Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... inanimate things ( Personification Proper ) , as Dem . 18,172 ἐκεῖνος ὁ καιρὸς καὶ ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκείνη εὔνουν ἄνδρα ἐκάλει . It will be observed that only those cases of personification are included under the present class in which the ...
... inanimate things ( Personification Proper ) , as Dem . 18,172 ἐκεῖνος ὁ καιρὸς καὶ ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκείνη εὔνουν ἄνδρα ἐκάλει . It will be observed that only those cases of personification are included under the present class in which the ...
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... inanimate things , as Dem . 18 , 194 novŋoávtwv αὐτῷ τῶν σκευῶν ἢ καὶ συντριβέντων ὅλως ; Th . 7 , 38 ( ἡ ναῦς ) ; perhaps also to zvduvevety , used of money or property , as Isokr . 17 , 36 εἰ μὴ κινδυνεύοι τὰ χρήματα ; Dem . 30 , 16 ...
... inanimate things , as Dem . 18 , 194 novŋoávtwv αὐτῷ τῶν σκευῶν ἢ καὶ συντριβέντων ὅλως ; Th . 7 , 38 ( ἡ ναῦς ) ; perhaps also to zvduvevety , used of money or property , as Isokr . 17 , 36 εἰ μὴ κινδυνεύοι τὰ χρήματα ; Dem . 30 , 16 ...
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... inanimate objects in nature ( see below under Personification , I ) . With the exception of a single speech of Demosthenes , which deals with the obstruction of a water - course ( Or . LV ) , there is little occasion in the orators for ...
... inanimate objects in nature ( see below under Personification , I ) . With the exception of a single speech of Demosthenes , which deals with the obstruction of a water - course ( Or . LV ) , there is little occasion in the orators for ...
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... inanimate objects . Thus inanimate objects which had caused death were brought to a formal trial in the court called τὸ ἐπὶ Πρυτανείῳ , and , if found guilty of pollution , were removed beyond the boundaries : Aisch . 3 , 244 τὰ ξύλα ...
... inanimate objects . Thus inanimate objects which had caused death were brought to a formal trial in the court called τὸ ἐπὶ Πρυτανείῳ , and , if found guilty of pollution , were removed beyond the boundaries : Aisch . 3 , 244 τὰ ξύλα ...
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... inanimate things ; роσоTоia is the figure by which an imaginary speech is put for rhetorical effect in the mouth of an absent person or of an inanimate thing treated as a person ; see Volk- mann , Rhet . , pp . 280 , 489 ; Straub , 1. l ...
... inanimate things ; роσоTоia is the figure by which an imaginary speech is put for rhetorical effect in the mouth of an absent person or of an inanimate thing treated as a person ; see Volk- mann , Rhet . , pp . 280 , 489 ; Straub , 1. l ...
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