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Edwinus Atherstone
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Edwinus Atherstone (1788–1872) fuit scriptor et poeta Anglicus.[1] The Fall of Nineveh ('Destructio Ninivae'), eius magnum opus, est poema epicum heroicum in pentametris iambicis enarratum, triginta libris compositum, quod narrat de bello longo Arbacis Medi et Belesis Babylonici contra Sardanapalum, regem tyrannicum, totius Assyriae imperatorem, et de destructione Ninivae, urbis antiquae, magnae, pulchrae.
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