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Persius' debt to Horace.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
In the comparison of the Satires of Persius with those of Horace it will be found that there are many similar passages. Some of these passages are alike in thought, while others contain the same group of words, but the ...
The use of faxo and obsecro in Plautus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
In the reading of Plautus one notices many words used paratactically which in classical Latin subordinate the following clause. Prominent among these words are faxo and obsecro, and it is the purpose of this paper to discuss ...
Horace's attitude toward the orientalization of Rome
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
It has ever been the history of empire-development that nations face the West. Babylon, snugly esconced in the fertile Tigro-Euphrates valley, subdued its eastern neighbor, the Elamites, rose to power in wealth and court ...
Alliteration in the hexameter books of Lucilius
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
It is very evident (1) that Lucilius used the device of alliteration, (2) that he used it very freely, and (3) that he must have used it purposely. In general, his alliteration means nothing, though occasionally it does ...
Horace as a nature poet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
In order to be called a true poet of nature, one must possess a deep appreciation and love for the natural world, and the ability to express this feeling in beautiful and appropriate verse. The men who have attained fame ...
Religion of Tibullus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
Tibullus is generally considered a poet sincere and devout in his religion; for he is constantly invoking the presence of the divinities, vowing sacrifice to them, and dwelling upon their beneficence to mankind. It is the ...
Some word-grouping in Lucan's Pharsalia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
The first century after Christ, known as the Silver Age of Roman Literature, was marked by a brutal despotism, which stifled all independent intellectual life. Affectation and hypocrisy were the result of the embargo laid ...
Some examples of repetition in Terence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
The cumulation of synonyms, that is, the use within a sentence of words similar in meaning but different in form, and the securing of various sound effects by the collocation of words different in meaning but similar in ...
Senex in Plautus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
Among the principal characters that crowd the busy stage of Plautus, none are more vital to the action than the old gentlemen. But while the women of Plautus have received lengthy treatment at the hands of Le Benoist in ...
Puns in Plautus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
A pun is commonly defined as an expression in which the use of a word in two different applications, or the use of two different words pronounced alike or nearly alike, presents an odd or ludicrous idea. But time and again ...
A comparison of the Dido story of the Aeneid IV with the Ariadne episode in Catullus LXIV
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
When considering carefully the Epyllion of Catullus and Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, can we say that Virgil was influenced by Catullus? It seems to me we are justified in saying this. Certainly it would not be fair to say ...
Athena and Ares and a comparison of the two as divinities of war
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1905)
The aim of this paper will be to set forth the conception of Athena as found in the principal early sources of Greek mythology, namely the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer; the Theogonia, Works and Days, and Shield of Heracles, ...
Euripides' idea of God and his attitude toward contemporary religion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1901)
What were the ideas which Euripides entertained in regard to the divine government of the universe and an over ruling deity and what attitude did he sustain toward the gods of Greece as commonly accepted in his time? This ...
The essay in Greek literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
That the essay is a form of literature created by Montaigne, that it was unknown before him, and is distinctively modern, is a theory generally prevalent among the literary public of our time. But it is altogether contrary ...
The use of simul, simulac (atque) and synonyms, cum primum, ut primum and ubi primum, from the Ciceronian period on
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1905)
A language when compared to a people shows many points of similarity. Though both are continuous themselves, each is made up of individual units that have their birth, growth and death, but in the case of words, as not in ...
The use of the fable in Roman satire
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
It is the purpose of this paper to collect, discuss, and as far as possible to trace to their origin the fables which are used in Latin Satire. The term Satire has been used throughout the discussion to designate those ...
Double expressions in the speeches of Sallust
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
There is no doubt that the speeches in Sallust's histories are not quoted exactly but that, in accordance with the custom prevailing in classical times, words are put into the mouth of the speaker which might have been ...
The Homeric house in the light of recent excavations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
The purpose of this paper is to give a detailed description of the Homeric house, according to the information to be had from the Homeric poems, and to compare it with other palaces of early antiquity, such as those of ...
Study of the rhetorical figures in the odes of Horace
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
The purpose of this paper is a study of the more important Figures of Rhetoric as found in the Four Books of the Odes of Horace. While editors of Horace have, in their editions, here and there pointed out scattered instances ...
A comparison of Cicero's style in his early and late orations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
Cicero's oratorical activity extends over a period of thirty-eight years. His first oration pro P. Quinctio belongs to the year 81 B.C., his last ones in M. Antonium orationes Phillippicae I-XIV to the years 44 and 43 B.C. ...