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... heart assert their pre- dominance . And as it is with the individual , so it is with nations as a whole . Few , indeed , are the indi- viduals , and few the nations that nature has evenly favoured with all mental endowments . Among the ...
... heart assert their pre- dominance . And as it is with the individual , so it is with nations as a whole . Few , indeed , are the indi- viduals , and few the nations that nature has evenly favoured with all mental endowments . Among the ...
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... heart . Diligere signifies in the first instance simply to discriminate . * The idea of * Or it may be from the same root as dλéyw , " to trouble one- self about . " See Walde , s.v. dutiful affection attending on certain situations con ...
... heart . Diligere signifies in the first instance simply to discriminate . * The idea of * Or it may be from the same root as dλéyw , " to trouble one- self about . " See Walde , s.v. dutiful affection attending on certain situations con ...
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... heart , the love which the Latins call amor , was regarded by the Roman people not from its spiritual side : amor was to the Roman a malady , a consuming fire , a fatal wound . † With the exception perhaps of Tibullus , the poets seized ...
... heart , the love which the Latins call amor , was regarded by the Roman people not from its spiritual side : amor was to the Roman a malady , a consuming fire , a fatal wound . † With the exception perhaps of Tibullus , the poets seized ...
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... hearts as it does in German . " The tenderness of love in the case of Teutonic nations depends on faith and mutual con- fidence : hence it is that such words as the German Glaube ( ge - loube ) and Liebe , and in Gothic indeed the word ...
... hearts as it does in German . " The tenderness of love in the case of Teutonic nations depends on faith and mutual con- fidence : hence it is that such words as the German Glaube ( ge - loube ) and Liebe , and in Gothic indeed the word ...
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... hearts : hence a large proportion of German [ and of English ] names re- call memories of war cries and bellicose sounds ; others again reveal what our forefathers regarded as the ideals of life , such as Prudence , Force , Wealth ...
... hearts : hence a large proportion of German [ and of English ] names re- call memories of war cries and bellicose sounds ; others again reveal what our forefathers regarded as the ideals of life , such as Prudence , Force , Wealth ...
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adjectives alliteration ancient apud Archiv atque Bell Bellum Berlin borrowed Caesar called Cato Catullus characteristic Cicero classical connected construction dative declension deities denotes dialect diction Dräger employed English Ennius especially etiam expressions fact favour feeling figures of speech formations frequently Gall genitive German Graeci Greek Grégoire de Tours hence Hexameter Homer Horace influence instance Jahrbücher later Latin language Leipzig less lingua literature Livy Lucretius meaning merely metaphors method noun occurs old Latin old Roman orator oratory origin Ovid peculiarities periods Philol phrases Plautus pleonasm plural poetry popular preferred Propertius prose quae quam Quintilian quod rhetorical Roman Roman poets Romance languages Rome Sallust says sense sentences signification similes simple sounds speaking Sprache style substantive Syntax Tacitus thought Tibullus tion trait treatise usage utterances verbis verborum verbs Vergil verse vowel vulgar Latin Walde Weise's words writers
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Page 133 - Virgilio Varioque ? Ego cur acquirere pauca Si possum invideor, cum lingua Catonis et Enni Sermonem patrium ditaverit et nova rerum Nomina protulerit ? Licuit semperque licebit Signatum praesente nota producere nomen.
Page 107 - ... at qui legitimum cupiet fecisse poema, cum tabulis animum censoris sumet honesti ; 110 audebit, quaecumque parum splendoris habebunt et sine pondere erunt et honore indigna ferentur, verba movere loco, quamvis invita recedant et versentur adhuc intra penetralia Vestae...
Page 188 - Converti enim ex Atticis duorum eloquentissimorum nobilissimas orationes inter seque contrarias, Aeschinis et 2 Demosthenis ; nee converti ut interpres, sed ut orator, sententiis isdem et earum formis tamquam figuris, verbis ad nostram consuetudinem aptis.
Page 101 - Multi ex alieno saeculo petunt verba, duodecim tabulas loquuntur. Gracchus illis et Crassus et Curio nimis culti et recentes sunt, ad Appium usque et Coruncanium redeunt.
Page 5 - Equidem soleo etiam, quod uno Graeci, si aliter non possum, idem pluribus verbis exponere.
Page 114 - In freta dum fluvii current, dum montibus umbrae Lustrabunt convexa, polus dum sidera pascet, Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt, Quae me cumque vocant terrae.
Page 87 - Nec me animi fallit Graiorum obscura reperta difficile inlustrare Latinis versibus esse, multa novis verbis praesertim cum sit agendum propter egestatem linguae et rerum novitatem...
Page 4 - Latinis etiam litteris con8 tineri; eoque me minus instituti mei paenitet quod facile sentio quam multorum non modo discendi sed etiam scribendi studia commoverim. Complures enim Graecis institutionibus eruditi ea quae didicerant cum civibus suis communicare non poterant, quod ilia quae a Graecis accepissent Latine dici posse diffiderent: quo in genere tantum profecisse videmur ut a Graecis ne verborum quidem copia vincere9 mur.
Page 69 - Scio solere plerisque hominibus rebus secundis atque prolixis atque prosperis animum excellere atque superbiam atque ferociam augescere atque crescere.
Page 14 - Nam scutum, gladium, galeam in onere nostri milites non plus numerant, quam humeros, lacertos, manus. Arma enim membra militis esse dicunt.