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... anec- dote . Among the most precious contents of the Deip- nosophistæ are the numerous quotations introduced from writers now lost , especially from the Greek comic " poets . It has been reckoned that Athenæus quotes above 14 AN ...
... anec- dote . Among the most precious contents of the Deip- nosophistæ are the numerous quotations introduced from writers now lost , especially from the Greek comic " poets . It has been reckoned that Athenæus quotes above 14 AN ...
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... fact or piece of history which had not been pub- lished or put into a book . Thus Cicero , in more than one passage of his writings , speaks of a Book of Anec- dotes on which he was engaged . In one place 22 22 AN INTRODUCTORY TALK.
... fact or piece of history which had not been pub- lished or put into a book . Thus Cicero , in more than one passage of his writings , speaks of a Book of Anec- dotes on which he was engaged . In one place 22 22 AN INTRODUCTORY TALK.
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... Anec- dota . ' This collection is often mentioned as his ' Anec- dota Latina , ' to distinguish it from another of unpublished Greek pieces of a similar character , which he afterwards gave to the world ( in four volumes 4to , 1709-13 ) ...
... Anec- dota . ' This collection is often mentioned as his ' Anec- dota Latina , ' to distinguish it from another of unpublished Greek pieces of a similar character , which he afterwards gave to the world ( in four volumes 4to , 1709-13 ) ...
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... anec- dotes ; and the Scaligerana , for instance , written properly and without abbreviation , would be the Scaliger anecdota , that is , the Scaliger anecdotes . The Scaligerana , however , no more means the Scaliger anecdotes , than ...
... anec- dotes ; and the Scaligerana , for instance , written properly and without abbreviation , would be the Scaliger anecdota , that is , the Scaliger anecdotes . The Scaligerana , however , no more means the Scaliger anecdotes , than ...
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... anec- dotes have been told of other persons . The story of moving the world with a lever , if a fulcrum for it could be found , is as old as the days of Archimedes , or at least of his biographers ; and the egg story , which our Hogarth ...
... anec- dotes have been told of other persons . The story of moving the world with a lever , if a fulcrum for it could be found , is as old as the days of Archimedes , or at least of his biographers ; and the egg story , which our Hogarth ...
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