His position gave him great power over the economy of the whole country.

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So, that's the whole poem. Humbert is drawing on a nineteenth-century Romantic tradition that still has a certain power.

这就是整首诗，Humbert向我们描绘了19世纪,传统的浪漫，时至今日也仍然受用。

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And this is very important, because the Romans, as their power grew in the East, they simply moved increasingly into the eastern Mediterranean and they adopted the whole Greek system, the Greek world, and they didn't even try to make it non-Greek.

这点非常重要，因为随着罗马人的势力在东方日渐壮大，他们不断朝地中海东部推进,并采取了全套希腊系统，希腊世界，甚至没有作出任何非希腊式的改变。

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Is it a book about the power of poetry and myth, what we would call the whole domain of culture to shape souls and to shape our societies?

这是本关于诗学与神话力量的书吗，即我们所谓形塑灵魂的文化整体范畴,同时亦形塑了我们的社会？

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