Lucian: How do Grammarians hack and slash for the Genitive case in Jupiter?
Moreover the teaching of the grammarians can contribute to life, provided it has been applied to its higher uses.
Later grammarians can hardly find language strong enough to describe their improprieties.
What the Roman grammarians sanctioned was carried in the dotage of culture to Byzantium.
His admiration for Aristotle was great; but he acknowledges that the Aristotelian rules are useless without natural talent, and that a poet's liberty cannot be bound within the narrow limits prescribed by grammarians and philosophers.
His analysis and systematization of the figures were immediately accepted by the scholars and grammarians of his time, and have played a large part in French education ever since.
This hypothesis is certainly simpler than the complicated hypothesis of the grammarians who teach that the spho/t/a is the word.
The native Latin grammarians slight the stress accentuation and pay much attention instead to the variations in pitch.
The name Iambelegus was given to the verse because the ancient grammarians regarded it as a dactylic pentameter for the first half of which an iambic colon had been substituted.
In admitting the trochee and iambus in the first foot, Catullus follows Greek models, while Horace adheres to the stricter Roman usage, as laid down by the grammarians of his own day.
The Latin grammarians prescribe the circumflex (90) for all these long syllables.
But the Roman grammarians misunderstood the Greek terms, supposing them to refer to the lowering and raising of the voice, and so interchanged them.
Most of the Roman grammarians who discussed the nature of the Saturnian seem to have regarded it as quantitative.
Some grammarians would include under Synizesis only cases in which a short vowel is subordinated to a following long; as #tu͡o#.
It includes elision and synizesis, though some grammarians use it in the same sense as synizesis.
And now, to leave the poets, and speak of those grammarians to whose corrections we owe, I suppose, the texts of the Greek poets as they now stand.
There was a curious fashion among certaingrammarians and mathematicians of Old India which may be mentioned here.
The Indian grammarians who devised this complete and scientific system must have had ears almost as sharp as those of the boy in the old story who was said to be able to hear the grass growing.
Indian grammarians carefully noted in what parts of the throat and mouth the different sounds of their language were made, and, for convenience, they systematized their ample alphabet on this admirable plan.
The greater part of the section on grammarians and rhetoricians is extant, as are the lives of Terence, Horace, and Lucan from the section on poets, and that of Pliny the elder from the section on historians.
Under the Antonines, rhetoricians and grammarians were numerous, and discussions of literary and grammatical questions formed a considerable part of polite conversation.
Among the grammarians of this time, the most important was Quintus Remmius Palaemon, whose grammar (Ars Grammatica) was much used by the later writer Charisius.
Grammarians are not poets by profession, but may be so per accidens.
The eminent grammarians of the age, Aemilius Asper, Marcus Valerius Probus, Quintus Asconius Pedianus, show the same tendency; their main work was in commenting on the great Latin writers.
Extracts are quoted from it by the grammarians as specimens of the language of the period.
Where there was so little productive genius, it was natural that grammarians and commentators should abound.
The lectures of grammarians and rhetoricians, of philosophers and physicians, were largely attended.
But some good grammariansprefer to explain such a =que si= on the principle of the note on p.
This use of =cuyo= for =el cual= is pronounced improper by the best grammarians (e.
English representations of certain well-understood Greek tenses: while the proposed substitutes are nothing else but the pedantic efforts of mere grammarians to reproduce in another language idioms which it abhors.
On all the subjects on which we conferred they gave me pictures--which were the writings anciently in use among them--and these the grammarians interpreted to me in their language, writing the interpretation at the foot of the picture.
They are susceptible of three Degrees of Comparison; and are, without due consideration, usually regarded by Grammarians as if they constituted the whole of the Adjective World.
It is over this class of Adjectives that the Grammarians dispute.
Between the mythopoeic liberty of creation and the collections of the grammarians was interposed the poetry, the sculpture, and the religious ritual of the historic Greeks.
Since so many of our grammarians conceive that interjections require or govern cases, it may be proper to cite some who teach otherwise.
What then shall be thought of the explanations which our grammarians have given of this degree of comparison?
Some grammarians suppose such participles to be put absolute in themselves, so as to have no reference to any noun or pronoun; others, among whom are L.
What notions are inculcated by different grammarians about the introductory word there?
Do the Latin grammarians agree in their enumeration of the concords in Latin?
In short, Syllepsis is a conception of whichgrammarians have conceived so variously, that it has become doubtful, what definition or what application of the term is now the most appropriate.
With due deference to those grammarians who have adopted one or the other of these methods, the author of this work answers all these questions decidedly in the negative.
In fact, the old subdivision of grammar, inherited from the grammarians of Rome and Alexandria, must be given up and a new one put in its place.
Latin grammars were soon modelled upon it, and the attempt to translate the technical terms of the Greek grammarians into Latin was productive of numerous blunders which have been perpetuated to our own day.
The grammarians of that tongue say that this adds extension and emphasis to the sense of the verb.
The grammarians call such an expression a tense indicating habit.
Abu 'l-Aswad Ad-Duwali thus is the father of this book, for had there been no grammarians I am sure that Ibn Khallikan would never have written it.
And there is one question about which grammarians are not agreed, namely, whether the nominative or the objective form should be used in the predicate after was, is, are, and the other forms of the verb be.
Though many other grammarians could be named, such as Al-Akhfash al Ausat, Abu Amr as Shaibani, Abu Bakr al Anbari, etc.
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