wrote several epic poems, of which the Thebaid survives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
Though he died at the early age of forty, we owe to him valuable textual criticisms of Lucretius, Propertius, Ovid, Statius, Ausonius, Celsus, Quintilian, Festus, and Catullus and Tibullus.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
“A life that leads melodious days,” is like that of Vopiscus, in his Tiburtine villa, as described by his friend, Statius, I., iii.,
From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Mrs. Alfred Gatty
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