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Roots and branches: observations on trees, languages, lexicography, etymology, etc., by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173). All original material copyrighted.
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6 September 2010 | 7:16 am
Will Broadhead, "Colonization, Land Distribution, and Veteran Settlement," in Paul Erdkamp, ed., A Companion to the Roman Army (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 148-163 (at 161):Traditional colonization [...]
Will Broadhead, "Colonization, Land Distribution, and Veteran Settlement," in Paul Erdkamp, ed., A Companion to the Roman Army (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 148-163 (at 161):Traditional colonization [...]
5 September 2010 | 10:24 am
Baltasar Gracián, Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia 192 (tr. Christopher Maurer):A peaceable person is a long-lived one. To live, let live. Peaceable people not only live, they reign. Listen and se [...]
Baltasar Gracián, Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia 192 (tr. Christopher Maurer):A peaceable person is a long-lived one. To live, let live. Peaceable people not only live, they reign. Listen and se [...]
5 September 2010 | 10:21 am
Richard Chenevix Trench, On the Study of Words, 18th ed. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1882), pp. 143-144 (Lecture IV):Certain theologians in the Middle Ages were termed Schoolmen; having been formed an [...]
Richard Chenevix Trench, On the Study of Words, 18th ed. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1882), pp. 143-144 (Lecture IV):Certain theologians in the Middle Ages were termed Schoolmen; having been formed an [...]
4 September 2010 | 7:15 am
Walter Pope (1628-1714), The Old Man's Wish:If I live to grow old (for I find I go down),Let this be my fate in a Country Town;Let me have a warm house, with a stone at the gate,And a cleanly young gi [...]
Walter Pope (1628-1714), The Old Man's Wish:If I live to grow old (for I find I go down),Let this be my fate in a Country Town;Let me have a warm house, with a stone at the gate,And a cleanly young gi [...]
3 September 2010 | 7:27 am
Wallace Stevens, The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm:The house was quiet and the world was calm.The reader became the book; and summer nightWas like the conscious being of the book.The house wa [...]
Wallace Stevens, The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm:The house was quiet and the world was calm.The reader became the book; and summer nightWas like the conscious being of the book.The house wa [...]
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