Word: victrix
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other pieces are "Venus Victa" and "The Message." The former is not as successful an effort as the "Venus Victrix" of the same author, and in this, perhaps, lies its chief fault. It should have come first and so prevented the disappointment we must feel on comparing the two. "The Message" is scarcely up to the usual standard of the Monthly, though it is a fair bit of verse, and, coming as it does from a new contributor, gives promise of better work in the future...
...Catullus were alive to-day he would read "Venus Victrix" with pure delight and perhaps with no little surprise at finding that his spirit lives on in this cold, material nineteenth century. A more admirable piece of verse has not appeared in college papers for a long time...