Word: homounius
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Dates: during 1893-1893
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...Sargent was by no means homounius libri, a man of a single book, but few scholars have shown more devotion to a chosen author than he has manifested to his beloved Horace. That classic writer was always a favorite of the learned. The perfection of his style, the admirable truth and discrimination of his critical judgment, the charming companionable familiarity of his Odes, the thoroughly human feeling which pervades them, qualified by the sensitive fastidiousness inseparable from the highest cultivation, - fit him for the scholar's intimate and the student's guide. Few could appreciate these excellences so fully...
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