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... sentence is the energy and decision , the virility and the dignity which radiate from its very form . There is hardly any trace of affectation or literary refinement . The periods suc- ceed each other with dignity and in well marked ...
... sentence is the energy and decision , the virility and the dignity which radiate from its very form . There is hardly any trace of affectation or literary refinement . The periods suc- ceed each other with dignity and in well marked ...
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... sentence ; and this not in- frequently in cases where the Greek , the German , and the Englishman would prefer to employ co- ordinate sentences . In the place of such particles as " indeed . . . but , " " and so , " " and hence , " and ...
... sentence ; and this not in- frequently in cases where the Greek , the German , and the Englishman would prefer to employ co- ordinate sentences . In the place of such particles as " indeed . . . but , " " and so , " " and hence , " and ...
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... sentences denoting sequence , and in sentences with the historic , or causal , or concessive cum , which in older stages of Latinity are not uncommonly em- ployed to denote a fact as having actually occurred , in ordinary Latin , the ...
... sentences denoting sequence , and in sentences with the historic , or causal , or concessive cum , which in older stages of Latinity are not uncommonly em- ployed to denote a fact as having actually occurred , in ordinary Latin , the ...
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... sentences . Indeed , after Livy's time , this usage took a wider range and spread even to such words as priusquam and to dum , quamquam , etc .; strictly speaking , words introducing simple narration , without any clear reason appearing ...
... sentences . Indeed , after Livy's time , this usage took a wider range and spread even to such words as priusquam and to dum , quamquam , etc .; strictly speaking , words introducing simple narration , without any clear reason appearing ...
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... sentence this accent too gradually passed to the end of the sentence , and the series of unaccented or weakly accented words pre- pared the way for the accented or stressed expres- sion , as effectually as the lictors who preceded him ...
... sentence this accent too gradually passed to the end of the sentence , and the series of unaccented or weakly accented words pre- pared the way for the accented or stressed expres- sion , as effectually as the lictors who preceded him ...
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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.