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O Spartan youths what fascinating charms

DMI number:
8382
First Line:
O Spartan youths what fascinating charms
Last Line:
Admire him living and when dead adore
Poem Genre / Form:
Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Couplet
Themes:
War
Related People
Author:
John Hughes
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Chalmers (1810) X: 32-33.
Translated from:
Tyrtaeus
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
Original poems and translations by several hands [N25731]
Page No(s):
pp.267-269
Poem Title:
The Praises of Heroick Virtue. From the Fragments of Tyrtaeus. Inscrib'd to General Stanhope.
Attribution:
By the Same Hand [i.e. Hughes]
Attributed To:
John Hughes
Title:
Poems and translations by several hands [T63452]
Page No(s):
pp.267-269
Poem Title:
The Praises of Heroick Virtue. From the Fragments of Tyrtaeus. Inscrib'd to General Stanhope.
Attribution:
By the Same Hand [i.e. Hughes]
Attributed To:
John Hughes