The Journal of Philology, Volume 9

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William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson
Macmillan and Company, 1880
 

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Page 93 - ... the Egyptians and Canaanites did form such marriages as by the Hebrew law are incestuous. In Egypt this was certainly connected with the Totem system. It can hardly have been otherwise in Canaan, for variations from the Hebrew law could not well follow any other principle than that of female kinship. The practices condemned by the higher moral sense of the prophets were, it appears, remnants of old usage. Along with these facts we find other evidences of an ancient system of kinship through women....
Page 211 - Silvane, tutor finium. Libet jacere modo sub antiqua ilice, Modo in tenaci gramine. Labuntur altis interim ripis aquae, Queruntur in silvis aves; Fontesque lymphis obstrepunt manantibus, Somnos quod invitet leves.
Page 277 - Tu mihi curarum requies, tu nocte vel atra Lumen, et in solis tu mihi turba locis. Nunc licet e caelo mittatur amica Tibullo, Mittetur frustra deficietque Venus.
Page 209 - Delli, seu maestus omni tempore vixeris, seu te in remote gramine per dies festos reclinatum bearis interiore nota Falerni. quo pinus ingens albaque populus umbram hospitalem consociare amant ramis ? quid obliquo laborat lympha fugax trepidare rivo ? hue vina et unguenta et nimium breves flores amoenae ferre iube rosae, dum res et aetas et sororum fila trium patiuntur atra.
Page 74 - ... has brought evidence to prove that from the earliest times in very many cases and in the most widely separated races " animals were worshipped by tribes of men who were named after them and believed to be of their breed.
Page 49 - Fabi Pictoris Graecis annalibus eius modi est, ut omnia, quae ab Aenea gesta sunt quaeque illi acciderunt, ea fuerint, quae ei secundum quietem visa sunt.
Page 78 - a sub-tribe of the Azol." Thawr, bull; "a sub-tribe of Hamdan and of Abel llanah." Gahah. colt of an ass; "a sub-tribe of the Arabs." Hida', kite; "a sub-tribe of Murad." The origin of all names is referred, in the genealogical system of the Arabs, to an ancestor who bore the tribal or gentile name. Thus the Kalb or dog-tribe consists of. the Beni-Kalb — sons of Kalb (the dog), who is, in turn, son of Wabra (the female rock-badger) , son of Tha'laba (the she fox), great-great-grandson of Qoda'a.
Page 101 - Bis septem Rutuli, muros qui milite servent, Delecti; ast illos centeni quemque sequuntur, Purpurei cristis iuvenes auroque corusci. Discurrunt variantque vices fusique per herbam Indulgent vino, et vertunt crateras ae'nos.
Page 94 - Shuhamites or Serpent clan, of Benjamin ; the Bachrites, or Camel clan, of Ephraim and Benjamin ; the Elonites, or Oak clan, of Zebulon ; the Tolaites, or Worm clan, of Issachar ; and the Arelets, or Lion clan, of Gad. A special suggestion comes from the tribe of Simeon. In the blessing of Jacob, Simeon is coupled with Levi as a tribe scattered in Israel. There were Simeonites in the south of Judah, but they do not appear there as an independent local tribe.
Page 22 - Agnatis et patronis et liberorum capitum manumissoribus permissum est feminarum tutelam alii in iure cedere; pupillorum autem tutelam non est permissum cedere, quia non uidetur one-/ Vp.47 rosa, cum tempore pubertatis finiatur.

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