• The Laus Pisonis (Praise of Piso) is a Latin verse panegyric of the 1st century AD in praise of a man of the Piso family. The exact identity of the subject...
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  • Theocritus. The Laus Pisonis exhibits a striking similarity with Calpurnius's eclogues in metre, language, and subject-matter. The author of the Laus is young...
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    declensions. An account of a game of latrunculi is given in the 1st-century AD Laus Pisonis: When you are weary with the weight of your studies, if perhaps you are...
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    "Deipnosophists", 1.14-15 P.N.Singer, "Galen: Selected Works" (1997), pages 299-304 Laus Pisonis, verses 185-187 (translated by J.W. & A.M.Duff). Julius Pollux, "Onomasticon"...
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    меценат. The eponym has been in use since at least the composition of Laus Pisonis ("Praise of Piso") by an unknown author in the first century CE. Edmund...
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    Julius Caesar and Pompey Often attributed to him (but to others as well): Laus Pisonis (Praise of Piso), a panegyric of a member of the Piso family Lost works:...
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  • in every 100 lines. The high percentage of golden lines found in the Laus Pisonis and other works of the Neronian period has led some scholars to claim...
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  • of 500,000 sesterces. Nothing from his works has been preserved; the Laus Pisonis, which has been attributed to him, is probably by Lucan or Titus Calpurnius...
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    which is mostly lost today, but can still be seen in works such as the Laus Pisonis and the Elegiae in Maecenatem. Catullus and his collection of polymetric...
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    Publilius Syrus. Elegies on Maecenas. Grattius. Calpurnius Siculus. Laus Pisonis. Einsiedeln Eclogues. Aetna L434) Minor Latin Poets: Volume II. Florus...
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