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The glaring figures of discourse, the pointed antithesis, the unnatural conceit, the jingle of words; such false ornaments were not employed by early writers; not because they were rejected, but because they scarcely ever occurred to them. * The name of Polynices, one of OEdipus's sons, means in the original "much quarrelling."
His action drags heavily through the first ten books, and then is summarily finished in the last two, the accession of Creon after Oedipus's exile, his prohibition to bury Polynices, the interference of Theseus, and the death of Creon being all dismissed in fifteen hundred lines. The two most striking features in the poem are the descriptions of battles and the similes.
Sylla celebrated his victory at Thebes with spectacles, for which he erected a stage, near Oedipus's well.
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