Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... treated as a species of meta- phor by the ancient rhetoricians . - Homer's use of personifying metaphors . - Ps . - Longinos on bold images . — Concrete objects in nature personified by the poets . — πόλις . — Ελλάς and other names of ...
... treated as a species of meta- phor by the ancient rhetoricians . - Homer's use of personifying metaphors . - Ps . - Longinos on bold images . — Concrete objects in nature personified by the poets . — πόλις . — Ελλάς and other names of ...
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... treated here , are the phrases by which properties or estates are spoken of as bringing in certain rents or subject to certain public liturgies . A species of popular personification has been at work here . E. g . Dem . 27 , 64 ὁ δ ...
... treated here , are the phrases by which properties or estates are spoken of as bringing in certain rents or subject to certain public liturgies . A species of popular personification has been at work here . E. g . Dem . 27 , 64 ὁ δ ...
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... treated as a moral person , and in respect to the effects it will produce is held . to as strict accountability as the publicist who has proposed it . E. g . Dem . 24 , 209 νόμον τέθεικεν , ὃς οὐκ ἀνοίγνυσι τὸ δεσμωτήριον , ἀλλὰ ...
... treated as a moral person , and in respect to the effects it will produce is held . to as strict accountability as the publicist who has proposed it . E. g . Dem . 24 , 209 νόμον τέθεικεν , ὃς οὐκ ἀνοίγνυσι τὸ δεσμωτήριον , ἀλλὰ ...
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... treated together ; personification is frequent . Dem . 8 , 77 ei μέντοι καθεδεῖσθε , οὐχ ὁρῶ λόγον ὅστις δυνήσεται τὴν πόλιν σῶσαι ; 21 , 24 ὁ κωλύσας ἐξαπατηθῆναι λόγος ὑμᾶς ; And . I , 29 οἱ λόγοι τῶν κατηγόρων ταῦτα τὰ δεινὰ καὶ ...
... treated together ; personification is frequent . Dem . 8 , 77 ei μέντοι καθεδεῖσθε , οὐχ ὁρῶ λόγον ὅστις δυνήσεται τὴν πόλιν σῶσαι ; 21 , 24 ὁ κωλύσας ἐξαπατηθῆναι λόγος ὑμᾶς ; And . I , 29 οἱ λόγοι τῶν κατηγόρων ταῦτα τὰ δεινὰ καὶ ...
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... , Wirce- burg , 1883 , p . 37 ff . The favorite personification of abstract con- ceptions among the Romans ' has been treated by Engelhard 22 PERSONIFICATION AND USE OF ABSTRACT SUBJECTS RHETORICAL PERSONIFICATION, •
... , Wirce- burg , 1883 , p . 37 ff . The favorite personification of abstract con- ceptions among the Romans ' has been treated by Engelhard 22 PERSONIFICATION AND USE OF ABSTRACT SUBJECTS RHETORICAL PERSONIFICATION, •
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Page 24 - His uplifting and vitalizing process is everywhere at work. Animate nature is raised even to divinity ; and inanimate nature is borne upward into life.
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Page 27 - It need scarcely be said that п-óXir is a thoroughly personal conception to the Greek mind, both when used of Athens and when used of foreign states.
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