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... to impressions from consonantal alliteration . This alliteration gives the verse a char- acteristic ring of its own , rather than a melody ; it renders it not indeed more graceful , but stronger and OF THE ROMAN PEOPLE 61.
... to impressions from consonantal alliteration . This alliteration gives the verse a char- acteristic ring of its own , rather than a melody ; it renders it not indeed more graceful , but stronger and OF THE ROMAN PEOPLE 61.
Page 77
... verse the high merits of the poet : " Were it seemly that immortals should weep for mortals , the divine Camenae would weep for the poet Naevius . And so , since he has been made over to the place of death , Rome has forgotten to speak ...
... verse the high merits of the poet : " Were it seemly that immortals should weep for mortals , the divine Camenae would weep for the poet Naevius . And so , since he has been made over to the place of death , Rome has forgotten to speak ...
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... verse , the quantitative and the accentual . Those who hold the former theory regard the Saturnian verse as a verse of six feet with an anacrusis , and a break after the fourth , or more rarely after the third thesis ; cf. The Quéen was ...
... verse , the quantitative and the accentual . Those who hold the former theory regard the Saturnian verse as a verse of six feet with an anacrusis , and a break after the fourth , or more rarely after the third thesis ; cf. The Quéen was ...
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... verse , appear with increased frequency , though these in many cases were either translated or imitated directly from Homer . Side by side with metaphors taken from agriculture and war , tropes taken from the sea and the chase played a ...
... verse , appear with increased frequency , though these in many cases were either translated or imitated directly from Homer . Side by side with metaphors taken from agriculture and war , tropes taken from the sea and the chase played a ...
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... poet as Lucretius , who solved the difficult problem of representing a philosophical system in verse , had to confess ( i , 136 sqq . ) : Nec me animi fallit Graiorum obscura reperta difficile illustrare Latinis 88 LANGUAGE AND CHARACTER.
... poet as Lucretius , who solved the difficult problem of representing a philosophical system in verse , had to confess ( i , 136 sqq . ) : Nec me animi fallit Graiorum obscura reperta difficile illustrare Latinis 88 LANGUAGE AND CHARACTER.
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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.