 ... woos my willing soul with the spirit of fair-flowing strains." The image of the whetstone recurs in Isthm. v. 72 : if>aitjs KC vw v aKovav "well mightest thou say, such is he among athletes as the stone of Naxos among stones, the grinding whet that...  Pindarou Epinikoi Nemeonikais - Page xviiiby Pindar - 1890 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Literary Criticism - 1907 - 668 pages
...among athletes as the stone of Naxos among stones, the grinding whet that gives an edge to bronze." With regard to this metaphor, as to many others in...characteristic quality of the object which they denoted : eg vavs is "the swimmer," 8pv<;, "the thing which is cleft," &c. Similarly, CUCOJ/iJ is the Bold meta-... | |
 | Lady Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb, Caroline Jebb, Arthur Woollgar Verrall - Classicists - 1907 - 522 pages
...Sofcw e^w TIV eVl yXwcrcro. aKovas Xiyvpas, and so on. "There is a general principle," observes Jebb, which ought, I think, to be clearly perceived. Most...Indo-European nouns expressed some one obvious and 1 Reprinted in Essays and Addresses, p. 41. " Originally in Hellenica, reprinted in Essays and Addresses,... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - Classical philology - 1907 - 530 pages
...original signification of the word. ' Most IndoEuropean nouns', says Jebb (Essay on Pindar, p. 84), expressed some one obvious and characteristic quality of the object which they denoted, eg yavr is "the swimmer", Spvs "the thing which is cleft", etc. Similarly, anovri is the sharpener, xparrip... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Caroline Jebb - 664 pages
...among athletes as the stone of Naxos among stones, the grinding whet that gives an edge to bronze." With regard to this metaphor, as to many others in...characteristic quality of the object which they denoted : eg vavs is "the swimmer," 8pvs, "the thing which is cleft," &c. Similarly, d/coVij is the Bold meta- sharpener,... | |
 | Caroline Jebb - 2018 - 522 pages
...e^a> TIV CTTI .yXwcrcra O-KOVCLS X1yupas, and so on. " There is a general principle," observes Jebb, which ought, I think, to be clearly perceived. Most...Indo-European nouns expressed some one obvious and 1 Reprinted in Essays and Addresses, p. 41. * Originally in Hcllenica, reprinted in Essays and Addresses,... | |
 | Lady Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb, Caroline Jebb, Arthur Woollgar Verrall - Classicists - 1907 - 532 pages
...S6£av ej(<u nv cVl yXwo-cra a/coWs Xiyu/oas, and so on. " There is a general principle," observes Jebb, which ought, I think, to be clearly perceived. Most...Indo-European nouns expressed some one obvious and 1 Reprinted in Essays and Addresses, p. 41. ' Originally in Hellenita, reprinted in Essays and Addresses,... | |
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