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Some Aspects of Time in the Punica of Silius Italicus

Malcolm T. V. Wallace

The Classical World. (Nov., 1968) pp. 83-93

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[1071 words] passage, atque, virgil, lines, nunc, ovid, ille, vergil, lucan, line, haec, caput, inter, hinc, ipse, terra, passages, silius, sanguine, quem, illa, ante, omnia, arma, mare, manus, tibi, super, caelum, sidera

[251 words] polybius, livy, romans, hannibal, philip, polyb, treaty, carthage, walbank, flamininus, aetolians, senate, scipio, pyrrhus, embassy, greece, carthaginian, carthaginians, antiochus, rhodes, perseus, macedon, punic, macedonian, holleaux, aetolian, peace, appian, achaean, aratus

[212 words] narrative, events, chapter, section, books, beginning, story, sections, sequence, chapters, begins, follows, passage, composition, theme, structure, digression, followed, lines, opening, introduction, chronological, immediately, treatment, event, division, preceding, arrangement, passages, action

[176 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[142 words] livy, cato, scipio, romulus, fabius, consul, tradition, romans, dionysius, appius, fasti, plutarch, valerius, story, claudius, plebeian, varro, cicero, cornelius, plut, camillus, numa, manlius, aemilius, early, gracchus, consuls, patrician, fulvius, dictator

[103 words] aeneas, vergil, aeneid, virgil, dido, turnus, troy, anchises, trojans, juno, epic, venus, poem, jupiter, trojan, italy, hero, servius, latinus, carthage, poet, episode, mezentius, words, future, simile, books, story, ascanius, lines

[95 words] eius, erat, ante, inter, anno, inde, fuit, milia, livy, apud, annos, usque, urbem, deinde, erant, quoque, urbis, atque, dies, etiam, nunc, bellum, quem, autem, loco, romae, diem, castra, quia, quibus

[86 words] ovid, vergil, virgil, poem, poet, poetry, poets, aeneid, poems, epic, metamorphoses, horace, latin, georgics, catullus, fasti, lucan, works, poetic, culex, heroides, lines, ciris, verse, ovidian, lucretius, literary, verses, tristia, amores

[62 words] speech, words, himself, speaker, audience, lines, situation, scene, action, address, makes, line, speak, asks, addressed, response, begins, take, effect, immediately, reply, comes, your, speaking, speaks, moment, advice, beginning, passage, questions

[62 words] story, king, himself, told, tale, night, city, sent, house, killed, away, having, whom, father, took, home, stories, wife, his_father, version, woman, child, return, dream, his_wife, dead, gave, children, mother, hands

[54 words] language, words, effect, literary, poet, expression, tone, contrast, speech, passages, reader, manner, poetry, himself, rhetorical, passage, dramatic, prose, poetic, uses, technique, lines, characteristic, theme, writing, treatment, makes, serious, kind, familiar

[54 words] caesar, gaul, gallic, gauls, britain, romans, rhine, germans, holmes, ariovistus, celtic, camp, battle, hannibal, rhone, alps, helvetians, tribes, enipeus, keltic, german, stoffel, ferrero, pharsalus, helvetii, germany, orgetorix, dumnorix, pompey, gallia

[53 words] esse, atque, enim, etiam, quid, neque, cicero, eius, nihil, quidem, esset, tamen, nisi, mihi, sibi, quibus, erat, causa, haec, fuit, omnia, modo, quem, autem, omnes, ipse, sine, quis, ille, rerum

[47 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[43 words] army, cavalry, battle, soldiers, military, troops, enemy, infantry, legions, fighting, camp, force, soldier, hoplite, units, phalanx, legion, hoplites, forces, armies, service, warfare, weapons, officers, shields, formation, attack, shield, iuniores, archers

[37 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[35 words] mind, power, true, sense, moral, truth, knowledge, things, idea, ideal, experience, himself, divine, spirit, individual, ideas, natural, conception, expression, reality, real, feeling, vision, attitude, toward, every, intellectual, beauty, something, action

[28 words] senate, imperium, office, consuls, consul, magistrates, mommsen, augustus, provinces, senators, consular, senatorial, praetor, power, elections, tribunes, magistrate, republic, laws, caesar, consulship, election, passed, censors, cicero, powers, senatus, decree, procedure, period

[24 words] tibi, mihi, quid, ovid, nunc, haec, quis, tamen, esse, ille, illa, semper, ipse, erit, sine, quoque, fuit, amor, saepe, nobis, quem, licet, puer, bene, trist, habet, nostra, manus, modo, erat

[23 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[20 words] italy, latin, colonies, colony, italian, towns, town, livy, land, romans, capua, citizenship, latins, italians, pliny, colonia, civitas, campania, ager, roman_citizenship, communities, territory, municipium, colonists, founded, samnites, coloniae, municipia, cities, local

