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... things , so as to help the tale over difficult places . This idea is not original with me ; I got it out of Herodotus . Herodotus says : " Very few things happen at the right time , and the rest do not happen at all . The conscientious ...
... things , so as to help the tale over difficult places . This idea is not original with me ; I got it out of Herodotus . Herodotus says : " Very few things happen at the right time , and the rest do not happen at all . The conscientious ...
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... things said and things done . While his criteria for each class were different , he considers it equally his duty with the things done to record the things said . The speeches are the parts of his History which he has elaborated with ...
... things said and things done . While his criteria for each class were different , he considers it equally his duty with the things done to record the things said . The speeches are the parts of his History which he has elaborated with ...
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... thing the audience already knew ! When Telemachus visited Nestor he at once blocked the telling of familiar tales by ... things which are already known to the other . His own audience knew the story of the Iliad , hence knew of Odysseus ...
... thing the audience already knew ! When Telemachus visited Nestor he at once blocked the telling of familiar tales by ... things which are already known to the other . His own audience knew the story of the Iliad , hence knew of Odysseus ...
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