Meaning of Atthis | Babel Free

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Attic Greek (prestige dialect of Ancient Greek)

Late-Latin, declension-3, feminine, singular

Equivalents

Examples

“Quinque sunt linguae Graecorum, Ias Doris Atthis Aeolis coene.”

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“Atthis, quae brevitati studet, admittit soloecismos, quos cum docti fecerint, non soloecismi sed schemata logu appellantur, ut est n u d a g e n u et u r b e m q u a m s t a t u o v e s t r a e s t.”

Attic, which favours concision, allows solecisms [which], when learned men have committed them, are called not solecisms but figures of speech, as for instance “nuda genu” [Vergilius, Aeneid 1.320] and “urbem quam statuo vestra est” [opere citato 1.573]. For in those places [Virgil] ought to have said “nudum genu habens” and “urbs quam statuo vestra est”. But in service to the [rhetorical] figure, that which is called Hellenism has reduced the three parts of speech to the two of usage on account of Atticism.

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