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... writers in the adoption of inflexional forms ( §§ 119-120 ) . ( 3 ) Syntactical peculiarities ( §§ 121-124 ) . ( 4 ) Stylistic peculiarities ( §§ 125-130 ) . APPENDIX Roman culture as mirrored in the Latin Voca- 181 211 bulary . NOTES ...
... writers in the adoption of inflexional forms ( §§ 119-120 ) . ( 3 ) Syntactical peculiarities ( §§ 121-124 ) . ( 4 ) Stylistic peculiarities ( §§ 125-130 ) . APPENDIX Roman culture as mirrored in the Latin Voca- 181 211 bulary . NOTES ...
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... 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 salvus ( the boar ...
... 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 salvus ( the boar ...
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... consult Minto's " Manual of Prose Literature , " p . 15 ; he also gives the sources whence the greatest English writers draw their figures of speech . employs he presents us with a view of his intellectual 14 LANGUAGE AND CHARACTER.
... consult Minto's " Manual of Prose Literature , " p . 15 ; he also gives the sources whence the greatest English writers draw their figures of speech . employs he presents us with a view of his intellectual 14 LANGUAGE AND CHARACTER.
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... writer's fondness for disputes and feuds . * If certain meta- phors are found to colour a language not merely in special periods , but in all its stages ; when , in fact , they are the common property of all the writers and speakers in ...
... writer's fondness for disputes and feuds . * If certain meta- phors are found to colour a language not merely in special periods , but in all its stages ; when , in fact , they are the common property of all the writers and speakers in ...
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... writer . Lessing's maxim was true to life when he stated that the poet should not bring into promin- ence more than a single feature of a subject at one time . " The etymological meaning of a word never exhausts the full meaning ; it is ...
... writer . Lessing's maxim was true to life when he stated that the poet should not bring into promin- ence more than a single feature of a subject at one time . " The etymological meaning of a word never exhausts the full meaning ; it is ...
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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.