Silius Italicus
1st-century AD Roman senator, orator and poet (26–101)
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5 total works indexed
- The weirdness of belief in free will
· 2021 · cited 28x
- Diversifying Academic Philosophy
· 2020 · cited 27x
- Evaluating the quality of social media in an educational context
· 2011 · cited 24x
- Usefulness of information visualizations based on educational data
· 2014 · cited 21x
- Immorality and bu daode, unculturedness and bu wenming
· 2018 · cited 20x
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Quotes
- “Ordior arma, quibus caelo se gloria tollitAeneadum, patiturque ferox Oenotria iuraCarthago.”
- “Metui demens credebat honorem.”
- “Primus sumpsisse laborem.”
- “Ad limina sanctaecontendit Fidei secretaque pectora temptat.arcanis dea laeta polo tum forte remotocaelicolum magnas uoluebat conscia curas.quam tali adloquitur Nemeae pacator honore:'Ante Iouem generata, decus diuumque hominumque,qua sine non tellus pacem, non aequora norunt,iustitiae consors...'”
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Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus ( Latin: [ˈsiːlijʊs ɪˈt̪alɪkʊs] , c. 26 – c. 101 AD) was a Roman senator, orator and epic poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature. His surviving work is the 17-book Punica, an epic poem about the Second Punic War and the longest surviving poem in Classical Latin at over 12,000 lines.
A painting by Joseph Wright of Derby depicting Silius Italicus at the tomb of Virgil.