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Nothing More to Lose by Najwan Darwish
epub |eng | 2014-03-23 | Author:Najwan Darwish

Suleiman al-Halabi We remember your hand as we hear of those shaking hands with their executioners You were twenty-four years old when the sun rising over Syria ordered you to ...
( Category: Love Poems August 1,2020 )
In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Desiderius Erasmus

* * * Indexes * * * Index of Latin Words and Phrases Magister Noster: 1 Noster Magister: 1 divum pater atque hominum rex: 1 jus divinum: 1 matula putes: ...
( Category: Renaissance July 29,2020 )
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Plautus
epub |eng | 1965-07-14 | Author:Plautus [Plautus]

EXEUNT THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER (MILES GLORIOSUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER AN incidental allusion in this play (at line 211) to the imprisonment of a ‘foreign’, i. e. Roman, ...
( Category: Renaissance July 26,2020 )
Learn-More-Study-Less by Unknown
mobi |eng | 2020-07-24 | Author:Unknown

For example, let’s say you were in a psychology lecture learning about classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is the process of associating a stimulus and a response and was made famous ...
( Category: Drawing July 26,2020 )
Marcus Aurelius by John Sellars
epub |eng | 2020-07-23 | Author:John Sellars

Here Marcus draws a threefold division between (i) necessary fate (heimarmenê), (ii) providence (pronoia) that can assist, and (iii) blind chaos. He goes on to say that if fate is ...
( Category: Rome July 24,2020 )
The Greek Sophists by John Dillon
epub |eng | 2003-07-31 | Author:John Dillon

FRAGMENTS AND REFERENCES TO KNOWN WORKS It is Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his essay On the Style of Demosthenes, who preserves for us the only substantial fragment that survives of ...
( Category: Anthologies July 17,2020 )
The Loom of Time by Kalidasa
epub |eng | 2006-08-31 | Author:Kalidasa

Chapter Six Nikhil’s Story VIII A FEW days later, my master brought Panchu round to me. His zamindar, it appeared, had fined him a hundred rupees, and was threatening him ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction July 17,2020 )
Catiline's Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories by Sallust
epub |eng | 2010-04-15 | Author:Sallust

41 The custom of parties and factions and, then, of all evil practices arose at Rome a few years before from inactivity and an abundance of those things which mortals ...
( Category: Rome July 17,2020 )
Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus by Thomas Habinek
epub |eng | 2017-11-30 | Author:Thomas Habinek

Quintilian Oratorical Instruction 11.3.51–60 Voice and Breath The voice must not be strained beyond its natural capacity. Strain can make it choke up or become less clear or even make ...
( Category: Greek July 17,2020 )
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
epub |eng | 2007-04-26 | Author:Plautus

A Three-Dollar Day (TRINUMMUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO A THREE-DOLLAR DAY THE Prologue informs us that this play is derived from the Greek of Philemon, and there are reasons for believing ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus
epub |eng | 2004-07-01 | Author:Plautus

EXEUNT THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER (MILES GLORIOSUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER AN incidental allusion in this play (at line 211) to the imprisonment of a ‘foreign’, i. e. Roman, ...
( Category: Renaissance July 17,2020 )
Medieval Writings on Secular Women by Various Authors
epub |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Various Authors

62. A Wife Defends the Property Rights of herself and her Husband, Barcelona, 17 October 987 This document is written against the background of the aftermath of Al-Mansur’s sacking of ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 16,2020 )
The Digest of Roman Law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult by Justinian
epub |eng | 2007-02-22 | Author:Justinian

CONCERNING THEFT BOOK 47, TITLE 2 1. (PAUL) Labeo says that the very word for theft (furtum) is itself derived from a Latin word meaning ‘black’, because it is committed ...
( Category: Comparative Politics July 16,2020 )
Petronius - Satyricon: Seneca - Apocolocyntosis by unknow
epub |eng | 1975-07-15 | Author:unknow

Won’t you come back to life? Won’t you give up your womanly error and enjoy the comforts of life as long as you can? That very corpse lying there should ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature July 16,2020 )
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus & Euripides & Sophocles
epub |eng | 2004-08-26 | Author:Aeschylus & Euripides & Sophocles

Another is now mistress of your husband’s bed; A new queen rules in your house. [Enter JASON.] JASON I’ve often noticed – this is not the first time – What ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )

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