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... instance , they invented some names of their own coinage for the pomegran- ate ( malum granatum ) , the arbutus , the litter ( lectica ) , letters of the alphabet ( littera ) , the cloister ( porticus ) , the amulet ( amuletum from ...
... instance , they invented some names of their own coinage for the pomegran- ate ( malum granatum ) , the arbutus , the litter ( lectica ) , letters of the alphabet ( littera ) , the cloister ( porticus ) , the amulet ( amuletum from ...
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... instances of this national virtue . The Romans accepted bodily * See Heine , Reisebilder : Reise von München nach Genua . " The Arab has a thousand words for a sword , the Frenchman for love , the Englishman for hanging , the German for ...
... instances of this national virtue . The Romans accepted bodily * See Heine , Reisebilder : Reise von München nach Genua . " The Arab has a thousand words for a sword , the Frenchman for love , the Englishman for hanging , the German for ...
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... instances of this kind : two more may suffice . We are purposely setting aside the peculiar department of knowledge which the Roman from the earliest times proudly proclaimed his own , that of Law and Politics , or Statecraft . The ...
... instances of this kind : two more may suffice . We are purposely setting aside the peculiar department of knowledge which the Roman from the earliest times proudly proclaimed his own , that of Law and Politics , or Statecraft . The ...
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... he who is the first to seize booty ( cf. particeps partem capiens ) : then the first or most prominent in rank . Excellere applies in the first instance to the shoot- ing of weapons over a mark , and so means 16 LANGUAGE AND CHARACTER.
... he who is the first to seize booty ( cf. particeps partem capiens ) : then the first or most prominent in rank . Excellere applies in the first instance to the shoot- ing of weapons over a mark , and so means 16 LANGUAGE AND CHARACTER.
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... instance , sub hasta vendere , which means to sell at auction , but which refers to the custom of selling captured foes beneath the spear ( German subhastiren ) . Substantives again like tiro ( bonus homo semper tiro est ) , tirocinium ...
... instance , sub hasta vendere , which means to sell at auction , but which refers to the custom of selling captured foes beneath the spear ( German subhastiren ) . Substantives again like tiro ( bonus homo semper tiro est ) , tirocinium ...
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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.