The Phormio of TerenceMacmillan, 1884 - 156 pages |
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Andr Andria Antipho Apollodorus argentum Athens Bembine Bentl Bentley best better Capt change character Chremes codd comedy comic common DEMIPHO Dorio Dziatzko early eius Ellipse ésse ést first form found Geta girl given good Greek Guyet have Heaut Hecyra hercle hóc house iambici octonarii infr istuc language later Latin libri life locative make means Menander Menander's mihi money Munro on Lucr Nausistrata neque níl nón note nunc ómnia Parry Peile perhaps Phaedria Phanium Phormio phrase Plaut Plautus play plays poets point quí quíd quód quom quotes read reading reads rell Ribbeck right Ritschl Roby Roman same says Scapin sense sine slave Soph supr Terence Terence's text tibi times Trin trochaici septenarii true uero Umpf used Varro Verg Wagn Wagner word words writers young
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Page 138 - Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Page 85 - ... visceribus, sacrum tibi quod non reddat amicus depositum. stupet haec, qui iam post terga reliquit ' sexaginta annos, Fonteio consule natus. an nihil in melius tot rerum proficit usus?
Page xi - Nam quod isti dicunt malevoli, homines nobiles Hunc adiutare assidueque una scribere ; Quod illi maledictum vehemens esse existumant, Earn laudem hie ducit maxumam, quom illis placet Qui vobis univorsis et populo placent, Quorum opera in bello, in otio, in negotio Suo quisque temj)ore usus est sine superbia.
Page 125 - ... nolo ego mihi te tarn prospicere, qui meam egestatem leves, sed ut inops infamis ne sim, ne mi hanc famam differant, me germanam meam sororem in concubinatum tibi, si sine dote <dem>, dedisse magis quam in matrimonium. quis me improbior perhibeatur esse?
Page xxx - Writers j the oldest and best Copy of him is now in the Vatican Library, which comes nearest to the Poet's own hand: but even That has Hundreds of Errors, most of which may be mended out of other Exemplars, that are otherwise more recent and of inferior value. I...
Page 125 - Graeca fabula senex hoc dicit: "quid interest me non suscepisse filiam, si modo dos dabitur alienae?" What then is the difference between the original and the imitation? It is that the abandoning of a child, which in Terence's play gives the impression of fiction — for Geta lies from A to Z, so that we are inclined to assume that the repartee, too, with which he says he has given Phormio a taking...
Page 85 - Lucius, let me bring him down at a long shot— a long shot, Sir Lucius, if you love me!
Page 109 - Because we do not spread nets for hawks and kites that do us harm ; the net is for the harmless birds. The fact is, pigeons may be plucked — hawks and kites mock our pains. Various dangers beset people who can be pilfered — I am known to have nothing. You will say : ' They will get a writ of habeas corpus'.
Page xxx - Terence is now in one of the best conditions of any of the classic writers; the oldest and best copy of him is now in the Vatican Library, which comes...
Page 91 - The abl. and not the gen. is used of the characteristic parts of a thing or person (especially of the bodily parts), and of its temporary state. Both (though in Cic. chiefly the abl.) are used of mental qualities.