This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...the cases, the numbers, the prepositions with each other; adverbs and nouns; ablatives and participles; prepositions and participles; the person, tense ami voice of verbs; the present partic. and abl. of the gerund; the subjunctive and the periphrastic infln. of the gerundive; the iufin. pres. passive and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...the cases, the numbers, the prepositions with each other; adverbs and nouns; ablatives and participles; prepositions and participles; the person, tense ami voice of verbs; the present partic. and abl. of the gerund; the subjunctive and the periphrastic infln. of the gerundive; the iufin. pres. passive and the periphrastic infln.; a noun and a following subordinate clause; an adjective or participle and a final clause; conditional and final or temporal clauses; persons and things.--Draeger. 3d. Poetical complexion. This includes: The avoiding of many names of material objects, technical terms and foreign words, expressing the ideas they dejiote by some indirect phrase or word; and the use of words, meanings, constructions and arrangement, which had been peculiar to the poets. Of grammatical variation from prose usage the widest in range is a tendency to do more by case-inflections and less by prepositions; also the placing of the subject at the end of the sentence. But it chiefly consists in the use of certain rhetorical figures, such as personification of inanimate objects, antithesis, alliteration, hendiadys, pleonasm, anadiplosis, &c. The metaphor, by which words are applied figuratively to subjects similar in some respect to those in which they have a literal application, is very much used by Tacitus, and greatly enlivens his narrative. His metaphors are more commonly contained in verbs, less frequently in adjectives, adverbs and nouns. Of verbs the more important are: those referring to military affairs; to features of the earth; denoting motion and direction, --to put on and put off, to burn, to inflame, to break, to rend, to roll, to revolve, to engulf, to exhaust, to loosen, to set free.--Draeger. Tacitus in his youth was influenced by both school...
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