'Tis well-nigh all delusion that the stage gives us. Bards have beheld in poetry dark ghosts in the underworld and the pale realm of Dis amid the ashes of the dead. Bards have sung false lays of Stygian wave and Stygian hound.
• Aetna, 75 (Tr. Duff and Duff)
• Aetna, 75 (Tr. Duff and Duff)
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Plurima pars scaenae rerum est fallacia: vates
sub terris nigros viderunt carmine manes
atque inter cineres Ditis pallentia regna:
mentiti vates Stygias undasque canesque.
— Lucilius Junior
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Plurima pars scaenae rerum est fallacia: vates
sub terris nigros viderunt carmine manes
atque inter cineres Ditis pallentia regna:
mentiti vates Stygias undasque canesque." in the context of "'Tis well-nigh all delusion that the stage gives us. Bards have beheld in poetry dark ghosts in the underworld and the pale realm of Dis amid the ashes of the dead. Bards have sung false lays of Stygian wave and Stygian hound.
• Aetna, 75 (Tr. Duff and Duff)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Lucilius Junior
Lucilius Junior (fl. 1st century) was the procurator of Sicily during the reign of Nero, a friend and correspondent of Seneca, and the possible author of the poem Aetna, which presents a naturalistic account of the origin and nature of volcanism.
About Lucilius Junior
Lucilius Junior (fl. 1st century) was the procurator of Sicily during the reign of Nero, a friend and correspondent of Seneca, and the possible author of the poem Aetna, which presents a naturalistic account of the origin and nature of volcanism.
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