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The attention given to the acoustic arrangements of the Greeks may be inferred from Vitruv. v. 5, 8. H. N. xxxv. 4, 23; Val. Among the few minor poems preserved from this epoch there occurs the following epigram on this illustrious actor: -Constiteram, exorientem Auroram forte salutans, Cum subito a laeva Roscius exoritur.
It is on the actor Roscius, who, when a boy, was renowned for his beauty, and is favourably compared with the rising orb of day: "Constiteram exorientem Auroram forte salutans, Cum subito e laeva Roscius exoritur. Pace mihi liceat, caelestes, dicere vestra: Mortalis visust pulcrior esse deo." This piece, as may be supposed, has met with imitators both in French and Italian literature.
The attention given to the acoustic arrangements of the Greeks may be inferred from Vitruv. v. 5, 8. H. N. xxxv. 4, 23; Val. Among the few minor poems preserved from this epoch there occurs the following epigram on this illustrious actor: -Constiteram, exorientem Auroram forte salutans, Cum subito a laeva Roscius exoritur.
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age. "Eurus ad Auroram Nabathaeaque regna recessit, Persidaque, et radiis juga subdita matutinis." "The East-Wind withdrew to Aurora and the Nabathean kingdom, And the Persian, and the ridges placed under the morning rays. ....... Man was born.
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