The elegiac poets of the Augustan age, while borrowing the metre of their compositions from the early poets of ionia and the later writers at the court of Alexandria, have taken the substance of their poetry to a great extent from their own lives and interests; and have treated their materials with a fluent and varied brilliancy of style, and often with a graceful tenderness and sincerity of feeling, unborrowed from any foreign source.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
We can well imagine that the young Greek, fresh from the schools of ionia, was a livelier companion at dinner than the proud Roman man of letters who snatched the dole and disdained himself for receiving it.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The oracular seats of ionia showed an unenvious admiration of his gift of prophecy, and hailed him as a true son of Apollo.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill