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 1    I, 5 |             and to this opinion our poet has assented: "Then almighty
 2    I, 11|       without humour that a certain poet wrote of the triumph of
 3    I, 11|           elegantly pictured by the poet, but it is not far removed
 4    I, 11|        wicked lusts, is not, as the poet feigned, in subjection to
 5    I, 11|              or be believed, as the poet says, to be the author of
 6    I, 11|           it is the business of the poet with some gracefulness to
 7    I, 11|       deceitful rather than to be a poet. But grant that they reigned
 8    I, 13|            side a ship; as the same poet adds:--~"But pious posterity
 9    I, 13|             beneath his reign."~The poet did not say in the former
10    I, 18|            O Africanus, or rather O poet, in that you imagined the
11    I, 19|             only God. The excellent poet exclaims, that all those
12    I, 20|           and abundant blossom. The poet followed up this idea in
13    I, 21|       sacred offerings, as the same poet says: "Then also a virgin
14    I, 21|            escape the notice of the poet himself; for he represents
15    I, 21| preservation of her purity? But the poet invented a fable. But was
16    I, 22|         things are fictitious." The poet, indeed, compares foolish
17   II, 1 |            Creator. As an ingenious poet s has well represented it:--~"
18   II, 3 |            And that philosopher and poet severely accuses those men
19   II, 4 |           In short, that very great poet, a man of sagacity in other
20   II, 4 |         displayed folly, not like a poet, but after the manner of
21   II, 7 |              Propertius the elegiac poet thus speaks:--~"The trumpet
22  III, 4 |            himself, as the renowned poet testifies; for the nature
23  III, 8 |            does that most excellent poet say that we must try "what
24  III, 14|             he may be pardoned as a poet. But that same accomplished
25  III, 17|              And thus the most vain poet, I do not say adorned, but
26   IV, 10|          more truly be said (as the poet says), that "the wave, closing
27    V, 5 |              And this saying of the poet ought so to be taken, not
28    V, 9 |             produce hatred,"~as the poet says, as though inspired
29    V, 10|            hero himself, but of the poet, who polluted with distinguished
30    V, 10|           his piety." Where then, O poet, is that piety which you
31   VI, 2 |             with smoke, but (as the poet says) clear and bright;
32   VI, 5 |        these definitions, which the poet briefly puts together, Marcus
33   VI, 6 |       nature or what it is; for the poet, and all those whom he followed,
34   VI, 11|            misery."~But perhaps the poet spoke for the actor.~What
35  VII, 1 |        incitements of lusts, as the poet says,~"Rush into madness
36  VII, 20|            is thus expressed by the poet:--~Nay, when at last the
37  VII, 20|           the body, is, as the same poet says, such as~"No vision
38  VII, 24|            lions."~Which things the poet foretold according to the