The First Six Books of Homer's Iliad

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Harper, 1876 - 897 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 316 - ... and prepositions, being sometimes used as one, sometimes as the other, will illustrate the mode by which prepositions arose. 2. But, though a relation which was implied in the powers of the original cases might be, and generally was, for the sake of clearness, expressed by a preposition, yet it does not follow that the original power of the cases to express this relation was, either in theory or practice, wholly lost ; so that we find the same relation expressed sometimes by the original, more...
Strana 217 - One may take notice that Homer, in these two similitudes, has judiciously made choice of the two most wavering and inconstant things in nature, to compare with the multitude : the waves, and tan of corn.
Strana 320 - Homer, the hiatus so often before them, that, leaving these words out of the account, the hiatus, which is now so frequent in Homer, becomes extremely rare, and, in most of the remaining cases, can be easily and naturally accounted for. These same words have also, in comparison with others, an apostrophe very seldom before them ; and, moreover, the immediately preceding long vowels and diphthongs are far less frequently rendered short than before other words.
Strana 316 - ... so that originally, it is probable, no accurate distinction would be drawn between what may be called the accidents of the notion, or state, while the essence of it, the receiving some action on itself, remained the same. And the passive notion, being conceived of as a sort of reflexive, would be represented in the reflexive form. Secondly, Those middle forms, Future and Aor., to which there are corresponding forms in the passive, have properly only a reflexive meaning. Thirdly, We see that these...
Strana 230 - Gorgon's head are transferred to the border of the skin. By the later poets and artists, the original conception of the aegis appears to have been forgotten or disregarded. They represent it as a breast-plate covered with metal in the form of scales, not used to support the shield, but extending equally on both sides from shoulder to shoulder ; as in the annexed figure, taken from a statue at Florence. With this appearance the descriptions of the aegis by the Latin poets generally correspond.
Strana 303 - Helenas, the chief Augur of Troy, commands Hector to return to the City in order to appoint a solemn Procession of the Queen and the Trojan Matrons to the Temple of Minerva, to entreat her to remove Diomed from the Fight. The...
Strana 243 - The infinitive is also used in forms of wishing or praying, in invocations and entreaties that the person addressed would cause some one else to do something. The accusative is joined with the infinitive, and the two together stand as the object of a verb, expressing or implying the notion of wishing or desiring, such as евеЛе, EÍ^O/ÍOÍ, or tóc, though no sucht verb is, in fact, understood ; as, Zev KVOIHTC — , /ai irplv kit" iJfiUov Svvai KO.I km кчефас Шей».
Strana 316 - Prepositions. §. 472. 1 . As language expresses not only the order of internal thought, but also the circumstances of external things ; and as the relations in which these things stand to us in respect of their position were too manifold to be sufficiently defined by the simple powers of the cases, it happened that as men examined into and comprehended the position of external...
Strana 246 - The particle uv is omitted with the indicative, when the speaker puts out of sight for the time the conditions and circumstances stated in the protasis, on which the consequent depends, and thus represents the action of the apodosis independently of any such restrictions, as if it had actually happened ; while the condition in the protasis guards sufficiently against the supposing from this furm of expression that it is meant to speak of the thing as having really happened.
Strana 316 - The reflexive sense of the middle is often so weak that it is scarcely discernible by us. It frequently consists in the notion of doing an action in which we are specially interested, for our own good or harm, which we do not usually express.

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