The Loeb Classical Library: Letters : Books 3–9

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The Loeb Classical Library: Letters : Books 3–9Sidonius Apollinaris, a Gallo Roman, was born at Lugdunum (Lyon) about AD 430. He married Papianilla, daughter of the Emperor Avitus in whose honor he recited at Rome on 1 January 456 a panegyric in verse. Sidonius later joined a rebellion, it seems, but was finally reconciled to the emperor Majorian and delivered at Lyon in 458 a panegyric on him. After some years in his native land, in 467 he led a Gallo Roman deputation to the Emperor Anthemius,

An extensive introduction discusses the Danaid myth and its many variations

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Cicero scores his points with wit but also with searing invective directed at a supporter of the prosecution

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His political rival Pompey was at the height of his popularity in Rome

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The patriarch of the family lies dead in an inexplicably large pool of blood