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... once that they are mere importations from Greece . Further , we find in Greek literature many more graceful adjectives which testify to a keen observa- tion of nature on the part of those who used them . In Homer all is light and colour ...
... once that they are mere importations from Greece . Further , we find in Greek literature many more graceful adjectives which testify to a keen observa- tion of nature on the part of those who used them . In Homer all is light and colour ...
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... once far- rowed ) ; Maialis ( a fat hog ) ; Verres aegrotus ( the sick boar ) ; and Verres salvus ( the boar convalescent ) . We may regret that it was not usual in Roman times to christen the chief actors in the national farces with ...
... once far- rowed ) ; Maialis ( a fat hog ) ; Verres aegrotus ( the sick boar ) ; and Verres salvus ( the boar convalescent ) . We may regret that it was not usual in Roman times to christen the chief actors in the national farces with ...
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... once been swayed by Phoenicians , Greeks , Carth- aginians , and Etrurians , and which had assumed Greek names even for the portions adjoining Italy ( such as Tyrrhenean and Ionic Sea ) , had passed into Roman possession from Cyprus to ...
... once been swayed by Phoenicians , Greeks , Carth- aginians , and Etrurians , and which had assumed Greek names even for the portions adjoining Italy ( such as Tyrrhenean and Ionic Sea ) , had passed into Roman possession from Cyprus to ...
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... once coloni and " clowns , " like the English of old . * We conceive a higher idea of the Roman imagina- tion as evinced in its nomenclature when we turn to the list of stately agnomina conferred on victorious generals , Africanus ...
... once coloni and " clowns , " like the English of old . * We conceive a higher idea of the Roman imagina- tion as evinced in its nomenclature when we turn to the list of stately agnomina conferred on victorious generals , Africanus ...
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... once earth's shaker and pacifer epithets more appropriate to a deity of the sky than of the sea . Cf. Macrob . Sat. i , 7. " Antevorta et Postvorta apud Ro- manos coluntur . " So Porrima , Ov . Fast . i , 633 . they feel it their ...
... once earth's shaker and pacifer epithets more appropriate to a deity of the sky than of the sea . Cf. Macrob . Sat. i , 7. " Antevorta et Postvorta apud Ro- manos coluntur . " So Porrima , Ov . Fast . i , 633 . they feel it their ...
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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.