 | and Fellow of a college in Cambridge Master of Arts - 1828 - 326 páginas
...i. 34. 14. Cum pereant acie fortissima quseque, Ov. Ponl. iii. 6. 31, ie fortissimus quisque.t § 7. The use of the singular for the plural, and the converse, is often productive of great elegance and beauty in poetry. Cum nore rosarum, for floribus, Hor. Od. iii. 29. 3. Thyna merce beatum, for mercibus, Thynis... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 páginas
...writers of the Silver Age. Your " Gradus " may often mislead you. POETIC ORNAMENTS AND LICENCES. a. The use of the singular for the plural, and the converse, is often productive of great elegance. E. g. Cumflore, Msecenas, rosarum. In ramis multa latebat avis. Supplex tua numina posco. So " nos,"... | |
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The use of the singular for the plural, and the converse, is often productive of great elegance and beauty. 