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... classical and post - classical periods . Its restoration in pronunciation , though guaranteed for educated speech by classical verse , may not have been universal in the dialects . Cicero ( Or . 161 ) describes its omission as iam ...
... classical and post - classical periods . Its restoration in pronunciation , though guaranteed for educated speech by classical verse , may not have been universal in the dialects . Cicero ( Or . 161 ) describes its omission as iam ...
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... classical variants of the third person plural perfect , inherited -ĕre , innovative -ĕrunt ( < * - is - ont ) and -ērunt , a conflation of the two , the first is notably more frequent in poetry than in prose . It is in fact the oldest ...
... classical variants of the third person plural perfect , inherited -ĕre , innovative -ĕrunt ( < * - is - ont ) and -ērunt , a conflation of the two , the first is notably more frequent in poetry than in prose . It is in fact the oldest ...
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... classical poetry . The start of Ovid's lament for Tibullus , Memnona si mater , mater plorauit Achillen ( Am . 3.9 ) is surely a place for solemnity ; nor does the chiastic structure of the line , with the Greek accusatives of Homeric ...
... classical poetry . The start of Ovid's lament for Tibullus , Memnona si mater , mater plorauit Achillen ( Am . 3.9 ) is surely a place for solemnity ; nor does the chiastic structure of the line , with the Greek accusatives of Homeric ...
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Poetic Diction Poetic Discourse and the Poetic Register | 21 |
Nominative Personal Pronouns and Some Patterns of Speech | 97 |
The Word Order of Horaces Odes | 135 |
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