Conjectural emendations of passages in ancient authors, with other papers

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Rivingtons, 1883 - 81 strán (strany)

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Strana 30 - Noricus deterret ensis nec mare naufragum nec saevus ignis nec tremendo luppiter ipse ruens tumultu. fertur Prometheus addere principi limo coactus particulam undique desectam et insani leonis vim stomacho apposuisse nostro. irae Thyesten exitio gravi stravere et altis urbibus ultimae stetere causae, cur perirent funditus imprimeretque muris hostile aratrum exercitus insolens.
Strana 31 - Nec facundia deseret hunc, nec lucidus ordo. Ordinis haec virtus erit et venus, aut ego fallor, Ut jam nunc dicat jam nunc debentia dici, Pleraque differat et praesens in tempus omittat ; Hoc amet, hoc spernat promissi carminis auctor.
Strana 44 - Fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas. Largior hie campos aether et lumine vestit Purpureo solemque suum, sua sidera norunt.
Strana 37 - ... an element of uncertainty remains ; but as there can hardly fail to have been numerous inscriptions in the neighbouring country relating to so famous a place, there is every reason to hope, that when these wild districts have been more fully explored, we shall no longer be left in doubt as to this, the only place of great celebrity in Greece of which the situation is not exactly known.1 1 The arguments here adduced are given more at length in Leake, ' Northern Greece,
Strana 48 - Lincoln, about a million of money has been contributed and expended in this diocese in the building and restoration of churches ; that this sum has been well and wisely applied, you will, we hope, have ample evidence in your visits to the churches in Lincoln and its neighbourhood in the present week. This is due mainly to the intelligent study of Christian antiquity, and to a spirit of reverential regard for the noble, ancient churches with which this diocese •bounds.
Strana 39 - he says * has established a new proof of the considerable part which the consultation of the oracle played in the public and private life of the ancient Greek.
Strana 57 - Observe the orthography of the accusative d&atis ; the printed copies have pulset. 53. We pass from Ovid to Germanicus, the patron of his Fasti. The following date, scratched on the wall carries us back to AD 18. Dr. Wordsworth justly remarks : " This inscription remained visible for sixty years after it was here first written ; it was then buried for seventeen hundred by the ashes of Vesuvius, and promises to survive as many more. Tt is, I apprehend, the oldest Latin MS. in existence.
Strana 39 - ... circumstances of embarrassment the confiding Greek had recourse to the Omniscient Deity, and sought from Him the means of succeeding in an enterprise, or in grappling with a difficulty. And these inscriptions confirm the testimony of ancient authors to the wide-spread fame of the Oracle, and display to us as seeking the help of the God, not only the simple peasant of the neighbourhood, but members of Greek communities far and near.
Strana 51 - C'était, il faut en convenir, une leçon assez dure pour les antiquaires napolitains. Il était humiliant pour eux de voir un étranger découvrir sur les murs de monuments dont ils étaient disposés à considérer l'étude comme leur apanage exclusif, des textes d'une haute importance, dont ils n'avaient seulement pas soupçonné l'existence. L'éveil avait été donné à l'Europe par M. Wordsworth , les Allemands s'empressèrent de profiter des nouveaux renseignements que fournissait son travail,...
Strana 39 - The examination has established a new proof of the considerable part which the consultation of the oracle played in the public and private life % of the ancient Greeks. In circumstances of importance or embarrassment...

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