Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... seen from a statistical table , giving the whole use of non - personal subjects in the Orators , Herodotos and Thukydides . Sophokles ( Oid . T. , Antig . ) Antiphon ( Tetralogies , Or . I ) . Thukydides ( Speeches ) . Herodotos ( Bk ...
... seen from a statistical table , giving the whole use of non - personal subjects in the Orators , Herodotos and Thukydides . Sophokles ( Oid . T. , Antig . ) Antiphon ( Tetralogies , Or . I ) . Thukydides ( Speeches ) . Herodotos ( Bk ...
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... seen in any scientific work which deals with technical subjects . This special use , so far as it appears in Thukydides and the orators , will be examined under three heads : - ( 1 ) The popular language , illustrated chiefly by the ...
... seen in any scientific work which deals with technical subjects . This special use , so far as it appears in Thukydides and the orators , will be examined under three heads : - ( 1 ) The popular language , illustrated chiefly by the ...
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... seen in Aisch . 2 , 128 λαβέ μοι τὴν ἐπιστολήν · δῆλον γὰρ ὅτι μεγάλα τὴν πόλιν παραλογίζεται ; Dem . 19 , 15 ἐπιστολὰς ἔπεμψεν ὁ Φίλιππος καλούσας ὑμᾶς , οὐχ ἵνα ἐξέλθοιτε , ἀλλ ̓ ἵνα κτέ .; Dem . 21 , 54 ( αἱ μαντείαι ) προστάττουσι ...
... seen in Aisch . 2 , 128 λαβέ μοι τὴν ἐπιστολήν · δῆλον γὰρ ὅτι μεγάλα τὴν πόλιν παραλογίζεται ; Dem . 19 , 15 ἐπιστολὰς ἔπεμψεν ὁ Φίλιππος καλούσας ὑμᾶς , οὐχ ἵνα ἐξέλθοιτε , ἀλλ ̓ ἵνα κτέ .; Dem . 21 , 54 ( αἱ μαντείαι ) προστάττουσι ...
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... seen in the speeches of Demosthenes against the proposed laws of Leptines , Aristokrates , and Timokrates ( Orr . XX , XXIII and XXIV ) . The law attacked is treated as a moral person , and in respect to the effects it will produce is ...
... seen in the speeches of Demosthenes against the proposed laws of Leptines , Aristokrates , and Timokrates ( Orr . XX , XXIII and XXIV ) . The law attacked is treated as a moral person , and in respect to the effects it will produce is ...
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... seen ( pp . 14 , 17 ) , causes it to attribute speech and other personal ac- tions to the letter or the decree as representative of their writers , leads in a broader field to the free Λόγος . personification in language of all the ...
... seen ( pp . 14 , 17 ) , causes it to attribute speech and other personal ac- tions to the letter or the decree as representative of their writers , leads in a broader field to the free Λόγος . personification in language of all the ...
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