Terminalia Or Notes on the Subjects of the Litterae Humaniores and Modernation Schools, Issues 1-2Francis Macpherson., 1851 |
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... better than any argument - observing , that in poetical dic- tion , a person is said to " breathe the blue air , and drink the hoarse wave . " V. 27. Auctorem frugum is explained by Heyne to mean moderatorem , regnatorem . The word ...
... better than any argument - observing , that in poetical dic- tion , a person is said to " breathe the blue air , and drink the hoarse wave . " V. 27. Auctorem frugum is explained by Heyne to mean moderatorem , regnatorem . The word ...
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... better with the sequence of the whole passage , and its connecting particles - enim ( which need not , as Wagner supposes ) be taken for quidem ) , sed tamen , sic quoque , interea ( which in Trapp's sense would rather be præterea ) ...
... better with the sequence of the whole passage , and its connecting particles - enim ( which need not , as Wagner supposes ) be taken for quidem ) , sed tamen , sic quoque , interea ( which in Trapp's sense would rather be præterea ) ...
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... taken as the dative adversæ Tauri fronti : if averso , it is not an adjective , but a participle , and the case is the ablative absolute . The former seems in every B way preferable , being better supported by MSS . and NOTES ON VIRGIL . 9.
... taken as the dative adversæ Tauri fronti : if averso , it is not an adjective , but a participle , and the case is the ablative absolute . The former seems in every B way preferable , being better supported by MSS . and NOTES ON VIRGIL . 9.
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way preferable , being better supported by MSS . and conveying a more poetical image . V. 231. Idcirco seems to mean " for " for purposes like these , " as Trapp renders it , though the notion of a final cause thus conveyed rather ...
way preferable , being better supported by MSS . and conveying a more poetical image . V. 231. Idcirco seems to mean " for " for purposes like these , " as Trapp renders it , though the notion of a final cause thus conveyed rather ...
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... better , renders it by the 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 ...
... better , renders it by the 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 ...
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