Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... belong also the arts and sciences conceived as inde- pendent of those who pursue them , as Cic . Fin . 3 , 2 , 4 agricultura eas res nominibus notavit novis . More recently the question of the Latin use of abstract subjects has received ...
... belong also the arts and sciences conceived as inde- pendent of those who pursue them , as Cic . Fin . 3 , 2 , 4 agricultura eas res nominibus notavit novis . More recently the question of the Latin use of abstract subjects has received ...
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... belong to popular or to technical language , i . e . , the language of special classes or professions , as Dem . 19 , 44 ταῦτα λέγει ἡ ἐπιστολή ; νόμος λέγει , κελεύει , etc .; Isokr . 2 , 42 τὰ συμβουλεύοντα τῶν συγγραμμάτων . — The ...
... belong to popular or to technical language , i . e . , the language of special classes or professions , as Dem . 19 , 44 ταῦτα λέγει ἡ ἐπιστολή ; νόμος λέγει , κελεύει , etc .; Isokr . 2 , 42 τὰ συμβουλεύοντα τῶν συγγραμμάτων . — The ...
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... belong properly to imaginative or impassioned language , and from the nature of the case there is little restriction upon the verb employed . The examples of abstract subjects which remain after these deductions have been made are of a ...
... belong properly to imaginative or impassioned language , and from the nature of the case there is little restriction upon the verb employed . The examples of abstract subjects which remain after these deductions have been made are of a ...
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... belong to the sphere of every - day life . Cases of the full personification of abstracts remain , and also the general mass of less vivid uses . These two classes , the more and the less forcible , are intimately connected ; the ...
... belong to the sphere of every - day life . Cases of the full personification of abstracts remain , and also the general mass of less vivid uses . These two classes , the more and the less forcible , are intimately connected ; the ...
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... belong chiefly , though not exclusively , to the military language . Thus we find the various implements and engines of war placed as subjects : Th . 2 , 76 , 4 ( μηχανὴν , ) ἢ τοῦ οἰκοδομήματος ἐπὶ μέγα τε κατέσεισε καὶ τοὺς Πλαταιᾶς ...
... belong chiefly , though not exclusively , to the military language . Thus we find the various implements and engines of war placed as subjects : Th . 2 , 76 , 4 ( μηχανὴν , ) ἢ τοῦ οἰκοδομήματος ἐπὶ μέγα τε κατέσεισε καὶ τοὺς Πλαταιᾶς ...
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