Anthropology and the Classics: Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford

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Seite 96 - Tiger : But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
Seite 110 - Ich stech das Licht, ich stech das Licht, ich stech das Herz, das ich liebe" (Schönwerth, Aus der Oberpfalz, Sitten und Sagen I, Augsburg 1857, S.
Seite 167 - Quae te tam laeta tulerunt 605 saecula ? qui tanti talem genuere parentes ? in freta dum fluvii current, dum montibus umbrae lustrabunt convexa, polus dum sidera pascet, semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt, quae me cumque vocant terrae.
Seite 178 - Vilice, da requiem terrae, semente peracta ; Da requiem, terram qui coluere, viris. Pagus agat festum ; pagum lustrate, coloni, Et date paganis annua liba focis. Placentur frugum matres, Tellusque Ceresque, Farre suo gravidae visceribusque suis.
Seite 182 - Mr Warde Fowler tells us that an ancient Iguvian document contains instructions for the lustration of the people before a campaign: the male population assembled in its military divisions ; around the host a procession went three times; at the end of each circuit there was prayer to Mars and to two female associates of his power, to bless the people of Iguvium and to curse their enemies : and he observes that religion has here been imposed upon the original magic-ceremony. For the idea must have...
Seite 162 - But if you were founding a city of pigs, Socrates, what other fodder than this would you give them?
Seite 179 - Baccho, 327 spumantibus. 334 plangit. terque novas circum felix eat hostia fruges, omnis quam chorus et socii comitentur ovantes, et Cererem clamore vocent in tecta ; neque ante falcem maturis quisquam supponat aristis, quam Cereri torta redimitus tempora quercu det motus incompositos et carmina dicat.
Seite 99 - For example, when an Ojebway Indian desires to work evil on any one, he makes a little wooden image of his enemy and runs a needle into its head or heart, or he shoots an arrow into it, believing that wherever the needle pierces or the arrow strikes the image, his foe will the same instant be seized with a sharp pain in the corresponding part of his body; but if he intends to kill the person outright, he burns or buries the puppet, uttering certain magic words as he does so.
Seite 171 - KO.I veav3 appellarunt, ab eo quod eo die potest videri extrema et prima luna. 11. Lustrum nominatum tempus quinquennale a luendo, id est solvendo, quod quinto quoque anno vectigalia et ultro tributa per censores persolvebantur.
Seite 133 - Neither of them knew the speaker nor did they ever see him again. — EM Forster, A Passage to India Herodotus, as we know, is both Father of History and Father of Anthropology. Sir John Myres wrote: "so far as Herodotus presents us ... with a science of anthropology ... he is little, if at all, behind the best thought of our own day.

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