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Atavus

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ATAVUS. The male ascendant in the fifth degree, was so called among the Romans, and in tables of genealogy the term is still employed.


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Unlike the universalist poetics of Philip Sidney, the atavus of so many addressees of The Forrest, Jonson fashions a poetics of specific place, where the country milieu both is self-contained and contains the larger commonwealth.
 
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