Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 17Harvard University Press, 1906 |
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Aegaleos Aegina Aeschylus amphora anapaestic Antias appears Aristides Aristophanes assigned Athenians Athens Attic Augustan authority battle blockade Catullus cave chorus codex comedy CONTENTS OF VOLUME Demus dignus Diodorus divine Dorian edition Empedocles epirrhema epistle evidence fragment gives Greek half-choruses Hellenic Herodotus Homer Horace imitation inscription Latin literature Livy ludi lyric Lysistrata manuscripts mention night Notes ode and antode Panathenaic amphorae parabasis parodos passage Persian Persian fleet Persian ships Plato Plautus play Plutarch poem poet poetry praef Praxagora probably Psyttaleia quoted refer Rhediades Roman Salamis says scene Scipio second half-chorus second leader seems Seneca soul spiritus statement story straits syzygy taurobolium Themistocles Thesmophoriazusae thought tion tradition tragedy TRYGAEUS Valerius Valerius Antias vase verses Virgil Vitruvius Wessner wing word Xerxes Αρτεμις γὰρ δὲ ἐν ημιχ καὶ μὲν πνεῦμα τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τῶν
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Page 27 - Talia dicta dabat; sed viribus ensis adactus Transabiit costas et candida pectora rumpit. 260 Volvitur Euryalus leto, pulchrosque per artus It cruor, inque umeros cervix conlapsa recumbit: Purpureus veluti cum flos succisus aratro Languescit moriens, lassove papavera collo Demisere caput, pluvia cum forte gravantur.
Page 27 - Phrygiae, neque enim Phryges, ite per alta Dindyma, ubi assuetis biforem dat tibia cantum. Tympana vos buxusque vocat Berecyntia Matris Idaeae : sinite arma viris, et cedite ferro...
Page 25 - Greta religasset navita funem, 175 nec malus hic celans dulci crudelia forma consilia in nostris requiesset sedibus hospes ! nam quo me referam?
Page 154 - ... quidem quae vehementissima sunt valent. Ignem spiritus concitat. Aquae si ventum detrahas inertes sunt ; tune demum impetum sumunt cum illas agit flatus. Et potest dissipare magna spatia terrarum, et novos montes subiectus extollere, et insulas non ante visas in medio mari ponere. Theren et Therasiam et hanc nostrae aetatis insulam, spectantibus nobis in Aegaeo mari natam, quis dubitet quin in lucem spiritus vexerit?
Page 72 - This proceeding is not plagiarism; it is like taking an impression from beautiful forms or figures or other works of art. And it seems to me that there would not have been so fine a bloom of perfection on Plato's philosophical doctrines, and that he would not in many cases have found his way to poetical subjectmatter and modes of expression, unless he had with all his heart and mind struggled with Homer for the primacy, entering the lists like a young champion matched against the man whom all admire,...
Page 11 - ... ullus est clivus sed perpetuus campus. 13 Nostra vero memoria cum colossici Apollinis in fano basis esset a vetustate diffracta, et metuentes, ne cederet ea statua et frangeretur, locaverunt ex eisdem lapidicinis basim excidendam. Conduxit quidam Paconius. Haec autem basis erat longa pedes duodecim, lata pedes vm, alta pedes sex.
Page 47 - Spicifera, iusti inventrix, urbium conditrix, Ex quis muneribus nosse contigit deos. Ergo eadem mater divum, Pax, Virtus, Ceres, Dea Syria, lance vitam et iura pensitans.
Page 169 - Apud omnis magnum nomen Marcii ducis est ; et verae gloriae eius etiam miracula addunt, flammam ei contionanti fusam e capite sine ipsius sensu cum magno pavore...
Page 20 - Pelea sensit. O nimis optato saeclorum tempore nati Heroes, salvete, deum genus, o bona matrum Progenies, salvete iterum...
Page 11 - Tibullus. 1o, 2, 13 (251, 3) : Nostra vero memoria cum colossici Apollinis in fano basis esset a vetustate diffracta, metuentes ne caderet ea statua et frangeretur, locaverunt ex eisdem lapidicinis basim excidendam. Conduxit quidam Paeonius. It is truly tantalizing that this passage with its nostra memoria, a phrase apparently so promising, gives us really nothing definite about the date at which it was written.