Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... frequent in this use ( Part II ) . It need scarcely be said that by the term ' verbs of action ' I understand with Bock ( p . 7 ) verbs expressing voluntary actions , such as a person is accustomed to perform of his own free will and ...
... frequent in this use ( Part II ) . It need scarcely be said that by the term ' verbs of action ' I understand with Bock ( p . 7 ) verbs expressing voluntary actions , such as a person is accustomed to perform of his own free will and ...
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... frequent use of the one in any author implies the frequent use of the other . The construc- tion as a whole appears to be a species of semi - personification , which has been introduced chiefly from epic and tragic poetry , and which ...
... frequent use of the one in any author implies the frequent use of the other . The construc- tion as a whole appears to be a species of semi - personification , which has been introduced chiefly from epic and tragic poetry , and which ...
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... frequent in Thuk . , Ant . , Isokr . and Aisch . , as Isokr . Ep . 8 , 5 ai neρì tùy púun δυνάμεις ; Aisch . 2 , 64 ἡ τῆς αἰτίας ἀπιθανότης ; 3 , 60. 155. 280 . Again by a free use of the articular infinitive as subject Demos- thenes ...
... frequent in Thuk . , Ant . , Isokr . and Aisch . , as Isokr . Ep . 8 , 5 ai neρì tùy púun δυνάμεις ; Aisch . 2 , 64 ἡ τῆς αἰτίας ἀπιθανότης ; 3 , 60. 155. 280 . Again by a free use of the articular infinitive as subject Demos- thenes ...
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... frequently in the historians . It will be sufficient , in illus- tration of this whole class , to cite a few of the bolder uses in full and give only references for the remainder : Dem . 55 , II ἐμβαλὸν τὸ ὕδωρ τά τε χωρία ελυμήνατο καὶ ...
... frequently in the historians . It will be sufficient , in illus- tration of this whole class , to cite a few of the bolder uses in full and give only references for the remainder : Dem . 55 , II ἐμβαλὸν τὸ ὕδωρ τά τε χωρία ελυμήνατο καὶ ...
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... frequent use of entoτoký with verbs of coming , see Part II , Verbs of Motion . 669 The legal and political language which finds its chief expression in the orators , has developed many special technical terms which are treated as ...
... frequent use of entoτoký with verbs of coming , see Part II , Verbs of Motion . 669 The legal and political language which finds its chief expression in the orators , has developed many special technical terms which are treated as ...
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