The language of Homer and of Virgil and of Pindar and of Ovid had become an inextricable part of his literary imagination and of his consciousness in general.

荷马，维吉尔，品达尔和奥维德的语言,成为弥尔顿文学想象还有文学觉悟中,无法摆脱的一部分。

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That means that he has to expel from his system not just Homer, not just Virgil and Dante, but also his better teacher, Edmund Spenser.

这意味着他不得不从那个体系中脱离出来，不仅是荷马，维吉尔和但丁，还有他的良师埃蒙德·斯潘塞。

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The Aeneid of Virgil based, of course,on the Iliad and the Odyssey, begins arma virumque cano, I sing of arms and the man, the man Aeneas.

维吉尔所作的《埃涅伊德》当然是基于,《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》,它以"arma virumque cano" 开头,"我歌颂战事和那个人,埃涅阿斯"

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