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The Ironic Priest

William R. Nethercut

American Journal of Philology. (Oct., 1970) pp. 385-407

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[231 words] tibi, mihi, quid, ovid, nunc, haec, quis, tamen, esse, ille, illa, semper, ipse, erit, sine, quoque, fuit, amor, saepe, nobis, quem, licet, puer, bene, trist, habet, nostra, manus, modo, erat

[223 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[212 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[182 words] passage, atque, virgil, lines, nunc, ovid, ille, vergil, lucan, line, haec, caput, inter, hinc, ipse, terra, passages, silius, sanguine, quem, illa, ante, omnia, arma, mare, manus, tibi, super, caelum, sidera

[164 words] aeneas, vergil, aeneid, virgil, dido, turnus, troy, anchises, trojans, juno, epic, venus, poem, jupiter, trojan, italy, hero, servius, latinus, carthage, poet, episode, mezentius, words, future, simile, books, story, ascanius, lines

[122 words] augustus, temple, jupiter, cult, emperor, caesar, augustan, mars, triumph, gods, ludi, victory, venus, dedication, romulus, octavian, dedicated, juno, statue, divine, altar, fasti, games, augusti, title, livia, apollo, genius, imperial, divus

[119 words] horace, odes, poem, poet, maecenas, carm, poetry, stanza, poems, horatian, lyric, fraenkel, augustus, nisbet, lines, stanzas, epode, hubbard, poetic, epistles, horaz, alcaeus, epodes, line, commager, carmen, plancus, bacchus, theme, epist

[108 words] language, words, effect, literary, poet, expression, tone, contrast, speech, passages, reader, manner, poetry, himself, rhetorical, passage, dramatic, prose, poetic, uses, technique, lines, characteristic, theme, writing, treatment, makes, serious, kind, familiar

[72 words] eyes, thou, your, night, earth, away, heart, thee, blood, forth, love, simile, sleep, beauty, tears, mind, poet, lines, heaven, hands, comes, words, gods, song, water, face, sound, passage, dark, sweet

[70 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

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[62 words] cave, river, water, lake, nymphs, villa, cumae, baiae, rivers, shadows, sibyl, spring, waters, grotto, naples, tiber, bauli, ausonius, avernus, misenum, springs, nymph, stream, lucrine, sperlonga, caves, giles, clitumnus, prisoners, simile

[58 words] himself, friends, political, personal, public, friend, whom, friendship, attitude, position, reputation, conduct, having, towards, toward, enemies, praise, private, cause, return, influence, claim, speech, charges, power, true, actions, themselves, felt, career

[54 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness

[53 words] lines, line, words, verse, repetition, word, verses, phrase, position, pattern, beginning, structure, formula, sentence, repeated, effect, phrases, emphasis, metrical, poem, adjective, sense, verbal, clause, caesura, arrangement, passage, verb, preceding, formulae

[44 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[43 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

[38 words] heracles, herakles, lion, hero, theseus, perseus, serpent, bull, deianeira, snake, centaur, hercules, boar, gorgon, medusa, snakes, centaurs, monster, deianira, shield, andromeda, giant, hydra, myth, amphitryon, hyllus, club, eurystheus, lions, geryon

[36 words] speech, words, himself, speaker, audience, lines, situation, scene, action, address, makes, line, speak, asks, addressed, response, begins, take, effect, immediately, reply, comes, your, speaking, speaks, moment, advice, beginning, passage, questions

[33 words] varro, servius, ennius, gellius, donatus, macrobius, commentary, festus, naevius, nonius, latin, virgil, lucilius, vergil, scholia, probus, accius, plautus, cicero, suetonius, quoted, keil, lindsay, priscian, thilo, fragment, comment, nenia, fragments, terence

[31 words] mind, power, true, sense, moral, truth, knowledge, things, idea, ideal, experience, himself, divine, spirit, individual, ideas, natural, conception, expression, reality, real, feeling, vision, attitude, toward, every, intellectual, beauty, something, action

[31 words] passage, sense, text, meaning, sentence, words, word, reading, phrase, line, mean, translation, clause, context, lines, follows, editors, refer, difficulty, verb, makes, emendation, take, refers, preceding, expression, passages, correct, understood, translates

[29 words] road, river, along, route, miles, valley, plain, hill, town, distance, land, mountain, across, coast, village, city, mountains, hills, roads, pass, line, region, bridge, island, southern, water, lake, lies, ground, places

[24 words] medea, helen, jason, philoctetes, neoptolemus, apollonius, euripides, menelaus, argonauts, valerius, odysseus, argonautica, play, children, troy, argo, story, theseus, neoptolemos, aegeus, andromache, scene, epic, walcott, episode, herself, hermione, ariadne, fleece, pelias

[22 words] your, something, take, things, thing, enough, done, really, anything, himself, look, mind, mean, away, going, want, keep, matter, sort, every, kind, doing, else, tell, suppose, having, ever, words, help, understand

[19 words] philosophy, literary, works, influence, philosophical, writers, tradition, greeks, intellectual, knowledge, ideas, writings, education, philosophers, poets, political, early, plato, period, wrote, written, romans, authors, writing, historians, attitude, moral, philosopher, poetry, himself

