Bonfante, a leading scholar in the field, says "... it resembles no other language in Europe or elsewhere ...." The ancients were aware that Etruscan was an isolate.

These Kartvelian tribes differed so completely in language and appearance from the surrounding Indo-European nations that the ancients provided various wild theories to account for the phenomenon.

Aneau pointed out the obvious inconsistency of inculcating imitation of the ancients and depreciating native poets in a work professing to be a defence of the French language.

By October, he had also begun "... translating an alphabet to the Book of Abraham, and arranging a grammar of the Egyptian language as practiced by the ancients.

The inhabitants of Cataonia were distinguished by the ancients from the other Cappadocians as a different people, but Strabo could observe no difference in manners or in language.

Although the ancients had been less theoretical about the comedic form, the humanists used the precepts of Aelius Donatus ( 4th century A. D .), Horace, Aristotle and the works of Terence to elaborate a set of rules: comedy should seek to correct vice by showing the truth ; there should be a happy ending ; comedy uses a lower style of language than tragedy ; comedy does not paint the great events of states and leaders, but the private lives of people, and its principal subject is love.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

The real and serious android of the ancients was a secret which they kept hidden from all eyes, and Mesmer was the first who dared to divulge it ; it was the extension of the will of the magus into another body, organised and served by an elementary spirit ; in more modern and intelligible terms, it was a magnetic subject.

He modelled his work on the " choral " lyrics of Stesichorus at least in so far as he wrote narratives on mythical themes ( often with original variations from the traditional stories ) and structured his verses in triads ( units of three stanzas each, called " strophe ", " antistrophe " and " epode "), so closely in fact that even the ancients sometimes had difficulty distinguishing between the two poets Whereas however ancient scholars collected the work of Stesichorus into twenty-six books, each probably a self-contained narrative that gave its title to the whole book, they compiled only seven books for Ibycus, which were numbered rather than titled and whose selection criteria are unknown.

Passing north of the modern Antakya ( ancient Antioch ) the Orontes plunges southwest into a gorge ( compared by the ancients to Tempe ), and falls 150 feet ( 50 m ) in 10 miles ( 16 km ) to the sea just south of the little port of Samandağı ( former Suedia, in antiquity Seleucia Pieria ), after a total course of 150 miles ( 240 km ).

In 1691 he was received into the French Academy in spite of the determined efforts of the partisans of the " ancients ", especially Racine and Boileau, who on four previous occasions had ensured his rejection.

In this way although the Cavaliers embraced the old ways of thinking from the ancients, they also incorporated their own ideas and thoughts into their poetry.

As Mark L. Sargent states: " By bringing the young from Plymouth Plantation and the ancients from Of Plymouth Plantation into ' dialogue ,'... Bradford wisely dramatizes the act of historical recovery as a negotiation between the two generations, between his young readers and his text.

They believe that the menhirs are the ancients of the U ' wa clans who were turned into the stone piers of the world.

The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients applauded by some of later times ; and that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing ; as if they were wiser than God.

The ancients believed that going into these pools would balance the elements in the bather, thus curing disease.

The book, a defence of the ancients against the moderns, " did not ", according to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, " take into account the fact that only the best of ancient literature has come down to us.

** translated into English as Occult science in India and among the ancients, with an account of their mystic initiations, and the history of spiritism, New York: Lovell / London 1884, reprinted 1901, 1919 ; New Hyde Park, N. Y .: University Books 1971.

Mandino wrote The Greatest Salesman in the World which contains the " time-tested wisdom of the ancients distilled into ten simple scrolls " which, if followed for the prescribed ten months, will as Og says, " seep into my other mind, that mysterious source which never sleeps, which creates my dreams, and often makes me act in ways I do not comprehend.

Tommy heeds his grandfather's words and drives the Sphere straight into the Sun, and ends up in the land of the ancients to see Enisi and Jen once more.

His three speeches, called by the ancients " the Three Graces ," rank next to those of Demosthenes.

According to another historian ( Warmington ), there were three ancients of Carthage called Hanno " given the same nickname ", that is the Great, but he conjectures that it was a family nickname or a term not well understood by the ancient Greek or Roman writers.

* Sefer ha-Ḥayyim, treating of the unity of God, of the soul and its attributes, and of the three stages ( recognized by the ancients as " plant, animal, and intellectual ") in man's life.

