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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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RUTILIUS NAMATIANUSBut in this digression we have perhaps beengarrulous : let us now resume in verse the voyagewe had set ourselves. On swiftly gliding coursewe bear towards white glittering walls : the sisterwho draws her radiance from the Sun is the bestowerof the city's name." In the colour of its nativerocks it surpasses smiling lilies, <strong>and</strong> the stone flashesbedecked in polished radiance. Rich in marble, it isa l<strong>and</strong> which, revelling in its white light, challengesthe virgin snows." With this alhision to the town of Luna <strong>and</strong> the briefglance at its marble quarries, the poem, as we have it, endsabruptly.829

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