Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... represents the conversational language and possesses little rhetorical culture.2 On the other hand , the place of Antiphon and Thukydides at the head of the column represents the grave and elaborate style which admits bold imagery and ...
... represents the conversational language and possesses little rhetorical culture.2 On the other hand , the place of Antiphon and Thukydides at the head of the column represents the grave and elaborate style which admits bold imagery and ...
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... represented by Lysias as saying that ' the crushing weight of her misfortunes compels her to speak in the presence of strangers ' ( Lys . 32 , 11 τὸ μέγεθος αὐτὴν ἀναγκάσει τῶν συμφορῶν δηλῶσαι πάντα ) . Lysias here seeks to fit his ...
... represented by Lysias as saying that ' the crushing weight of her misfortunes compels her to speak in the presence of strangers ' ( Lys . 32 , 11 τὸ μέγεθος αὐτὴν ἀναγκάσει τῶν συμφορῶν δηλῶσαι πάντα ) . Lysias here seeks to fit his ...
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... represented , among the orators , chiefly by Isokrates . Language . Concrete substantives , the names of objects belonging to the uses of daily life , are freely placed as subjects throughout the Greek language . This use occurs most ...
... represented , among the orators , chiefly by Isokrates . Language . Concrete substantives , the names of objects belonging to the uses of daily life , are freely placed as subjects throughout the Greek language . This use occurs most ...
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... represents the thought of a person , just as on a larger scale the language is disposed to attribute distinct personality to thought and expression in general ( see under λóyos , p . 18 f . ) . In such phrases the Greek does not ...
... represents the thought of a person , just as on a larger scale the language is disposed to attribute distinct personality to thought and expression in general ( see under λóyos , p . 18 f . ) . In such phrases the Greek does not ...
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... represents both itself and νομοθέτης , for which it is often an abbreviated form and for which it can often be actually substituted ; we frequently find the two freely alternating in the same passage , as Aisch . 1 , 13-20 , or the one ...
... represents both itself and νομοθέτης , for which it is often an abbreviated form and for which it can often be actually substituted ; we frequently find the two freely alternating in the same passage , as Aisch . 1 , 13-20 , or the one ...
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