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                <requestName>GetPassage</requestName>
                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:B.bassus_3</requestUrn>
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                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:B.bassus_3</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="B"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="bassus-bio-3" n="bassus_3"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Bassus</surname></persName></head><p>2. A dramatic poet, contemporary with Martial, and the subject of a witty epigram, in which
      he is recommended to abandon such themes as Medea, Thyestes, Niobe, and the fate of Troy, and
      to devote his compositions to Phaethon or Deucalion, <hi rend="ital">i. e.</hi> to fire or
      water. (Martial. 5.53.) The name occurs frequently in other epigrams by the same author, but
      the persons spoken of are utterly unknown. </p><byline>[<ref target="author.W.R">W.R</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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