Fescennine Verses on the Nuptials of Honorius

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Fescennine Verses on the Nuptials of Honorius

Poet(s)

Claudian

Credits

Translator

Doubleday, Thomas

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 9:52, 387–390, July 1821.

First line

O Prince!—more fair than Venus’ star

Original language

Latin

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included in Translations from the Less Familiar Latin Classics, No. VII. Claudian (385-90) (KF2). Translator attribution: T. D. is the pseudonym in Blackwood’s for Thomas Doubleday. See A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language, edited by T. J. Carty, second edition, Routledge, 2015, p. 406. (AC).

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 9336

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Fescennine Verses on the Nuptials of Honorius