in medias res', (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road) And then your hero tells, whene'er you please, What went before — by way of episode, While seated after dinner at his ease, Beside his mistress in some soft abode, Palace, or garden, paradise,... The poetical works of lord Byron, with notes - Page 45 by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 Full view -
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