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Colonists could not afford to pay German mercenaries to fight for the patriots
Greek influence. Roman literature owes a debt to the Greeks, more specifically Athens. This indebtedness to Greece was even recognized by the writers themselves. Horace, one of the poets of the Golden Age of Roman literature wrote that Greece introduced the arts "into a backward Latium."
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