Longer exercises in Latin prose composition, chiefly tr. from the writings of modern Latinists: with an intr. and notes by J.W. Donaldson |
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... means of distinguishing the three relations of personality or successive proximity by the indicative pronouns hic , iste , ille ( Lat . Gr . , 62 ) , but can also make a reference still more perspicuous by means of the distinctive ...
... means of distinguishing the three relations of personality or successive proximity by the indicative pronouns hic , iste , ille ( Lat . Gr . , 62 ) , but can also make a reference still more perspicuous by means of the distinctive ...
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... means as often as each cohort respectively had advanced ; ' but quum quæpiam cohors ex- cesserat ' signifies when some one cohort had sallied forth . ' On the other hand , quidam always denotes an object known , but not named ; like the ...
... means as often as each cohort respectively had advanced ; ' but quum quæpiam cohors ex- cesserat ' signifies when some one cohort had sallied forth . ' On the other hand , quidam always denotes an object known , but not named ; like the ...
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... mean ' in the lowest degree in accordance with what has been said , ' and thus Hand is quite right in rendering it e contrario , im Gegentheil , au con- traire , or quin potius , in all of which there is a comparative negation . Such a ...
... mean ' in the lowest degree in accordance with what has been said , ' and thus Hand is quite right in rendering it e contrario , im Gegentheil , au con- traire , or quin potius , in all of which there is a comparative negation . Such a ...
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... means ' in a manner , in a degree , in a sort , in a kind . ' This theory is overthrown on every side by an ... mean , as Coleman gives it- ' Nay , but he ever was a cross old man ; ' and the same remark applies to Hor . I. Serm . iii ...
... means ' in a manner , in a degree , in a sort , in a kind . ' This theory is overthrown on every side by an ... mean , as Coleman gives it- ' Nay , but he ever was a cross old man ; ' and the same remark applies to Hor . I. Serm . iii ...
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... mean carts loaded with sacks , ' but ' loaded carts together with sacks , ' marking an addition to the weight which the athletic Vinnius Valens was accustomed to support ; and while magná curá curari would express merely the manner ...
... mean carts loaded with sacks , ' but ' loaded carts together with sacks , ' marking an addition to the weight which the athletic Vinnius Valens was accustomed to support ; and while magná curá curari would express merely the manner ...
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