The land was mainly occupied by different classes of Hindus and Christians, The few major ancient families were present in centuries back but now the scenario changed to increased number of families by increased population, the ancients families comprises the only one Brahmin family kolasseri mana ( Kannakulangara sree krishna swamy temple owned by the same Kolassery Mana, they are one of the trusties of Sree Narasimha Temple-Kadamuri ) and main seven Nair families of Vadasseril ( A big family comprises several sub families, Rather than the three major temples a small devi temple attached to their Primeval Ancestral home ' Vadasseril '.

The first of its four parts is a very brief rhetorical retrospect on the excellence of the ancients ’ legacy, clearly Sasanian, of spiritual and temporal knowledge.

The style obtained for the poem's author, even among the ancients, the title of " obscure "; one modern scholar says the Alexandra " may be the most illegible piece of classical literature, one which nobody can read without a proper commentary and which even then makes very difficult reading.

What gained Flaxman his general fame was not his work in sculpture proper, but those outline designs to the poets, in which he showed not only to what purpose he had made his own the principles of ancient design in vase paintings and bas reliefs, but also by what a natural affinity, better than all mere learning, he was bound to the ancients and belonged to them.

Most of the ancients, including the first two just mentioned, refer to his work by his name: " Pytheas says ..." Two late writers give titles: the astronomical author Geminus of Rhodes mentions ( ta peri tou Okeanou ), literally " things about the Ocean ", sometimes translated as " Description of the Ocean ", " On the Ocean " or " Ocean ;" Marcianus, the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, mentions a ( periodos gēs ), a " trip around the earth " or ( periplous ), " sail around.

In shape it is like the sickle ( drepanē, δρεπάνι ), to which it was compared by the ancients: the concave side, with the city and harbour of Corfu in the centre, lies toward the Albanian coast.

Horace in his Epodes characterizes the elm as " loving the vine " ( amicta vitibus ulmo ), and the ancients spoke of the " marriage " between elm and vine.

In the sixth of his famous academical Discourses ( 1774 ), he wrote that the painter may use the work of the ancients as a " magazine of common property, always open to the public, whence every man has a right to take what materials he pleases " ( Reynolds 1775, In 19th-century England, John Ruskin also pleaded for eclecticism.

Flowers like the iris, chrysanthemum, lily and delphinium ( blue ), were certainly known to the ancients but do not feature much in garden scenes.

Another work of Accolti's, a " Dialogue " ( 1461 – 63 ), was published at Parma in 1689 ; in this work the author compares the achievements of the moderns to the ancients, in order to prove that the former are in no respect inferior to the latter.

The first volume ( 1614 ), titled Musicae Artis Analecta, was written mostly in Latin, and regarded the music of the ancients and of the church.

* The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry ( 1704 ), in which he argued that the ancients owed their superiority over the moderns in poetry to their religious attitude.

Along with Gerald Hawkins ' new interpretation of Stonehenge as an astronomical ' computer ' ( see Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge ), Thom's theories were adopted by numerous believers in the lost wisdom of the ancients and became commonly associated with pseudoscience, which saddened him greatly.

Genshitenson also reveals to Taikoubou that the real goal of Houshin Project isn't just about defeating Dakki, it is about defeating the eternal being supporting Dakki throughout all her chaos years-Jyoka ( 女媧 ), one of the ancients.

His most important philosophical work was Zoroaster ( 1593 ), a work of universal philosophy which attempted to recover the lost wisdom of the ancients.

מעין גנים ) is a continuation of Sefer Elim, consisting of the following short treatises: on trigonometry, on the first two books of the Almagest, on astronomy, on astronomical instruments, on Kabbalah ( mainly the Ari ) and the supernatural, on astrology, on algebra, on chemistry, on the aphorisms of Hippocrates, on the opinion of the ancients concerning the substance of the heavens, on the astronomy of the ancients, who considered the motion of the higher spheres due to spirits ( Delmedigo shows that their motion is similar to that of the earth ), on the principles of religion, and mathematical paradoxes.

Fontenelle quickly followed with his Digression sur les anciens et les modernes ( 1688 ), in which he took the Modern side, pressing the argument that modern scholarship allowed modern man to surpass the ancients in knowledge.

According to the literary tradition, these, pre-Greek ancients are called the Pelasgians ( Πελασγοί ), but Milan Budimir calls them ( Πελάσται ), proceeding from the form Πελαστικέ ( which appears in the scholias of Homer's Iliad 16, 223 ), from the onomastic material in the field ( Παλαιστή, toponym in Epirus ; Palaestinus, older name for Strymon etc.