Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... phrases are far more usual in Previous Literature . modern English . When an abstract noun is employed in Greek or Latin , it adds dignity to the style , and if an abstract subject is employed with a verb of action , the effect is still ...
... phrases are far more usual in Previous Literature . modern English . When an abstract noun is employed in Greek or Latin , it adds dignity to the style , and if an abstract subject is employed with a verb of action , the effect is still ...
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... Phrases and forms of expression which 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 ...
... Phrases and forms of expression which 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 ...
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... phrases for which there are no other expressions , viz . , verbs of motion used of time , revenues and supplies ( προϊόντος τοῦ χρόνου , φοιτᾶν σῖτον ) , verbs of saying and decreeing in technical phrases , where they involve no meta ...
... phrases for which there are no other expressions , viz . , verbs of motion used of time , revenues and supplies ( προϊόντος τοῦ χρόνου , φοιτᾶν σῖτον ) , verbs of saying and decreeing in technical phrases , where they involve no meta ...
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... phrases in which the abstract subject is made more com- plex by having a second abstract dependent upon it as genitive or prepositional phrase are extremely rare in Demosthenes ; such a subject as to τis qúoews ẞápßapov ( 21,150 ) is ...
... phrases in which the abstract subject is made more com- plex by having a second abstract dependent upon it as genitive or prepositional phrase are extremely rare in Demosthenes ; such a subject as to τis qúoews ẞápßapov ( 21,150 ) is ...
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... phrases of Aischines , probably means to include the use of the abstract subject ; see Weil's note . Finally the effect may be noted of associating purely concrete nouns with verbs which are properly used of persons . Thus Aristeides ...
... phrases of Aischines , probably means to include the use of the abstract subject ; see Weil's note . Finally the effect may be noted of associating purely concrete nouns with verbs which are properly used of persons . Thus Aristeides ...
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