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In Prudentius' first published work, 'Liber Cathemerinon, we find hymns composed absolutely after the manner of St Ambrose, in the same or in similar metres, but with this difference, the hymns of Prudentius are three, four, and sometimes seven times longer than those of St Ambrose. The Spanish poet did not consider, or he lost sight of, the practical usages of poetry.
And I show more completely, I think, than any other commentator, the analogy between it and the 'Divine Comedy, and how much Dante owed to it.... Then the 'terza rima' was undoubtedly borrowed from the fourth hymn of the 'Cathemerinon."... "You said, I think, that Prudentius was a contemporary of Claudian. Which do you think the greater poet?" "Prudentius by far.
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