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Achilles Adventures of Odysseus Adventures of Orestes Agamemnon annals of Dictys Byzantine versions Capture of Troy century Chennos chronicle cites Crete Dares and Dictys Dares Phrygius Death of Polydoros derived Dictaean Dictys Cretensis Dictys-annals Dictys-citation Diomedes Dunger Ekloge Epis episode Epistle evidence frag Greek Dictys Greek Forays Greif Haupt Hecuba Homer Idomeneus incidents John of Antioch Kedr Kedrenos Koerting Latin authors Latin Dictys Latin Ephemeris Latin text Memnon Menelaus Neoptolemus Noack Odysseus Oxford text Palamedes Palladion Palladion-strife passage Patzig Byz Penthesilea Perizonius Philol Philostratos Polydoros portion Portraits pre-Homeric Priam Prol Prologue Pyrrhos Rape of Helen redactor regard relates reproduction Salm Salmasian Septimius Ship-catalogue Siege of Troy Sisyphos story Suidas Teucer Teucer and Pyrrhos translation Trojan Trojan War Tzetzes versions of Dictys Youth of Paris δὲ Δίκτυς ἐν καὶ κτλ τὰ τῆς τοῦ τῷ τῶν Χρονογραφία
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Page 7 - Nulla poetarum posuit figmenta, Daretis Historiam soliti scribere vera tenens. Et Phrygius fuit iste Dares et tempore belli Ipse quidem miles proelia visa refert.
Page 6 - Leyden, p. 319. See the Early English Text Society's ed. of Lyndesay, p. 264, 1. 45. As Lyndesay mentions several of the stories named in the Complaynt, it may be as well to quote his lines here : — More plesandlie the tyme for tyll ouerdryue, 32 I haue, at lenth, the storeis done discryue Off Hectour, Arthour, and gentyll lulyus, Off Alexander, and worthy Pompeyus, Off lasone and Media, all at lenth, 36 Off Hercules the actis honorabyll, And of Sampsone the supernaturall strenth, And of leill...
Page 116 - Graeci omnes diverso tarnen inter se sermone agunt, cum ne nos quidem unius eiusdemque insulae simili lingua sed varia permixtaque utamur.
Page 9 - Haec ego Gnosius Dictys comes Idomenei conscripsi oratione ea, quam maxime inter tarn diversa loquendi genera consequi ac comprehendere potui, litteris Pu- ю nicis ab Cadmo Danaoque traditis.
Page 85 - That such is the case is shown by the fact that in contracted specimens the cuticula is much thicker anterior to the pore and is thrown into many fine wrinkles.
Page 39 - Ulixes Agamemnon ac Menelaus custodiam sui augere et quo tutiores essent, summa ope invigilare. at ubi nox aderat discedentes uno ore omnes lacerare utrumque regem neque abstinere maledictis, quippe quis magis libido desideriumque in femina 25 quam summa militiae potiora forent. at lucis principio Aiacem in medio exanimem offendunt perquirentesque mortis genus animadvertere ferro interfectum. inde ortus per duces atque exercitum tumultus ingens ac dein seditio brevi adulta, cum ante so iam Palameden...
Page 6 - Notwithstanding a total lack of intrinsic literary merit, Dares and Dictys enjoyed throughout the Middle Ages a widespread popularity...
Page 113 - Cat. (51, 34) : . . . neque prius finis iugulandi fuit quam Sulla omnis suos divitiis explevit.
Page 112 - ... perabat, neque tamen aberat ab eo vis quaedam inconsulta et effera morum inpatientia. cum eo PaXIII Malal. 134 Cedren. P 127 7 couendum Gl 8 diligitur G.
Page 113 - ... hinc Aethiopas cum Troianis per omnem campum sine ordine atque imperio fugientes multitudine ac festinatione inter se implicari cadere ac mox palantibus equis proculcari , hinc so Graecos resumptis animis sequi caedere impeditosque dissolvere atque ita confedere laxatos. redundant circa muros campi sanguine, et omnia, qua hostis intraverat, armis atque cadaveribus completa sunt. in ea pugna Priami filiorum...