Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... prose author has refrained from its use . Hence he distinguishes four classes of abstract subjects which are freely associated with verbs of action : - ( 1 ) An affection or disposition of the mind stands out so prominently that it ...
... prose author has refrained from its use . Hence he distinguishes four classes of abstract subjects which are freely associated with verbs of action : - ( 1 ) An affection or disposition of the mind stands out so prominently that it ...
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... prose and poetry had been taken into account . The ratio of the dialogue falls slightly below that of the phoɛs and the choruses . Absolute accuracy is not claimed for these results , but PERSONIFICATION AND USE OF ABSTRACT SUBJECTS 5.
... prose and poetry had been taken into account . The ratio of the dialogue falls slightly below that of the phoɛs and the choruses . Absolute accuracy is not claimed for these results , but PERSONIFICATION AND USE OF ABSTRACT SUBJECTS 5.
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... prose . Without being strictly tragic , the language employed might with propriety be put in the mouth of an heroine of tragedy , e . g . , Eur . Hel . 593 òoùxei pe μéóelos tãy nóvøv ÿeidet , où d'oỡ . The effect is a slight one , and ...
... prose . Without being strictly tragic , the language employed might with propriety be put in the mouth of an heroine of tragedy , e . g . , Eur . Hel . 593 òoùxei pe μéóelos tãy nóvøv ÿeidet , où d'oỡ . The effect is a slight one , and ...
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... prose , but apparently belongs also to the popular language ; it is put by Lysias and Aristophanes into the mouth of citizens of the humbler sort . Thus in Lysias Euphiletos in slaying the adulterer declares that he perishes not at his ...
... prose , but apparently belongs also to the popular language ; it is put by Lysias and Aristophanes into the mouth of citizens of the humbler sort . Thus in Lysias Euphiletos in slaying the adulterer declares that he perishes not at his ...
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... prose is the personification of πατρίς ( following the analogy of πόλις ) , and of names of lands and countries . Ε . g . Dem . 18 , 280 τοὺς αὐτοὺς φιλεῖν οὔσπερ ἂν ἡ πατρίς ; ib . 170 καλούσης τῆς πατρίδος τῇ κοινῇ φωνῇ ; Lyk . 21 τῆς ...
... prose is the personification of πατρίς ( following the analogy of πόλις ) , and of names of lands and countries . Ε . g . Dem . 18 , 280 τοὺς αὐτοὺς φιλεῖν οὔσπερ ἂν ἡ πατρίς ; ib . 170 καλούσης τῆς πατρίδος τῇ κοινῇ φωνῇ ; Lyk . 21 τῆς ...
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