[18 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[16 words] wall, walls, room, building, house, rooms, built, plan, houses, floor, entrance, door, court, stone, construction, buildings, central, palace, roof, structure, level, front, upper, chamber, wide, interior, space, rectangular, corner, open

[16 words] story, king, himself, told, tale, night, city, sent, house, killed, away, having, whom, father, took, home, stories, wife, his_father, version, woman, child, return, dream, his_wife, dead, gave, children, mother, hands

[15 words] senate, imperium, office, consuls, consul, magistrates, mommsen, augustus, provinces, senators, consular, senatorial, praetor, power, elections, tribunes, magistrate, republic, laws, caesar, consulship, election, passed, censors, cicero, powers, senatus, decree, procedure, period

[15 words] narrative, events, chapter, section, books, beginning, story, sections, sequence, chapters, begins, follows, passage, composition, theme, structure, digression, followed, lines, opening, introduction, chronological, immediately, treatment, event, division, preceding, arrangement, passages, action

[14 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[14 words] ship, ships, fleet, boat, sail, voyage, harbor, wind, shore, sailing, oars, port, storm, vessels, sailors, harbour, vessel, boats, coast, trireme, hull, triremes, casson, naval, winds, water, cargo, wreck, shipwreck, stern

[13 words] orestes, agamemnon, chorus, oedipus, play, electra, aeschylus, clytemnestra, antigone, sophocles, creon, scene, euripides, apollo, aegisthus, cassandra, murder, audience, action, eteocles, lines, oresteia, iphigenia, troy, sacrifice, curse, hecuba, eumenides, thebes, city

[13 words] greeks, greece, peoples, cities, early, land, strabo, egypt, asia_minor, name, island, city, eastern, region, italy, islands, country, native, inhabitants, geographical, western, tribes, coast, tradition, northern, mediterranean, asia, civilization, romans, population

[13 words] horace, juvenal, satire, lucilius, persius, satires, poet, poem, maecenas, satirist, lines, martial, serm, himself, literary, poetry, satura, horatian, epistle, epistles, epist, ars_poetica, poets, nasidienus, sermones, satiric, rudd, umbricius, lucilian, line

[13 words] ovid, vergil, virgil, poem, poet, poetry, poets, aeneid, poems, epic, metamorphoses, horace, latin, georgics, catullus, fasti, lucan, works, poetic, culex, heroides, lines, ciris, verse, ovidian, lucretius, literary, verses, tristia, amores

[12 words] atti, nella, florence, naples, nell, degli, sulla, italia, romano, alla, turin, archeologia, greca, istituto, napoli, onore, ricerche, pisa, bologna, antichita, italian, antico, classica, bari, mondo, sull, cultura, argues, secolo, greco

[12 words] callimachus, epigram, poem, epigrams, poet, poems, poetry, archilochus, hellenistic, poets, anth, simonides, theognis, lines, pfeiffer, aetia, fragment, meleager, callimachean, page, line, hymn, hipponax, poetic, tyrtaeus, palladas, literary, theocritus, elegy, epitaph

[11 words] lucretius, epicurus, epicurean, bailey, de_rerum_natura, poem, poet, epicureans, venus, lucretian, philodemus, fear, passage, lines, munro, atoms, lucr, memmius, natura, epicureanism, poetry, proem, diogenes, mind, gods, rerum, giussani, philosophy, hermarchus, reader

[11 words] hermes, diss, wilamowitz, studien, philologus, untersuchungen, stuttgart, literatur, gottingen, commentary, edition, heidelberg, philol, review, gnomon, dichtung, darmstadt, suppl, tapa, fraenkel, jaeger, repr, wiesbaden, norden, schmid, wilamowitz-moellendorff, amsterdam, dissertation, philosophie, uber

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[10 words] word, meaning, sense, words, term, uses, phrase, passage, mean, context, passages, usage, applied, verb, expression, refer, language, refers, meanings, adjective, idea, meant, equivalent, elsewhere, describe, latin, technical, epithet, definition, simply

[10 words] moon, stars, aratus, star, earth, planets, astronomical, signs, rising, zodiac, astronomy, ptolemy, comet, venus, sign, manilius, astrology, orion, horoscope, astrological, constellation, setting, pleiades, night, celestial, eclipse, mercury, hours, saturn, constellations

[10 words] inscription, asia_minor, cities, city, asia, ephesus, cilicia, phrygia, ramsay, antioch, galatia, smyrna, strabo, ephesos, pergamum, sardis, magie, aphrodisias, name, caria, pergamon, lycia, vedius, text, pisidia, pamphylia, magnesia, priene, panhellenion, iconium

[9 words] collection, information, athens, done, knowledge, received, collections, objects, carried, completed, valuable, investigation, progress, devoted, country, task, service, hope, greece, visit, sent, every, volume, gave, soon, museums, value, german, full, future

[9 words] polybius, livy, romans, hannibal, philip, polyb, treaty, carthage, walbank, flamininus, aetolians, senate, scipio, pyrrhus, embassy, greece, carthaginian, carthaginians, antiochus, rhodes, perseus, macedon, punic, macedonian, holleaux, aetolian, peace, appian, achaean, aratus

