A Life of Aristotle: Including a Critical Discussion of Some Questions of Literary History Connected with His WorksJ. and J.J. Deighton, 1839 - 181 pages |
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... Greek literature , Greek philosophy , and Greek history , became an essential accomplishment for the fashionable Roman , but this acquaintance was 6 See with reference to Apollodorus and his works , Voss . De Historicis Græcis , p . 132 ...
... Greek literature , Greek philosophy , and Greek history , became an essential accomplishment for the fashionable Roman , but this acquaintance was 6 See with reference to Apollodorus and his works , Voss . De Historicis Græcis , p . 132 ...
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... GREEK LITERATURE FASHIONABLE AT ROME . nothing like the one which Cato and Scipio , which Atticus and Cicero ... Greeks , was the principal subject of their labours ; but indeed there 1 See Juvenal , Sat. vii . 229-236 , of the ...
... GREEK LITERATURE FASHIONABLE AT ROME . nothing like the one which Cato and Scipio , which Atticus and Cicero ... Greeks , was the principal subject of their labours ; but indeed there 1 See Juvenal , Sat. vii . 229-236 , of the ...
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... Greek philosophers ; and to a yet later period , after the processes which we have been describing had been again and again repeated , the Lives by the Pseudo - Ammonius and his anonymous Latin translator and interpolater . If we were ...
... Greek philosophers ; and to a yet later period , after the processes which we have been describing had been again and again repeated , the Lives by the Pseudo - Ammonius and his anonymous Latin translator and interpolater . If we were ...
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... ( the ancient Caprea ) which lies off Sorrento , is curious , and seems to favour the account of Frontinus , that Sur- rentum was originally colonized by Greeks . 2 HIS FAMILY . 13 vantages of civilization which Grecian CHAPTER II. ...
... ( the ancient Caprea ) which lies off Sorrento , is curious , and seems to favour the account of Frontinus , that Sur- rentum was originally colonized by Greeks . 2 HIS FAMILY . 13 vantages of civilization which Grecian CHAPTER II. ...
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... Greek towns3 , among which were Olynthus and Potidea , was readily accessible . With the former of these Stagirus appears to have been leagued as a humble ally in that resistance to the ambitious designs of Philip which terminated so ...
... Greek towns3 , among which were Olynthus and Potidea , was readily accessible . With the former of these Stagirus appears to have been leagued as a humble ally in that resistance to the ambitious designs of Philip which terminated so ...
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