Concise Dictionary of Greek Literature

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

scheme of feet. See also acephalous, truncation. deixis, a term used in linguistics to denote those aspects of an utterance that refer to and depend upon the situation in which the utterance is made. Deictic words indicate the situational 'co-ordinates' of person

The Concise Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament

A Greek and Arabic lexicon (GALex): materials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Arabic

in its multi-lingual Proceedings the more remarkable. The "Hellenistic inheritance" of the title is susceptible of study under a wide variety of aspects, reflecting the range of Galen's output and the possible range of influences upon him, from Stoic moral philosophy to Alexandrian anatomy. That variety is reflected here, albeit not comprehensively. There are, though, recurrent themes. Chief am...

A Greek and Arabic lexicon: materials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Arabic

impression of unfinished business persists. A proper description of the Middle English manuscripts and a much more detailed exposition of their relationship remain essential desiderata. One can accept the decision to print a single witness, but preference for the Wellcome MS over all the others would have been more comprehensible if a fuller picture of their character had been allowed to emerge...

A Greek and Arabic lexicon (GALex): materials for a dictionary of the medieval translations from Greek into Arabic

the treatise impressive. However, they do not include instances where the image is found by itself, and recourse to MacKinney is still necessary. Medieval vernacular medicine has for long been the Cinderella of medical history. With the publication of such major studies as this Sammelband, as varied and, at the same time, as coherent as the Ortolf material around which it is organized, historia...