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
Eus., subscr., syn., men., pict., once the property of Achilles Statius, as also was Cod.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
The circumstance that the fires of the Æolian forge were exhausted was doubtless introduced by Statius because in his day the eruptions had ceased in Hiera.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
The great mass of these eager litterateurs have altogether vanished, or remain as mere shadowy names in Martial or Statius or Pliny.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
For if any other Celestial flashes are here meant, they indeed may be more Divine; but they are much more rare, and short, than Those of Statius and Lucan.
From The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Joseph Trapp
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