
Episode CXIX - Fragments of Early Roman Literature
Emperors of Rome
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How Much Til Survives?
Aeneas was the first to write latin in hexameter. He got rid of this italic mete, the saturnian that the previous two had written n for their epics. The famous edition by ottoscutch has around four n secure fragments which can range from 10-15 lines long or just one word here or there. These fragments can either be quotations, or they can be allusions by subsequent writers.
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