Crossword-Solution: STATIUS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The familiar aphorism of Statius: _Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor_, points to the relation of animism first to the belief in ghosts, thence to Polytheism, and ultimately to Monotheism.

Olear.)] 66 (return) [ The otium of Naples is praised by the Roman poets, by Virgil, Horace, Silius Italicus, and Statius, (Cluver.

For their value in teaching grammar and as models of literary style, however, certain classic authors--especially Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, and Statius--were regarded as supplementary to the grammatical works of Donatus, Victorinus, Macrobius, and Priscian, and were studied by the religious throughout the Middle Ages.

Cicero, with Aristotle, Quintilian and Boëthius were the chief exponents of rhetoric; with Virgil, Ovid, Statius, and sometimes such a book as Guido delle Colonne’s epic of Troy, as examples of literary style.

Fifth Ledge: the Avaricious.—Statius.—Cause of the trembling of the Mountain.—Statius does honor to Virgil.