Terminalia Or Notes on the Subjects of the Litterae Humaniores and Modernation Schools, Issues 1-2Francis Macpherson., 1851 |
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... says nothing specially , but in his explanation of the whole sentence , has " terra tepidæ auræ afflatu resolvitur . " V. 52. Patrios cultusque habitusque locorum . Both Heyne and Wagner appear to have misunderstood these words , the ...
... says nothing specially , but in his explanation of the whole sentence , has " terra tepidæ auræ afflatu resolvitur . " V. 52. Patrios cultusque habitusque locorum . Both Heyne and Wagner appear to have misunderstood these words , the ...
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... says , " Bruma intractabilis , dura , " " aspera sic melius quam ut sit , in quâ propter frigoris rigorem nulla res tractari , agi potest . The rendering which he rejects is clearly the true one , except that intractabilis , strictly ...
... says , " Bruma intractabilis , dura , " " aspera sic melius quam ut sit , in quâ propter frigoris rigorem nulla res tractari , agi potest . The rendering which he rejects is clearly the true one , except that intractabilis , strictly ...
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... say that the efficient cause has been substituted for the material . V. 277. Felices operum . Cf. Æn . xi . 416 : fortu- natusque laborum . V. 282. Scilicet is a word which has been rather arbitrarily treated by commentators and ...
... say that the efficient cause has been substituted for the material . V. 277. Felices operum . Cf. Æn . xi . 416 : fortu- natusque laborum . V. 282. Scilicet is a word which has been rather arbitrarily treated by commentators and ...
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... say about winter and the context shows that he is contrasting different seasons of the year . In vv . 287-290 , he was speaking solely of different times of day : the rest of the paragraph forms a transition , as the epithet hiberni ...
... say about winter and the context shows that he is contrasting different seasons of the year . In vv . 287-290 , he was speaking solely of different times of day : the rest of the paragraph forms a transition , as the epithet hiberni ...
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... say , " the earth shakes through all its length and breadth . ' " " V. 330. Heyne seems to think the conjunction out of place in an animated passage : but Wagner rightly defends it as coupling two similar things , which are thus ...
... say , " the earth shakes through all its length and breadth . ' " " V. 330. Heyne seems to think the conjunction out of place in an animated passage : but Wagner rightly defends it as coupling two similar things , which are thus ...
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Æneas ÆSCHYLUS Agamemnon Ancus antistrophe appears atque Attus Navius Blakesley Blomfield cognate Comp Conington connected construction construed Cratylus Crustumerium cultus curule curule magistrates dative denote Dindorf Dionys Dionysius epithet epitheton Eschylus explained expression genitive GEORGIC Greek Hermann Herodotus Heyne Heyne's instance interpretation Latin Lavinium legend Livy Lucius Tarquinius Priscus maturare mean mind natural Niebuhr notion object Orelli passage Pelasgian perhaps poet predicate Priscus probably Prom proposition quæ quam Quirites quoted reading refer rendering Roman Rome Romulus Sabine says seems sense Servius Servius Tullius Soph Strabo sub pedibus suggested supposed syllogism taken thing thought Thucydides tion verb Virgil Wagner word Wunder ἂν γὰρ γε δὲ δὴ εἶναι ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ κατὰ μᾶλλον μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ οὔτε παρ παρὰ πρὸς τὰ ταῦτα τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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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.
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