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... Latin tongue . The ancient dialects of Italy , the Sabine , the Etruscan , and the Venetian , sunk into ob- livion ; but in the provinces the East was less docile than the West to the voice of its victorious preceptors . This obvious ...
... Latin tongue . The ancient dialects of Italy , the Sabine , the Etruscan , and the Venetian , sunk into ob- livion ; but in the provinces the East was less docile than the West to the voice of its victorious preceptors . This obvious ...
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... Latin pro- vincials . They solicited with more ardour and obtained with more facility the freedom and honours of the state ; supported the national dignity in letters , and in arms ; and at length , in the person of Trajan , produced an ...
... Latin pro- vincials . They solicited with more ardour and obtained with more facility the freedom and honours of the state ; supported the national dignity in letters , and in arms ; and at length , in the person of Trajan , produced an ...
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... Latin examples , of creating with their indige- nous dialects something analogous to what France and Spain have since created under the same stimulus , with vernacular instruments which , though formed out of the ruins of Latin , were ...
... Latin examples , of creating with their indige- nous dialects something analogous to what France and Spain have since created under the same stimulus , with vernacular instruments which , though formed out of the ruins of Latin , were ...
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... Latin literature , admirable as it is , can hardly be considered , for the present purpose , as any thing more than an off - shoot of Hellenic literature . It is true that Latin was no dialect of Greek by its origin . It was a fellow ...
... Latin literature , admirable as it is , can hardly be considered , for the present purpose , as any thing more than an off - shoot of Hellenic literature . It is true that Latin was no dialect of Greek by its origin . It was a fellow ...
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... Latin authors , and the mul- titude of words borrowed by them , combined with the Indo - Germanic family likeness , have placed Latin literature in such a position of subordination as well as of affinity to Greek literature , that I ...
... Latin authors , and the mul- titude of words borrowed by them , combined with the Indo - Germanic family likeness , have placed Latin literature in such a position of subordination as well as of affinity to Greek literature , that I ...
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