The Querolus, a Syntactical and Stylistic Study: A Dissertation in the Johns Hopkins University (Classic Reprint)

George Wesley Johnston

ISBN 10: 0266410952 / ISBN 13: 9780266410959

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• Title: The Querolus, a Syntactical and Stylistic Study: A Dissertation in the Johns Hopkins University (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0266410952
• ISBN 13: 9780266410959
• Binding: HRD
• Condition: New
• Weight: 335 grams

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Excerpt from The Querolus, a Syntactical and Stylistic Study: A Dissertation in the Johns Hopkins University

The Slight knowledge we possess of the later history of Roman Comedy does not greatlv aid us in determining to what country the author of our play belonged, a question on which, as on those of the authorship and date, no information can be obtained except what may be drawn from the work itself. Dezeimeris and Havet5 refer it to Gaul; Teuffel Il., p. 372 (english, edition) is of the same Opinion, and this may be said of Sittl also, the reviewer of the works of Dezeimeris and Havet. Other scholars have expressed the opinion that it is a pro duct of African latinity. But if this View be accepted it will be difficult to explain how the reference 16, 22 - 17, 2 (all citations, are made in accordance with the pages and lines of Peiper's edition, to the freedom of life that obtained in the region of the Liger would be intelligible to an African audience. Moreover, the extremes of heat and cold to which allusion is made (page and of which, it may be inferred, the writer had knowledge gained from personal experience, cannot be said, as Havet remarks on page 4, to be so characteristic of Africa as of a more northerly country. The African origin of the play is.

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