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unusual facts about Longinus


Leonard Welsted

In Swift's 1733 On Poetry: A Rhapsody, he first compared Welsted's bad versifying with Stephen Duck's bad rhymes and then Welsted's "translation" of Longinus's Peri Hupsos, which was actually a translation of Boileau's French translation.


Apsines

# His Τέχνη ῥητορική ("Art of Rhetoric") is a greatly interpolated handbook of rhetoric, a considerable portion being taken from the Rhetoric of Longinus and other material from Hermogenes;

Corsica et Sardinia

C. Cassius Longinus, the lawyer accused of conspiracy by Nero was sent to the province as was Anicentus, murderer of the first Agrippina.

Gaius Cassius Longinus Varus

This Cassius Longinus may have been the father of the more famous Caesar assassin, Gaius Cassius Longinus.

George Grube

George Maximilian Antony Grube (3 August 1899 – 13 December 1982) was a classicist and translator of Plato, Aristotle, Demetrius of Phaleron, Longinus and Marcus Aurelius, as well as a Canadian democratic socialist political activist.

Longinus Podbipięta

Longinus Podbipięta is a fictional character in the novel With Fire and Sword written by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Longinus Tower

It was from the Longinus Tower that, in 1952, Reinhold Holtstiege, transmitted the first public television programmes after World War II.

The Longinus Tower (Longinusturm) is a 32-metre high observation tower located in Nottuln, Germany.

Vampire: The Requiem

They claim the Roman Centurion Longinus as their founder and they believe Kindred (the word vampires use for themselves) have a role in the Divine Providence: that of the ultimate predators.


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