For instance, Lyell and Murchison both visited Italy to confer with local geologists and see Italian outcrops. Nor is it a stretch of interpretation to suggest that this may have been proposed as a retaliatory response to the burning of Christian books during the Great Persecution. Herodotus was not well known in the West in late antiquity, but he is cited by name by Ausonius Epist. Among the next gen- eration of poets, Sedulius definitely took Prudentius as a model; likewise, Prosper of Aquitaine responds to the Psychomachia and to Prudentius in general, especially in Liber epigrammatum 95, 86, and Is there any evidence for revisions authorial or not in these early editions?
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