Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Volume 50

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Beginning with v. 31, the proceedings and papers of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast are included.
 

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Page 144 - Ut solet a magno fluctus languescere flatu, Sed tamen a vento, qui fuit, unda tumet, Sic quamvis aberat placitae praesentia formae, Quern dederat praesens forma, manebat amor. Ardet, et iniusti stimulis agitatur amoris. Comparat indigno vimque dolumque toro. " Exitus in dubio est : audebimus ultima ! " dixit, "Viderit, audentes forsne deusne iuvet. Cepimus audendo Gabios quoque.
Page lvi - MEETINGS. 1. There shall be an annual meeting of the Association in the city of New York, or at such other place as at a preceding annual meeting shall be determined upon. 2. At the annual meeting, the Kxecutivc Committee shall present an annual report of the progress of the Association.
Page 22 - ... for larger and more imposing assemblages then or now, in crowded December days. The membership, which fell just short of 400 in 1894, had grown to 589 in 1904, the latter figure including 84 members of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, which had been organized in December, 1899, and affiliated with the parent Association by action taken at the Madison meeting of 1900. This establishment of a distinct section of the Association on the other coast must be accounted one of the most...
Page 46 - This emigre may write graceful and pretty verses, essays, novels; but he will never do work to compare with that of his brother, who is strong enough to stand on his own feet, and do his work as an American. Thus it is with the scientist who spends his youth in a German university, and can thenceforth work only in the fields already fifty times furrowed by the German plows.
Page 163 - If you read all the books of the philosophers you cannot help finding in them some part of the vessels of God. In Plato, for instance, God as the fashioner of the world ; in Zeno, the chief of the Stoics, the departed and immortal souls, and virtue as the sole good,
Page 155 - I was asked to state my condition and replied that I was a Christian. But He who presided said: "Thou liest; thou art a Ciceronian, not a Christian. 'For where thy treasure is there will thy heart be also.
Page 128 - Romae, pontifici maiori, quinde|cemviro sf, multis legationibus | pro amplissimis ordinis desideriis | apud divos principes functo, qui ' primus in senatu sententiam roga|ri solitus auctoritate prudentia atq. | eloquentia pro dignitate tanti ordi|nis magnitudinem loci eius inpleve|rit, etc.
Page 135 - JOHN C. ROLFE UNIVERSITY OP PENNSYLVANIA IN view of the paucity of really great names in the literary annals of the fourth Christian century, one need hardly offer an apology for selecting Claudian as a representative of that epoch. His activity, however, as indicated both by his surviving works and by the absence of any other evidence, comes at the very end of the century and extends an equal distance into the next ; in other words, covers the years 395 to 404. Claudian's works, and the scanty amount...
Page xix - The minutes of the last annual meeting were approved as printed in the Publications of the Modern Language Association and in the Transactions of the American Philological Association.
Page 125 - AD) : luliano ad idolorum cultum converse blanda persecutio fuit inliciens magis quam impellens ad sacrificandum in qua multi ex nostris voluntate propria conruerunt ; Eutr.

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