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- # The smaller debt to Livy.
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This subsection, titled "The smaller debt to Livy.", is part of a larger collection and was extracted from a text file. It discusses literary influences and sources related to a narrative poem, likely Shakespeare's *Lucrece*, by comparing it to works by Ovid, Chaucer, Bandello, and Livy.
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This subsection specifically examines the influence of Livy on the narrative, noting that Shakespeare's poem appears to draw directly from Livy's phrasing in certain passages, such as the description of Tarquin's hand on Lucrece's breast and the threat involving a slave. It suggests that Shakespeare's understanding of Livy may have come from sources beyond mere paraphrasing, possibly indicating direct engagement with Livy's original text. The text also briefly mentions that Shakespeare's poem is related to Ovid and contrasts Shakespeare's approach with that of Chaucer and Bandello.
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household; Tarquin warns Lucrece he will place at her side ‘some worthless slave of thine’, i. e. of Lucrece (515). Chaucer and Bandello are both here in agreement with Shakespeare (cf. Chaucer’s ‘thy knave’ in *Legend*, 1807; and Bandello’s ‘uno dei tuoi servi’). From either, the English poet might have adopted the detail. In any case he owed nothing, at this point, to Painter.
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- The smaller debt to Livy.