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... object of our thoughts ! We have only to compare such Greek words as av , apa , ye , Toι , dn , etc. , which from Homer down serve to enliven and adorn the language of the Greeks , with the very meagre resources provided by Roman ...
... object of our thoughts ! We have only to compare such Greek words as av , apa , ye , Toι , dn , etc. , which from Homer down serve to enliven and adorn the language of the Greeks , with the very meagre resources provided by Roman ...
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... object of diversion : the writer of Atellanes , Pomponius , named no less than four pieces after this animal : Porcetra ( a young sow which has once far- rowed ) ; Maialis ( a fat hog ) ; Verres aegrotus ( the sick boar ) ; and Verres ...
... object of diversion : the writer of Atellanes , Pomponius , named no less than four pieces after this animal : Porcetra ( a young sow which has once far- rowed ) ; Maialis ( a fat hog ) ; Verres aegrotus ( the sick boar ) ; and Verres ...
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... object of the trick is an enemy's town , more especially Troy . Novius says to a wordy poetaster , " Ut sol crescit , cerea castra crebro catapulta impulit , " and Cicero calls the lex Aelia et Fufia , " propugnacula tran- quillitatis ...
... object of the trick is an enemy's town , more especially Troy . Novius says to a wordy poetaster , " Ut sol crescit , cerea castra crebro catapulta impulit , " and Cicero calls the lex Aelia et Fufia , " propugnacula tran- quillitatis ...
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... object denoted . But if we study the semasiology , the development of the signification of any given word , the restric- tions and expansions of its meaning caused by the feelings and impressions which have attached them- selves to it ...
... object denoted . But if we study the semasiology , the development of the signification of any given word , the restric- tions and expansions of its meaning caused by the feelings and impressions which have attached them- selves to it ...
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... objects which recall primitive times and the childish simplicity of view of primitive people . They give us a purview of a nation's pro- cess in culture , and enable us to realize how it judges of its neighbours and of its progenitors ...
... objects which recall primitive times and the childish simplicity of view of primitive people . They give us a purview of a nation's pro- cess in culture , and enable us to realize how it judges of its neighbours and of its progenitors ...
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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.