...Aristotle's On Interpretation (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or Peri Hermeneias) or De Interpretatione (the Latin title) is the second of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. On Interpretation is one of the earliest surviving ...

Languages, Classics (antiquity)

...s a Frenchman; his name was Blaise. The child could talk to him in his own language perfectly well: he knew it better than English indeed, having live... ...her and relations at Ealing; what his old grandfather had taught him; what languages he knew; whether he could read and write, and sing, and so forth.... ...heir perplexity. “What are these?” says one. “They’re written in a foreign language,” says the lawyer. “What are you laughing at, little whelp?” adds ... ...s indeed—it’s treason, I would lay a wager,” cries the lawyer. “Egad! it’s Greek to me,” says Captain Westbury. “Can you read it, little boy?” “Y es, ... ...at chair on which he was sitting between him and her— saying in the French language to Lady Castlewood, with whom the young lad had read much, and who... ... eagerly about their progress 93 Thackeray in books. Tom had learned some Greek and Hebrew, besides Latin, in which he was pretty well skilled, and a... ...h the horrors of war. These are indicated rather than described; as in the Greek tragedies, that, I dare say, you have read (and sure there can be no ... ...sputed chief of it; backing his opinion with a score of pat sentences from Greek and Ro- man authorities (of which kind of learning he made rather an ... ...st be owned that Mr. St. John sometimes rather acted like a Turkish than a Greek philosopher, and especially fell foul of one unfortunate set of men, ...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volume wi...

...Smyrnaeus (“Quintus of Smyrna”) Fl. 4th Century A.D. Originally written in Greek, sometime about the middle of the 4 th Century A.D. Translation b... ... T roy” (Loeb Classics #19; Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1913). Greek text with side by side English translation. INTRODUCTION Homer’s ... ...aterials? The German critic unhesitatingly answers, “from Homer.” As regards language, versification, and general spirit, the matter is beyond contro ... ...te: but, whatever theory we adopt, it must be based on mere conjecture. The Greek text here given is that of Koechly (1850) with many of Zimmermann’s... ...d Fates Thrusting her on into the battle, doomed To be her first against the Greeks — and last! To right, to left, with unreturning feet The T rojan t... ... who still was holding back These from the battle tumult far away, Till many Greeks should fill the measure up Of woeful havoc, slain by T rojan foes ...

...befell. The Aeneid Virgil 29 “By destiny compell’d, and in despair, The Greeks grew weary of the tedious war, And by Minerva’s aid a fabric rear’d,... ...lly stood. The sides, transpierc’d, return a rattling sound, And groans of Greeks inclos’d come issuing thro’ the wound And, had not Heav’n the fall o... ... empire stood. Meantime, with shouts, the Trojan shepherds bring A captive Greek, in bands, before the king; Taken to take; who made himself their pre... ...ans flow; All press to see, and some insult the foe. Now hear how well the Greeks their wiles disguis’d; Behold a nation in a man compris’d. Trembling... ...rimes, Because these fatal wars he would prevent; Whose death the wretched Greeks too late lament Me, then a boy, my father, poor and bare Of other m... ...on be the same; But let the Latins still retain their name, Speak the same language which they spoke before, Wear the same habits which their grandsir...

...occur:— “How can one praise and glorify a nation as a whole?— Even among the Greeks, it was the individuals that counted.” “The Greeks are interesting... ...he relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the con- ditions were unusually favourable for the development of ... ...ristianity, whereby the whole of the deified mode of life and thought of the Greeks, as well as strong Romedom, was almost annihilated or transvalued ... ...things which finally induced my brother to set forth his new views in poetic language. In regard to his first conception of this idea, his autobiograp... ...ainst laws and customs. This sign I give unto you: every people speaketh its language of good and evil: this its neighbour understandeth not. Its lang... ...e hath it devised for itself in laws and customs. But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever ... ...len teeth it biteth, the biting one. False are even its bowels. Confusion of language of good and evil; this sign I give unto you as the sign of the s... ...o one shall thy jealous soul love, except a friend”— that made the soul of a Greek thrill: thereby went he his way to greatness. “To speak truth, and ... ...e means to power. Needless to say that verses 9, 10, 11, and 12 refer to the Greeks, the Persians, the Jews, and the Germans respectively. In the penu...

...old me that in these notions of theirs, which I was just now mentioning, the Greek physicians are quite right as far as they go; but Zamolxis, he adde... ... Is not that true? Yes, he said, that I think is true. Y ou know your native language, I said, and therefore you must be able to tell what you feel ab... ...t be temperate. Nay (The English reader has to observe that the word ‘make’ (Greek), in Greek, has also the sense of ‘do’ (Greek).), said he; did I ev... ...h is proper to a man, and that which is his own, good; and that the makings (Greek) of the good you would call doings (Greek), for I am no stranger to... ...ses, is hardly conceivable. The use of the genitive after the comparative in Greek, creates an unavoidable obscu rity in the translation.) Yes. Which...

