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Statius: Information From Answers.com (1992 words) |
 | Statius is at his best in his occasional verses, the Silvae, which have a character of their own, and in their best parts a charm of their own. |
| Statius prided himself on his powers of improvisation, and he seems to have been quite equal to the feat, which Horace describes, of dictating two hundred lines in an hour while standing on one leg. |
| Statius seems to have felt a special pride in this class of his productions; and certainly, notwithstanding the excessive and conventional employment of pretty mythological pictures, with other affectations, he sounds notes of pathos such as only come from the true poet. |
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| But there are also contributions by other natural history collections made by P. Muller, D. Schadeloock, Knorr himself and others. |
| An extensive list of references to naturalists of the 16th-18th century is given, including Linnaeus, but his system is not followed. |
| The “Deliciae Natureae Selectae” was published in German in 1766 to 1767 and translated into Dutch in 1771 by P.L.S. Muller. |
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