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... expressions of elevated sentiment was at once a quarry for the moralist and a fit model for the schoolboy . Voltaire has 1 It is well known that there was a legendary history of Alexander current in the Middle Ages ( see Col Yule's ...
... expressions of elevated sentiment was at once a quarry for the moralist and a fit model for the schoolboy . Voltaire has 1 It is well known that there was a legendary history of Alexander current in the Middle Ages ( see Col Yule's ...
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... expression for ambition , and was constantly used to point the moral that great and small alike must ' come to dust ' . As to his personal appearance we are told3 that his well - grown figure indicated great strength and activity ; his ...
... expression for ambition , and was constantly used to point the moral that great and small alike must ' come to dust ' . As to his personal appearance we are told3 that his well - grown figure indicated great strength and activity ; his ...
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... expressions . This reading , being adopted by Zumpt Mützell Foss and Hedicke and having the MSS authority on its side , has been retained . But the sense thus given is feeble in the extreme . Aldus read ab ortu which he probably meant ...
... expressions . This reading , being adopted by Zumpt Mützell Foss and Hedicke and having the MSS authority on its side , has been retained . But the sense thus given is feeble in the extreme . Aldus read ab ortu which he probably meant ...
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... expression seems generally to mean the ' lie of the ground ' viewed with the eye of a general or engineer . See 10 §§ 13 , 23 , IX 2 § 8. Here it seems to mean rather what we call ' the surround- ings ' of the people , that is , the ...
... expression seems generally to mean the ' lie of the ground ' viewed with the eye of a general or engineer . See 10 §§ 13 , 23 , IX 2 § 8. Here it seems to mean rather what we call ' the surround- ings ' of the people , that is , the ...
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... expressing a reasonable inference ( Kennedy § 81 ) , is sometimes used as a simple connecting particle so then ' in resuming the narrative after a digression . Com- pare Tacitus Agr 13 igitur primus omnium ...... , where igitur points ...
... expressing a reasonable inference ( Kennedy § 81 ) , is sometimes used as a simple connecting particle so then ' in resuming the narrative after a digression . Com- pare Tacitus Agr 13 igitur primus omnium ...... , where igitur points ...
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Alexander in India: A Portion of the History Quintus Curtius W. E. Heitland,T. E. Raven No preview available - 2019 |
Alexander in Indi: A Portion of the History of Quintus Curtius (1879) W. E. Heitland,T. E. Raven No preview available - 2008 |
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