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Odes, Book I, Ode 3 (Carmina, c. 23 BCE; the famous tag 'aes triplex' / 'triple bronze' from Horace, Odes 1.3.9–10: 'illi robur et aes triplex / circa pectus erat') Inferred

Horace · Carmina, c. 23 BCE; the famous tag 'aes triplex' / 'triple bronze' from Horace, Odes 1.3.9–10: 'illi robur et aes triplex / circa pectus erat'

InferredFuller's image of 'armor of triple brass against all evil powers' echoes Horace's celebrated phrase from Odes 1.3.9–10, 'aes triplex' (triple bronze around the breast), the standard 19th-century allusion for extraordinary invulnerability and protection.

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Documented 1845

Letters • Books

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II. Adolescence

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New-York Daily Tribune

“Italy. ? Cary's Dante” · July?August 1845

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“of the child who, hearing her father quote Horace, observed she 'thought Latin was even sillier than French.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p104

Inferred Fuller explicitly names Horace in an anecdote illustrating the futility of pedantic Latin instruction. The father is "quoting Horace," implying Fuller's familiarity with Horace's work as a basis for her example. While the author is explicit, no specific ode or poem is cited.

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

p163

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“the pure silver haze he will cast around shall be more efficient than armor of triple brass against all evil powers.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller's image of 'armor of triple brass against all evil powers' echoes Horace's celebrated phrase from Odes 1.3.9–10, 'aes triplex' (triple bronze around the breast), the standard 19th-century allusion for extraordinary invulnerability and protection.

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

p166

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“the pure silver haze he will cast around, shall be more efficient than armour of triple brass against all evil powers.”

Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.

Inferred Although Fuller does not name Horace or the Odes, her knowledge of Latin and classical literature suggests a deliberate invocation of this commonplace.