Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... Lysias has been included in view of its special interest . The arrangement of the material offers some difficulty . Ahlén has arranged his examples according to verbs , Bock according to subjects . The arrangement which I shall adopt ...
... Lysias has been included in view of its special interest . The arrangement of the material offers some difficulty . Ahlén has arranged his examples according to verbs , Bock according to subjects . The arrangement which I shall adopt ...
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... Lysias . • · 17 145 .12 21 187 .II In estimating the number of examples of each author I have omitted a few colorless and inevitable phrases for which there are no other expressions , viz . , verbs of motion used of time , revenues and ...
... Lysias . • · 17 145 .12 21 187 .II In estimating the number of examples of each author I have omitted a few colorless and inevitable phrases for which there are no other expressions , viz . , verbs of motion used of time , revenues and ...
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... Lysias and Isaios , are extremely sparing in their use of abstract subjects . Their ratio is about one- half that of the private speeches of Isokrates and Demosthenes , and little more than one - fourth the general average of Demos ...
... Lysias and Isaios , are extremely sparing in their use of abstract subjects . Their ratio is about one- half that of the private speeches of Isokrates and Demosthenes , and little more than one - fourth the general average of Demos ...
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... Lysias , but is found also in Isokrates and in the lively dialogue of Aristophanes . The Greek abstract subject is far more often than in modern 1 On the stylistic effect of the articular inf . , see Prof. Gildersleeve , A. J. P. , XX ...
... Lysias , but is found also in Isokrates and in the lively dialogue of Aristophanes . The Greek abstract subject is far more often than in modern 1 On the stylistic effect of the articular inf . , see Prof. Gildersleeve , A. J. P. , XX ...
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... Lysias Examples . and Isaios . Thus in the dramatic scene in which Diogeiton's daughter upbraids her father for his cruelty , she is represented by Lysias as saying that ' the crushing weight of her misfortunes compels her to speak in ...
... Lysias Examples . and Isaios . Thus in the dramatic scene in which Diogeiton's daughter upbraids her father for his cruelty , she is represented by Lysias as saying that ' the crushing weight of her misfortunes compels her to speak in ...
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