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Musae

the Muses

also: Musarum, Muses

The nine Greek goddesses of poetry and the arts, whose crags symbolise the heights of learned poetry. Cicero (Brutus 71) quotes Ennius's claim that before himself no one had climbed 'the crags of the Muses.'

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Mentioned in 15 works (19 mentions)

Aratea (Translation of Aratus' Phaenomena) phil · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 7.23 letter · 1 mention
For the Poet Aulus Licinius Archias speech · 2 mentions
Ad Atticum 1.16 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.4 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.5 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 1.9 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 16.10 letter · 1 mention
On the Laws phil · 1 mention
Brutus rhet · 2 mentions
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhet · 2 mentions
Academica phil · 1 mention
On the Nature of the Gods phil · 2 mentions
Tusculan Disputations phil · 1 mention
On Divination phil · 1 mention

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