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... Professor R. C. Jebb's truly admirable paper on Pindar in the Journal of Hellenic Studies , is a model of what an essay on the character and style of an ancient poet ought to be . He shows clearly and briefly that " the most ...
... Professor R. C. Jebb's truly admirable paper on Pindar in the Journal of Hellenic Studies , is a model of what an essay on the character and style of an ancient poet ought to be . He shows clearly and briefly that " the most ...
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... Professor Colvin for kindly selecting and seeing to the illustrative coins ; to Mr Fanshawe and Professor Postgate for many notes ; and to Dr Waldstein for very valuable information as to the pentathlon . The comparative prominence of ...
... Professor Colvin for kindly selecting and seeing to the illustrative coins ; to Mr Fanshawe and Professor Postgate for many notes ; and to Dr Waldstein for very valuable information as to the pentathlon . The comparative prominence of ...
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... Professor Gardner as to the order in which the contests took placeἅλμα δίσκος ἄκων ( better ἄκων δίσκος ) δρόμος πάλη , and I had anticipated his view of the ephedros in my note on Ol . VIII . 68. I also agree with Prof. Gardner and Dr ...
... Professor Gardner as to the order in which the contests took placeἅλμα δίσκος ἄκων ( better ἄκων δίσκος ) δρόμος πάλη , and I had anticipated his view of the ephedros in my note on Ol . VIII . 68. I also agree with Prof. Gardner and Dr ...
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... Professor Gardner says ( p . 217 ) " A man might be but third in all the three contests I have mentioned , and yet win by wrestling . In this case , why should his statue bear the halteres and his prize - vase contain no allusion to ...
... Professor Gardner says ( p . 217 ) " A man might be but third in all the three contests I have mentioned , and yet win by wrestling . In this case , why should his statue bear the halteres and his prize - vase contain no allusion to ...
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... Professor Paley gives a causative sense to aμeifera in Aesch . Choëph . 965 [ 952 P. ] παντελὴς χρόνος ἀμείψεται | πρόθυρα δωμάτων — on which Paley's note runs ' .... the word has here as in Theb . 851 ( ös aièv dử ̓Αχέροντ ̓ ἀμείβεται ...
... Professor Paley gives a causative sense to aμeifera in Aesch . Choëph . 965 [ 952 P. ] παντελὴς χρόνος ἀμείψεται | πρόθυρα δωμάτων — on which Paley's note runs ' .... the word has here as in Theb . 851 ( ös aièv dử ̓Αχέροντ ̓ ἀμείβεται ...
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