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... writing Latin with terse and simple elegance , he will not want imitators and followers . With regard , however , to our ignorance of modern Latin philology , it must be owned that our younger students have at least one excuse - namely ...
... writing Latin with terse and simple elegance , he will not want imitators and followers . With regard , however , to our ignorance of modern Latin philology , it must be owned that our younger students have at least one excuse - namely ...
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... written on the Greek language , and by the absence of any similar appeal to the writings of the great Latin scholars . It is required , for example , that the competitor should be familiar with what Porson , Elmsley , and Hermann have ...
... written on the Greek language , and by the absence of any similar appeal to the writings of the great Latin scholars . It is required , for example , that the competitor should be familiar with what Porson , Elmsley , and Hermann have ...
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... written forms 433 3 Ancient testimonies to the difference between the spoken and the written language 437 • 4 The poetry of the Augustan age does not represent the ge- nuine Latin pronunciation 439 · · 5 Which is rather to be derived ...
... written forms 433 3 Ancient testimonies to the difference between the spoken and the written language 437 • 4 The poetry of the Augustan age does not represent the ge- nuine Latin pronunciation 439 · · 5 Which is rather to be derived ...
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... writing and their inferior literary cultivation , the Semitic nations were from the earliest times exposed to the frequent intermixture of cognate races , and were the first possessors of an alphabet and of written records . We have ...
... writing and their inferior literary cultivation , the Semitic nations were from the earliest times exposed to the frequent intermixture of cognate races , and were the first possessors of an alphabet and of written records . We have ...
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... ( written bo in the agglutinate forms ) , a refer- ence to the usage of de - sum and de - fio would best explain the origin and meaning of de - bi - lis . How the sense of " owing " or " obliga- tion " borne by deb - eo is connected with ...
... ( written bo in the agglutinate forms ) , a refer- ence to the usage of de - sum and de - fio would best explain the origin and meaning of de - bi - lis . How the sense of " owing " or " obliga- tion " borne by deb - eo is connected with ...
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Page 214 - Occentassint antiqui dicebant quod nunc convitium fecerint dicimus, quod id clare, et cum quodam canore fit, ut procul exaudiri possit. Quod turpe habetur, quia non sine causa fieri putatur.
Page 451 - Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo, et in...
Page 427 - The meat was served up by watchwords. Jacks are but of late invention. The poor boys did turn the spits, and licked the dripping for their pains.
Page 161 - Forma autem vocabuli ejus, exemplo multorum populorum Italicorum enuntiata est, quod post diem quintum iduum est is dies festus, ut aput Tusculanos Triatrus et Sexatrus et Septimatrus et Faliscos Decimatrus.
Page 114 - aurora dicitur ante solis ortum, ab eo quod ab igni solis turn aureo aer aurescat.
Page 158 - Tusco verbo ludio vocabatur, nomen histrionibus inditum; qui non, sicut ante, Fescennino versu similem incompositum temere ac rudem alternis iaciebant sed impletas modis saturas descripto iam ad tibicinem cantu motuque congruenti peragebant.
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Page 214 - The English law makes a similar provision respecting rabbit-burrows. Fr. 1 1 (vi. 4). § 1, 41, i. de Rer. Dims. : " Venditae vero res et traditae non aliter emptori adquiruntur, quam si is venditori pretium solverit, vel alio modo satisfecerit, veluti expromissore, aut pignore dato. Quod cavetur quidem et lege xi1. Tab., tamen recte dicitur et jure gentium, ie jure naturali, effici.
Page 113 - Aureliam familiam ex Sabinis oriundam a Sole dictam putant, quod ei publice a populo Romano datus sit locus, in quo sacra faceret Soli ; qui ex hoc Auseli dicebantur, ut Valesii, Papisii pro eo quod est Valerii, Papirii.
Page 208 - Erat autem ius interea paciscendi ac, nisi pacti forent, habebantur in vinculis dies sexaginta. Inter eos dies trinis nundinis continuis ad praetorem in comitium producebantur, quantaeque pecuniae iudicati essent, praedicabatur.