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Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors

Note 143 — X. TO HOMER

Mario Emilio Cosenza translation

The famous words from the epitaph of Ennius (Cic., Tusc., i, 34), which Petrarch has here adapted to his purpose by the insertion of the bracketed words, “(Nam) volito vivus (docta) per ora virum” (Frac., III, p. 303).

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