Terminalia Or Notes on the Subjects of the Litterae Humaniores and Modernation Schools, Issues 1-2Francis Macpherson., 1851 |
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... Italy , and Circeii brought Ulysses . Niebuhr , pronouncing that the legend was home- sprung , traces it in Greek writers as far back as Apol- lodorus of Gela , the cotemporary of Menander . There must then have been a remarkable ...
... Italy , and Circeii brought Ulysses . Niebuhr , pronouncing that the legend was home- sprung , traces it in Greek writers as far back as Apol- lodorus of Gela , the cotemporary of Menander . There must then have been a remarkable ...
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... Italian doctor who had come to teach at the newly founded college of Corpus Christi . The college is described in the statutes as an apiary , and the fellows as bees making literary honey . At University College there is brought into ...
... Italian doctor who had come to teach at the newly founded college of Corpus Christi . The college is described in the statutes as an apiary , and the fellows as bees making literary honey . At University College there is brought into ...
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... Italian god , who from similarity of attributes was identified with Hercules , stood near the Tiber , in the Forum Boa- rium . The abode of Cacus was at the Porta Trige- mina , and hence Propertius makes him three - headed . The Pinarii ...
... Italian god , who from similarity of attributes was identified with Hercules , stood near the Tiber , in the Forum Boa- rium . The abode of Cacus was at the Porta Trige- mina , and hence Propertius makes him three - headed . The Pinarii ...
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... Italian tribe , were driven on to the uplands by the invading Pelasgi . + They were therefore emphatically the people of the heights . It certainly seems at first sight a curious instance of the long - exploded lucus a non lucendo ...
... Italian tribe , were driven on to the uplands by the invading Pelasgi . + They were therefore emphatically the people of the heights . It certainly seems at first sight a curious instance of the long - exploded lucus a non lucendo ...
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... into Arcadia : Strabo , lib . viii . cap . v . The liquefaction of the λ is not common in Greek , but very frequent in the modern Italian . * See above , 6 . F. A. P. ON ESCHYLUS , PROM . VINCT . 791 . In ETYMOLOGICAL SUGGESTIONS . 69.
... into Arcadia : Strabo , lib . viii . cap . v . The liquefaction of the λ is not common in Greek , but very frequent in the modern Italian . * See above , 6 . F. A. P. ON ESCHYLUS , PROM . VINCT . 791 . In ETYMOLOGICAL SUGGESTIONS . 69.
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