...st by Richard HENRY DANA 1840 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . .... ...aid he. I satisfied him on that point by saying that he could speak no language but the German and English. ‘‘I’m plaguy glad o’ dat,’’ sai... ...to and fro, we gained considerable knowledge of the character, dress, and language of the people. The dress of the men was as I have before describ... ...ves Castilians, they are very ambi- tious of speaking the pure Castilian language, which is spoken in a somewhat corrupted dialect by the lower c... ... elegant Spanish. It was a plea- sure, simply to listen to the sound of the language, before I could attach any meaning to it. They have a good deal ... ...t George had been at college, (probably a naval one, as he knew no Latin or Greek,) where he learned French and mathe- matics. He was by no means th...

...e Woods HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1864 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the 1864 Ticknor ... ...es close at hand. Joe said that they called the chicadee kecunnilessu in his language. I will not vouch for the spelling of what possibly was never sp... ...did not learn whether this word was Indian or English. It reminded me of the Greek kogche, a conch or shell, and I amused myself with fancying that it... ... and, when they did not talk with us, kept up a steady chatting in their own language. We heard a small bird just after dark, which, Joe said, sang at... ...stinct and comparatively aboriginal race, than to hear this unaltered Indian language, which the white man cannot speak nor understand. We may suspect... ...y suspect change and deterioration in almost every other particular, but the language which is so wholly unintelligible to us. It took me by surprise,... ...would sing us a Latin song; but we did not detect any Latin, only one or two Greek words in it, — the rest may have been Latin with the Indian pronunc...

...e rightly di- 11 George Meredith rected by benevolent attraction. This is language derided by the victorious enemy; it speaks nevertheless what the w... ... his own soldiers carry him away with his trophy! Does not this sound like Greek history repeated—does it not look as if the brave men of old had been...

...children, and burnt and wrecked dwellings, excuse a good deal of vio- lent language, and produce a wrath on which many suns go down before it is appea... ...among us, the shock was not the less appalling because a few stu- dents of Greek history were not surprised by it. Indeed these students threw themsel... ...lence, and declaring that no English child should ever again be taught the language of Luther and Goethe, were kept in countenance by the most impu- d... ...us life; but what does it end in? Respectability. A ladylike daughter. The language and appearance of a city missionary. Let it be a warning to all of...

...ar fellow. Y ou see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian cou... ..., “because I have a detestation for all the French, and the same for their language which I cannot support to hear spoken.... We in Moscow are elated ... ...poleon wished to come to Moscow, grew angry, abused the French in very bad language, came out of the drink shop, and, under the sign of the eagle, beg... ...a position j’ai des devoirs,”* said Helene changing from Russian, in which language she always felt that her case did not sound quite clear, into Fren... ...rs formed of him soon after his arrival at the shed. With his knowledge of languages, the re- spect shown him by the French, his simplicity, his readi... ...racteristic of genius. Even that final running away, described in ordinary language as the lowest depth of baseness which every child is taught to be ... ...e masses. In- stead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jew- ish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing ...

...courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity Till all his Greek and Latin learning seemed A long blast upon the horn that brought A l... ...s because I lay about me with the taws That night and morning I may thrash Greek Alexander from my flesh, Augustus Caesar, and after these That great r... ...00 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS II Ribh Denounces Patrick An abstract Greek absurdity has crazed the man — Recall that masculine Trinity. Man, wo... ...und Like a dumb beast in a show. Neither know what I am Nor where I go, My language beaten Into one name; I am in love And that is my shame. What hurt...

...stance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials with the English – of which I will go b... ... and a half ago the Highlander wore a different costume, spoke a different language, worshipped in another church, held dif- ferent morals, and obeyed... ...trick. They had been in Ireland, stationed among men of their own race and language, where they were well liked and treated with affec- tion; but it w... ...ga- tive from nearer home. Is it common education, common morals, a common language or a common faith, that join men into nations? There were practica... ...again, they have Professor Butcher, and I hear he has a prodigious deal of Greek; and they have Professor Chrystal, who is a man filled with the mathe... ...in the professor’s own hand, I cannot remember to have been present in the Greek class above a dozen times. Professor Blackie was even kind enough to ... ...al of trouble to put in exercise – perhaps as much as would have taught me Greek – and sent me forth into the world and the profession of letters with... ...ast, from which my truantry protected me. I am sorry indeed that I have no Greek, but I should be sorrier still if I were dead; nor do I know the name... ...ough he read little, was constant to his favourite books. He had never any Greek; Latin he happily re-taught himself after he had left school, where h...