Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... writer must also be ascribed in part to the luxuriant and rhetorical qualities of Ciceronian style . Method of Procedure . No special examination has hitherto been made of the Greek use of abstract subjects , although a collection of ...
... writer must also be ascribed in part to the luxuriant and rhetorical qualities of Ciceronian style . Method of Procedure . No special examination has hitherto been made of the Greek use of abstract subjects , although a collection of ...
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... writers on the arts and sciences , who are chiefly concerned with things , not with persons , and consequently neg- lect the distinction observed in the purely literary language . Secondly , the examples collected in Part II of the ...
... writers on the arts and sciences , who are chiefly concerned with things , not with persons , and consequently neg- lect the distinction observed in the purely literary language . Secondly , the examples collected in Part II of the ...
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... writers of the mythical or theological tendency . Thus Herodotos does not think it altogether incredible that the hurricane which over- took the Persian fleet off Magnesia was in reality the god Boreas , coming to the assistance of the ...
... writers of the mythical or theological tendency . Thus Herodotos does not think it altogether incredible that the hurricane which over- took the Persian fleet off Magnesia was in reality the god Boreas , coming to the assistance of the ...
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... writer , or the oracle and its giver ( uavτetov used in both senses ) . Often letter and person are freely coordinated in the same sentence : Aisch . 2 , 92 ὥς φησι Χάρης ὁ στρατηγὸς καὶ ἡ Entoтoký ; Dem . 19 , 44 ; cf. Ant . 1 , 2 ...
... writer , or the oracle and its giver ( uavτetov used in both senses ) . Often letter and person are freely coordinated in the same sentence : Aisch . 2 , 92 ὥς φησι Χάρης ὁ στρατηγὸς καὶ ἡ Entoтoký ; Dem . 19 , 44 ; cf. Ant . 1 , 2 ...
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... writers , leads in a broader field to the free Λόγος . personification in language of all the products of thought ... writer's purpose and opinion . The verbs which occur most commonly are those of advising , teaching , persuading ...
... writers , leads in a broader field to the free Λόγος . personification in language of all the products of thought ... writer's purpose and opinion . The verbs which occur most commonly are those of advising , teaching , persuading ...
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