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Page vi
... texts , where it is metrically , logically , and grammatically possible to do so . Of course , each of these terms may and does provoke a controversy as to what really is this or that ; but I think it may be stated generally , that the ...
... texts , where it is metrically , logically , and grammatically possible to do so . Of course , each of these terms may and does provoke a controversy as to what really is this or that ; but I think it may be stated generally , that the ...
Page vii
... texts of ancient authors reconstructed on such unsafe foundations as a flimsy tissue of guess - work are not likely to prove lasting fabrics . And what notions , we may ask , can young students form of the value of Greek Literature , if ...
... texts of ancient authors reconstructed on such unsafe foundations as a flimsy tissue of guess - work are not likely to prove lasting fabrics . And what notions , we may ask , can young students form of the value of Greek Literature , if ...
Page xiii
... texts by the process of emending by the light of our increasing knowledge , does not hold out much encouragement to those who believe in the extensive depravation of the present MSS . Texts founded on such a theory are as shifting and ...
... texts by the process of emending by the light of our increasing knowledge , does not hold out much encouragement to those who believe in the extensive depravation of the present MSS . Texts founded on such a theory are as shifting and ...
Page xiv
... texts , he nevertheless pleads for the necessity of it , if the ancient writers are to be properly understood . " Nihil est sanae rationi perniciosius quam mature assuefieri id , quod male sanum et absurdum est , inepte et temere ...
... texts , he nevertheless pleads for the necessity of it , if the ancient writers are to be properly understood . " Nihil est sanae rationi perniciosius quam mature assuefieri id , quod male sanum et absurdum est , inepte et temere ...
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... texts were familiar to the tragics , find endless difficulties in recon- ciling conflicting accounts . Prof. Jebb , in the Journal of Philology , ii . p . 70 , discusses this passage at some length , and concludes that we should read εἰ ...
... texts were familiar to the tragics , find endless difficulties in recon- ciling conflicting accounts . Prof. Jebb , in the Journal of Philology , ii . p . 70 , discusses this passage at some length , and concludes that we should read εἰ ...
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