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... Latin , since the divergences are so great as to be apparent even to those of us who have only the quite mediocre knowledge of the language current today . Descartes was accustomed to using Latin as his second language during his long ...
... Latin , since the divergences are so great as to be apparent even to those of us who have only the quite mediocre knowledge of the language current today . Descartes was accustomed to using Latin as his second language during his long ...
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... Latin style . Ancient Greek has a greater range of participles and in- finitives than any other Western Indo - European language ; in that re- spect it differs totally from Latin , and , moreover , to judge from the easy dialogue ...
... Latin style . Ancient Greek has a greater range of participles and in- finitives than any other Western Indo - European language ; in that re- spect it differs totally from Latin , and , moreover , to judge from the easy dialogue ...
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... Latin or Greek , so that in even so simple - seeming a period as Gibbon's , there are im- plicit gaps among what classical Latin was actually like , what vari- ous eighteenth - century Englishmen took Latin phonology to be , and what ...
... Latin or Greek , so that in even so simple - seeming a period as Gibbon's , there are im- plicit gaps among what classical Latin was actually like , what vari- ous eighteenth - century Englishmen took Latin phonology to be , and what ...
Contents
JOHN PORTER HOUSTON | 25 |
PHYLLIS K LEFFLER AND ELIZABETH M TILTON | 57 |
ROGER DUCHENE | 75 |
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