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Silius Italicus, Punica, 12.394

nan and his right hand held the vine-staff, the distinguishing badge of the Roman centurion. He came from the rugged land of Calabria, and he was a son of ancient Rudiae — Rudiae which now owes all her fame to this child of hers. He fought in the van; and, even as the Thracian bard long ago dropped his lyre and hurled missiles brought from Rhodope, when Cyzicus made war upon the Argo, so Ennius had made himself conspicuous by slaying many of the enemy, and his ardour in battle grew with the number of his victims. Now, hoping to win everlasting fame by disposing of such a dangerous foe, Hostus flew at Ennius and strongly hurled his spear. But Apollo, seated on a cloud, mocked his fruitless endeavour and sent the weapon wide into the distant air. Then he spoke: "Too insolent, too bold are you: give up your design. That sacred head is dearly loved by the Muses, and he is a bard worthy of Apollo. He shall be the first to sing of Roman wars in noble verse, and shall exalt their commanders to the sky; he shall teach Helicon to repeat the sound of Roman poetry, and he shall equal the sage of Ascra in glory and honour." Thus Phoebus spoke, and Hostus was struck by an avenging arrow which pierced both his temples. Panicstricken by their prince's fall, his soldiers turned and fled, rushing all together from the field. When Hampsagoras heard of his son's death, he was distracted with rage: with hideous yells such as barbarians utter, he stabbed his own heaving breast and hastened to join his son in the nether world. Hannibal meanwhile, beaten by Marcellus and sorely mauled in battle, had abandoned fighting in

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

4 results
1. Horace, Letters, 2.1.50 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
2. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.117-1.126 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Silius Italicus, Punica, 7.1, 7.5-7.8, 7.120-7.122, 7.565, 7.684-7.686, 7.735, 7.746-7.750, 8.593-8.594, 12.408-12.413, 13.791 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
4. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 1.369 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
achilles	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
aeneas	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
apollonius rhodius	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 306
ennius, model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 17
ennius, standing in antiquity	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 17
ennius	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
fabius maximus, intertextual characterization of	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
hannibal, intertextual characterization of	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
hannibal	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 306
hesiod	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 306
homer, doloneia in	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
homer, model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 17
laelius	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
mago	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
mantua	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
naevius	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 306
nestor	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
odysseus	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
pompilius	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 17
punic wars, second	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252, 291, 306
scipio africanus, and achilles	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 291
scipio africanus, imitatio of alexander the great by	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 291, 306
scipio africanus, katabasis of	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 291
scipio africanus, meeting with homer	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 291
scipio africanus, meeting with virtus and voluptas	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 306
scipio africanus	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
sibyl	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 291
silius italicus, and cicero	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 306
silius italicus, and ennius	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 291, 306
silius italicus, and homer	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252, 291, 306
silius italicus, and lucretius	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 291, 306
silius italicus, and the tradition on kingship	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 306
silius italicus, and virgil	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 291
silius italicus, as pro-domitianic poet	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
silius italicus, nekyia in	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 291, 306
silius italicus, window references to other poets in	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
silius italicus	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 17
turnus	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 252
underworld'	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 291
underworld	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 306