[14 words] statius, hercules, seneca, thyestes, silvae, thebaid, atreus, polynices, theb, octavia, eteocles, tydeus, adrastus, senecan, silv, tragedies, melior, silius, martial, play, jupiter, tantalus, zwierlein, etruscus, epic, duel, phaed, thebes, furens, plays

[13 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[12 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[9 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[8 words] days, month, calendar, months, winter, festival, period, prytany, summer, august, september, chronology, spring, beginning, early, february, began, autumn, meritt, cycle, calendars, november, intercalary, reckoning, pritchett, festivals, ordinary, athenian, count, prytanies

[8 words] homer, homeric, iliad, odyssey, epic, poet, poems, oral, poetry, tradition, parry, poets, poem, similes, traditional, composition, hesiod, formulaic, formula, heroic, poetic, lord, epics, simile, language, oral_poetry, singer, verse, narrative, formulas

[7 words] mommsen, romischen, romische, dazu, untersuchungen, klio, gesch, zeit, meyer, gelzer, stuttgart, beloch, diss, munchen, hermes, studien, ders, siehe, republik, cass, wiesbaden, welt, hrsg, darmstadt, bengtson, augustus, rostovtzeff, roms, kaiserzeit, r6mischen

[7 words] plautus, quid, terence, mihi, tibi, plaut, poen, trin, atque, capt, nunc, phorm, esse, amph, bacch, etiam, pers, merc, truc, quin, neque, haut, pseud, asin, andr, epid, curc, heaut, enim, quom

[7 words] athens, athenian, athenians, thucydides, fleet, ships, persian, battle, herodotus, persians, salamis, spartans, greeks, thuc, spartan, sparta, marathon, samos, diodorus, aegina, allies, themistocles, revolt, sent, naval, island, persia, chios, tissaphernes, victory

[7 words] esse, enim, autem, etiam, haec, tamen, quidem, atque, quia, vero, apud, modo, quibus, quid, quoque, dicitur, neque, nihil, eius, quasi, inter, videtur, igitur, omnia, potest, loco, ergo, nisi, unde, illud

[7 words] word, meaning, sense, words, term, uses, phrase, passage, mean, context, passages, usage, applied, verb, expression, refer, language, refers, meanings, adjective, idea, meant, equivalent, elsewhere, describe, latin, technical, epithet, definition, simply

[7 words] ship, ships, fleet, boat, sail, voyage, harbor, wind, shore, sailing, oars, port, storm, vessels, sailors, harbour, vessel, boats, coast, trireme, hull, triremes, casson, naval, winds, water, cargo, wreck, shipwreck, stern

[6 words] sicily, syracuse, sicilian, dion, diodorus, morgantina, dionysius, timaeus, gela, diod, sybaris, timoleon, dionysios, syracusan, gelon, tyrant, herakleides, foundation, thurii, locri, leontinoi, syracusans, orsi, laqueur, hieron, island, dions, hiero, thourioi, himera

[6 words] cave, river, water, lake, nymphs, villa, cumae, baiae, rivers, shadows, sibyl, spring, waters, grotto, naples, tiber, bauli, ausonius, avernus, misenum, springs, nymph, stream, lucrine, sperlonga, caves, giles, clitumnus, prisoners, simile

[6 words] eyes, thou, your, night, earth, away, heart, thee, blood, forth, love, simile, sleep, beauty, tears, mind, poet, lines, heaven, hands, comes, words, gods, song, water, face, sound, passage, dark, sweet

[5 words] philosophy, literary, works, influence, philosophical, writers, tradition, greeks, intellectual, knowledge, ideas, writings, education, philosophers, poets, political, early, plato, period, wrote, written, romans, authors, writing, historians, attitude, moral, philosopher, poetry, himself

[5 words] caesar, pompey, lucan, antony, octavian, brutus, cicero, appian, cato, civil_war, pollio, suetonius, antonius, caes, augustus, plutarch, cassius, pompeius, cleopatra, suet, curio, pharsalia, plut, julius_caesar, caesars, domitius, plancus, italy, hirtius, actium

[5 words] achilles, iliad, hector, agamemnon, homer, troy, ajax, odysseus, patroclus, priam, homeric, diomedes, trojans, greeks, nestor, battle, hero, trojan, heroes, thetis, poet, menelaus, zeus, achilleus, epic, warrior, achaeans, heroic, fight, hektor

[5 words] horace, odes, poem, poet, maecenas, carm, poetry, stanza, poems, horatian, lyric, fraenkel, augustus, nisbet, lines, stanzas, epode, hubbard, poetic, epistles, horaz, alcaeus, epodes, line, commager, carmen, plancus, bacchus, theme, epist

[5 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness