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Born c.15 BCE • Thrace
Died 50 • Italy
Notable Works “Romulus”
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
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Marc-Antoine de Muret
French author
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Marble bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero, shown with short hair and draped clothing, displayed against a black background.
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Ancient Roman mosaic showing the poet Virgil seated and writing, flanked by the muses Clio and Melpomene, displayed in a decorative border.
Virgil
Roman poet
Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
Catullus
Roman poet
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Sextus Propertius
Roman poet
Lucretius
Lucretius
Latin poet and philosopher
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Martial
Roman poet
Juvenal
Juvenal
Roman poet
St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose
bishop of Milan
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Albius Tibullus
Roman poet
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Lucius Apuleius
Roman philosopher and scholar
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Quintus Ennius
Roman author
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Calpurnius Siculus
Roman poet
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Lucan
Roman author
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Statius
Roman poet
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Magnus Felix Ennodius
Italian bishop and writer
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Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Latin poet and rhetorician

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