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Brewer's: Cento
Poetry made up of lines borrowed from established authors. Ausonius has a nuptial idyll composed from verses selected from Virgil. (Latin, cento, patchwork.) The best known are the…Brewer's: Corinth's Pedagogue
Dionysios the younger, on being banished a second time from Syracuse, went to Corinth and became schoolmaster. He is called Dionysios the tyrant. Hence Lord Byron says of Napoleon- Corinth…Brewer's: Dionysius
(the younger) being banished a second time from Syracuse, retired to Corinth, where he turned schoolmaster for a living. Posterity called him a tyrant. Byron, in his Ode to Napoleon,…Brewer's: Divus
in Latin, attached to a proper name, does not mean divine, but simply deceased or canonised; excellently translated in Notes and Queries (May 21st, 1892, p. 421), “of blessed memory.” Thus…Brewer's: Anathema
A denunciation or curse. The word is Greek, and means to place, or set up, in allusion to the mythological custom of hanging in the temple of a patron god something devoted to him. Thus…Brewer's: Angelo and Raffaelle
Michael Angelo criticised Raffaelle very severely. Such was the language of this false Italian [Angelo]: One time he christened Raphael a Pygmalion, Swore that his maidens were composed of…Brewer's: Cupid
The god of love, and son of Venus. According to fable he wets with blood the grindstone on which he sharpens his arrows. Ferus et Cupido Semper ardentes acuens sagittas.' Horace: 2 Odes,…Brewer's: Mareotic Luxury
The Arva Mareotica mentioned by Ovid (Metamorphoses, ix. 73) produced the white grapes, from which was made the favourite beverage of Cleopatra, and mention of which is made both by Horace…Brewer's: Saliens
(The). A college of twelve priests of Mars instituted by Numa. The tale is that a shield fell from heaven, and the nymph Egeria predicted that wherever that shield was preserved the people…Brewer's: Sapphics
A Greek and Latin metre, so named from Sappho, the inventor. Horace always writes this metre in four-line stanzas, the last being an Adonic. There must be a caesura at the fifth foot of…Trending
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