In the 'Coma Berenices,' and the poem addressed to Allius, he again writes under the influence of his alexandrian masters.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The conscious enjoyment of Nature as a prominent motive of poetry first appears in the alexandrian era.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
In a twelvemonth's time, sticking close to it in the forenoons, you will get twice through the Pentateuch; for I have done it four times the last year, and am going over it the fifth, collating the Hebrew and two Greek, the alexandrian and the Vatican, with what I can get of Symmachus and Theodotian, etc.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch