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Page 38
... passage which he thinks corrupt or spurious . He tries to think what the author should have said . If he has not the Greek words at hand , there is near by an English - Greek or German - Greek lexicon , and the passage is healed . Most ...
... passage which he thinks corrupt or spurious . He tries to think what the author should have said . If he has not the Greek words at hand , there is near by an English - Greek or German - Greek lexicon , and the passage is healed . Most ...
Page 99
... passage in either poem ; it can be mastered by any intelligent person in a short time . If a knowledge of Greek ... passages , and he asked me for my translation ; then other similar letters came . I wrote and advised him to take up the ...
... passage in either poem ; it can be mastered by any intelligent person in a short time . If a knowledge of Greek ... passages , and he asked me for my translation ; then other similar letters came . I wrote and advised him to take up the ...
Page 167
... passage , often noted , he cannot hear any prayers because he has gone off to feast with the blameless Aethiopians . In the Aeneid he is divine , in a quite real sense : dignified , sympathetic , and at times in- scrutable , as the ...
... passage , often noted , he cannot hear any prayers because he has gone off to feast with the blameless Aethiopians . In the Aeneid he is divine , in a quite real sense : dignified , sympathetic , and at times in- scrutable , as the ...
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