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... tion of Greek words like πολυπραγμοσύνη , πολυφιλία , πολυτροπία : “ Adjecimus saepe animum ad vocabula rerum non paucissima , quae neque singulis verbis , ut a Graecis , neque si maxime pluribus eas res verbis dicamus , tam dilucide ...
... tion of Greek words like πολυπραγμοσύνη , πολυφιλία , πολυτροπία : “ Adjecimus saepe animum ad vocabula rerum non paucissima , quae neque singulis verbis , ut a Graecis , neque si maxime pluribus eas res verbis dicamus , tam dilucide ...
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... tion of nature on the part of those who used them . In Homer all is light and colour : epithets such as shining , glittering , radiant , and again picturesque touches , like trailing - footed , crumpled - horned oxen meet us at every ...
... tion of nature on the part of those who used them . In Homer all is light and colour : epithets such as shining , glittering , radiant , and again picturesque touches , like trailing - footed , crumpled - horned oxen meet us at every ...
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... tion : † and mankind is only too prone to extend his own circumstances and qualities to the external world . Hence it happens that in the similitudes he * Cf. Cels . , lib . iii , 9 , " Protinus suillam assam et vinum homini dabant ...
... tion : † and mankind is only too prone to extend his own circumstances and qualities to the external world . Hence it happens that in the similitudes he * Cf. Cels . , lib . iii , 9 , " Protinus suillam assam et vinum homini dabant ...
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... tion has almost entirely disappeared . There are other words used in a tropical sense , in which the metaphor is more apparent : for instance , sub hasta vendere , which means to sell at auction , but which refers to the custom of ...
... tion has almost entirely disappeared . There are other words used in a tropical sense , in which the metaphor is more apparent : for instance , sub hasta vendere , which means to sell at auction , but which refers to the custom of ...
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... tion based on political or personal obligations , and aiming at merely worldly ends . * Here we have the picture of the Roman , his life and his love : he took full advantage of the closest natural relations , but he respected them as ...
... tion based on political or personal obligations , and aiming at merely worldly ends . * Here we have the picture of the Roman , his life and his love : he took full advantage of the closest natural relations , but he respected them as ...
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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.