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Thus on one occasion he is led into this error from the desire to express a poetical idea by a poetical word: just as Statius writes "distinctus" in the sense that his predecessors of ages before had used "distinctio": "Viridis quum regula longo Synnada distinctu variat:" Sylv. "penna/rum a cete/ris avi/bus di/versum."
I. The poetic diction of Tacitus, and its fabrication in the Annals. II. Florid passages in the Annals. III. Metrical composition of Bracciolini. VI. The language of other Roman writers, Livy, Quintus Curtius and Sallust. VII. The phrase "non modo ... sed", and other anomalous expressions, not Tacitus's. VIII. Words not used by Tacitus, distinctus and codicillus.
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