The poem is based most closely on Virgil's Tenth Eclogue.

这首诗取材于维吉尔的《牧歌》第十首。

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His view is much, if not most, of what we are told about the Homeric world comes, as he says, in the tenth and in the ninth centuries.

他关于《荷马史诗》中世界的观点,正如他说的,即使不是大部分,也有许多,是得自于第九和第十世纪的某些观点

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