A Companion to Greek StudiesLeonard Whibley |
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Page 140 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions; that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 108 - Aeschylus first introduced a second actor; he diminished the importance of the Chorus, and assigned the leading part to the dialogue.
Page 167 - To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not...
Page 160 - He is one of those consoling and hope-inspiring marks, which stand for ever to remind our weak and easily discouraged race how high human goodness and perseverance have once been carried, and may be carried again.
Page 94 - His merits as a Homeric critic are well summed up by Sir Richard Jebb. ' In the dawn of the new scholarship, he appears as a gifted man with a critical aim, but without an adequate critical method. He insisted on the study of Homer's style ; but he failed to place that study on a sound basis. The cause of this was that he often omitted to distinguish between the ordinary usages of words and those peculiar to Homer. In regard to dialect, again, he did not sufficiently discriminate the older from...
Page 201 - ... greatest aids to calculation. It is impossible to say what is the origin of these signs, or where or at what date they came into use. Friedlein thinks they may be really Chaldaean and have belonged to the mediaeval art of horoscopy2, which Noviomagus professed. 43. Calculation seems to have been regularly taught in Greek schools as early as there were any schools at all*. It became also a favourite subject of the Sophists, among whom the polymath, Hippias of Elis, was its most famous professor4....
Page 202 - Geometry is said by many to have been invented among the Egyptians, its origin being due to the measurement of plots of land. This was necessary there because of the rising of the Nile, which obliterated the boundaries appertaining to separate owners.
Page 607 - Quoniam indiculum versuum in urbe Roma non ad liquidum, sed et alibi, avariciae causa non habent integrum, per singulos libros computatis syllabis posui numero xvi versum Virgilianum omnibus libris numerum adscripsi.
Page 203 - Analysis is the obtaining of the thing sought by assuming it and so reasoning up to an admitted truth : synthesis is the obtaining of the thing sought, by reasoning up to the inference and proof of it.
Page 168 - ... the wisest of men. Conscious of his own ignorance, he had at first imagined that the God was mistaken. When, however, experience showed that those who esteemed themselves wise were unable to give an account of their knowledge, he had to admit that, as the oracle had said, he was wiser than others, in so far as, whilst they, being ignorant, supposed themselves to know, he, being ignorant, was aware of his ignorance. Such, according to the Apology, was Socrates's account of his procedure and its...