Terminalia Or Notes on the Subjects of the Litterae Humaniores and Modernation Schools, Issues 1-2Francis Macpherson., 1851 |
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... Greek . For the sentiment compare below , v . 299 , hiems ignava colono , and Horace's bruma iners , ( Od . iv . 7. 12 ) , where Orelli quotes from Goethe , ein ewiger unwirksamer Winter . = V. 218. If adverso be the right reading , it ...
... Greek . For the sentiment compare below , v . 299 , hiems ignava colono , and Horace's bruma iners , ( Od . iv . 7. 12 ) , where Orelli quotes from Goethe , ein ewiger unwirksamer Winter . = V. 218. If adverso be the right reading , it ...
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... Greek anλnotov , and quotes inexpleto studio from a similar passage in Varro Atacinus . The poet , however , in all probability meant no more than he says ; the sea fowl keep dipping and dipping without any apparent object , though we ...
... Greek anλnotov , and quotes inexpleto studio from a similar passage in Varro Atacinus . The poet , however , in all probability meant no more than he says ; the sea fowl keep dipping and dipping without any apparent object , though we ...
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... Greek language , calls a ter- tiary predicate - agat nubes ita ut serena sint - though a prose author even then would rather write ita ut serenum sit cælum . Ventus , then , instead of being balanced with Vesper , Auster , becomes ...
... Greek language , calls a ter- tiary predicate - agat nubes ita ut serena sint - though a prose author even then would rather write ita ut serenum sit cælum . Ventus , then , instead of being balanced with Vesper , Auster , becomes ...
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... Greek language , which deter- mines the regimen of cases by the sense of a verb at least as much as by its form . See an article on the Metaphysics of Greek Syntax , by W. J. Hickie , in No. XXV . of the Classical Museum . 325. ὡς οὖν ...
... Greek language , which deter- mines the regimen of cases by the sense of a verb at least as much as by its form . See an article on the Metaphysics of Greek Syntax , by W. J. Hickie , in No. XXV . of the Classical Museum . 325. ὡς οὖν ...
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... Greek writers as far back as Apol- lodorus of Gela , the cotemporary of Menander . There must then have been a remarkable coincidence be- tween the mythologists of Rome and Greece . " It is improbable , " says Niebuhr , " that a belief ...
... Greek writers as far back as Apol- lodorus of Gela , the cotemporary of Menander . There must then have been a remarkable coincidence be- tween the mythologists of Rome and Greece . " It is improbable , " says Niebuhr , " that a belief ...
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