But the actual Aeolic word pais was more often used to indicate a slave or any young girl, rather than a daughter. In order to avoid misrepresenting the unknowable status of young Cle•s, translator Diane Rayor and others, such as David Campbell, chose to use the more neutral word "ch...
who I am, asking questions. It’s like a half-pantomime filling in the blanks of my vocabulary. But it’s enough, enough that I don’t do too much damage with my clumsy words and it means that the kind Kyria fills my pockets with homemade pies ‘for the journey’. Last year I st...
-- Red and white curtained windows, little straw mat, little round table with a tumultuous assemblage of legs underneath, clumsy rush-bottomed chairs, two great red velvet arm-chairs affording plenty of space to be uncomfortable in, bureau, chimney-glass in several pieces pretending to be in ...
If this diminishing taper were indicated by a decrease in the width of the pattern commencing at the selvedges, then it might be presumed [Pg 25] that a reed had been used for the central portion only—a very clumsy even if feasible arrangement, but the pattern begins to decrease along ...
Anaxagoras immediately saw that one moving force was sufficient, for every mixing is a separation from previous combinations. Then too, whereas Empedocles was clumsy in clarifying the distinction between inert, corporeal elements and the newly assumed principles of motion, Anaxagoras described his single...
Some are inscribed in a fluent professional hand abounding in diacritical signs, while others are written in clumsy and uneven script; both pottery sherds and limestone ostraca are attested, and their sizes vary.While it is often difficult to ascertain the function of a certain ostracon, some ...
at Cao Zhi, Liu Zhen's poem the old clumsy, said Bao Zhao is the Fu Xi era more people (ancient style poetry), Xie Tiao Jingu unmatched (his male as the eternal). But as Bao finally than Japan towards the city full of learning; Xie Tiao, (only) to learn "of inferior light...
fallacy, even an elegant scientific demonstration to a clumsy one, without considering the former as good and the latter as bad. According to Plato, all of the things that people perceive with their senses are but very imperfect copies of the eternal Forms. The most important and fundamental ...