Terminalia Or Notes on the Subjects of the Litterae Humaniores and Modernation Schools, Issues 1-2Francis Macpherson., 1851 |
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... reason applies to v . 326 , though there the tense is the present : nothing could have been gained by calling on us to contem- plate the filling of the drains , the swelling of the rivers , and the boiling of the sea , separately and ...
... reason applies to v . 326 , though there the tense is the present : nothing could have been gained by calling on us to contem- plate the filling of the drains , the swelling of the rivers , and the boiling of the sea , separately and ...
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... reason or another , to regard a thing in a less natural , rather than in a more natural relation - e . g . in v . 263 already noticed , the peculiarity lies not in the grammatical force of the ablative , which is perfectly clear , but ...
... reason or another , to regard a thing in a less natural , rather than in a more natural relation - e . g . in v . 263 already noticed , the peculiarity lies not in the grammatical force of the ablative , which is perfectly clear , but ...
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... reason- able to think that curule means patrician . The ædiles curules are obviously opposed to the ædiles plebeii . There seems to be no difficulty in connecting curulis with curia , but the quantity . And this disappears , if curia is ...
... reason- able to think that curule means patrician . The ædiles curules are obviously opposed to the ædiles plebeii . There seems to be no difficulty in connecting curulis with curia , but the quantity . And this disappears , if curia is ...
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... reason to think that they were justly chosen for the great part which they played in history . It may be doubted whether the consecration of the spolia opima and the formal promise of temples to Jupiter Feretrius and Jupiter Stator by ...
... reason to think that they were justly chosen for the great part which they played in history . It may be doubted whether the consecration of the spolia opima and the formal promise of temples to Jupiter Feretrius and Jupiter Stator by ...
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... reason for omitting them ; or it may be that they were the house of the traitor Mettus . Proculus Julius was a Roman before this , and saw the vision of Quirinus . Ovid says , in recounting the vision , " Sed Proculus longâ veniebat ...
... reason for omitting them ; or it may be that they were the house of the traitor Mettus . Proculus Julius was a Roman before this , and saw the vision of Quirinus . Ovid says , in recounting the vision , " Sed Proculus longâ veniebat ...
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Page 45 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 70 - Peace, brother : be not over exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils : For grant they be so ; while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Or, if they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion...
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Page 7 - Non aliter quam is retro sublapsus refertur qui navigium agit atque ilium in przeceps prono rapit alveus amni;" an explanation which, even although it had not been, almost totidem verbis, Virgil's own, would have been established beyond the possibility of doubt by the nearly parallel passage of Lucretius, iv. 422.