Persius
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Department spokesman John Pepin says at-risk insects living in the sprayed areas include the Mitchell’s satyr, the Silphium borer moth and Persius duskywing butterfly.
From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2019
The successor, and, so far as in him lay, the sincere imitator of Horace, was Aulus Persius Flaccus.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus
The language of Lucan, Persius, and Juvenal still breathed the same spirit in the deadening atmosphere of the Empire.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
Persius, accordingly, following his early bent, as soon as he arrived at man's estate, placed himself under the care and instruction of Cornutus, a Stoic philosopher.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus
Like Juvenal and Persius, he did not spare the knife, although he knew that every thrust only made his enemies more bitter and his own position more uncomfortable.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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