[8 words] average, size, numbers, population, high, proportion, data, length, ratio, higher, units, frequency, rate, range, increase, groups, percentage, relative, estimate, amount, lower, statistics, value, significant, approximately, sample, distribution, mean, greater, unit

[8 words] cicero, sulla, pompey, caesar, crassus, marius, senate, catiline, pompeius, clodius, consul, sallust, plutarch, plut, consulship, cato, lucullus, metellus, political, appian, badian, piso, gabinius, scaurus, tribune, praetor, antonius, broughton, curio, cinna

[8 words] tiberius, tacitus, augustus, claudius, germanicus, suetonius, gaius, emperor, nero, drusus, agrippina, suet, piso, agrippa, senate, livia, velleius, caligula, reign, sejanus, princeps, annals, syme, corbulo, principate, julia, imperial, silanus, historian, gallus

[8 words] scene, seated, relief, scenes, woman, holding, standing, shield, behind, holds, vase, stands, front, hands, female, representations, representation, spear, youth, wears, composition, male, painting, warrior, wearing, altar, reliefs, goddess, dionysos, frieze

[7 words] wall, building, blocks, stoa, foundation, foundations, temple, corner, level, built, walls, agora, terrace, construction, poros, front, theater, marble, steps, line, plan, along, street, structure, altar, sanctuary, rock, face, block, early

[7 words] water, channel, aqueduct, basin, bath, baths, pipes, frontinus, shank, aqueducts, pipe, flow, aqua, fountain, tunnel, bathing, reservoir, tank, marcia, pool, anio, channels, supply, basins, mill, hydraulic, claudia, water_supply, canal, orata

[6 words] imperial, emperor, city, empire, local, official, public, provincial, status, officials, office, cities, emperors, provinces, governor, administration, freedmen, title, service, private, municipal, military, hadrian, augustus, period, rank, inscription, offices, reign, equestrian

[6 words] idem, romain, empire, roman_empire, sous, i988, i989, i987, i986, i990, i982, i984, i985, i983, i992, i99i, siecle, jones, latomus, millar, anrw, chiron, i98i, i993, i980, actes, i994, acta, i977, brunt

[6 words] games, athletic, contest, olympia, contests, victory, race, festival, festivals, athletes, victor, game, athletics, victors, wrestling, stadium, prize, events, olympic, gardiner, competition, pausanias, athlete, boxing, prizes, circus, gladiatorial, olympic_games, spectators, victories

[6 words] political, power, democracy, city, politics, citizens, rule, government, democratic, polis, laws, constitution, community, republic, aristocratic, empire, individual, freedom, ideal, aristocracy, citizen, economic, wealth, control, monarchy, tyranny, oligarchy, states, athens, institutions

[6 words] wine, food, drinking, drink, banquet, meal, feast, meat, water, dinner, guests, bread, eating, milk, feasting, fish, dining, honey, athenaeus, feasts, cooking, served, consumption, symposium, foods, cook, host, choes, diet, couch

[6 words] caesar, gaul, gallic, gauls, britain, romans, rhine, germans, holmes, ariovistus, celtic, camp, battle, hannibal, rhone, alps, helvetians, tribes, enipeus, keltic, german, stoffel, ferrero, pharsalus, helvetii, germany, orgetorix, dumnorix, pompey, gallia

[6 words] glass, iron, copper, metal, lead, bronze, clay, silver, process, gold, mining, analysis, mines, samples, ingots, materials, casting, produced, sample, production, metals, chemical, analyses, furnace, oxide, firing, glaze, alloy, temperature, smelting

[6 words] dead, orpheus, hades, underworld, admetus, alcestis, heracles, dreams, souls, dream, eurydice, sleep, tartarus, elysium, living, charon, earth, insomnia, protesilaus, lament, persephone, journey, orphic, afterlife, pheres, apollo, cerberus, thanatos, gates, pluto

[5 words] caesar, pompey, lucan, antony, octavian, brutus, cicero, appian, cato, civil_war, pollio, suetonius, antonius, caes, augustus, plutarch, cassius, pompeius, cleopatra, suet, curio, pharsalia, plut, julius_caesar, caesars, domitius, plancus, italy, hirtius, actium

[5 words] athens, athenian, athenians, thucydides, fleet, ships, persian, battle, herodotus, persians, salamis, spartans, greeks, thuc, spartan, sparta, marathon, samos, diodorus, aegina, allies, themistocles, revolt, sent, naval, island, persia, chios, tissaphernes, victory

[5 words] esse, enim, autem, etiam, haec, tamen, quidem, atque, quia, vero, apud, modo, quibus, quid, quoque, dicitur, neque, nihil, eius, quasi, inter, videtur, igitur, omnia, potest, loco, ergo, nisi, unde, illud

[5 words] hair, face, body, neck, front, eyes, legs, drapery, heads, lower, shoulder, nose, folds, upper, slightly, forehead, arms, mouth, female, short, shoulders, piece, relief, beard, chiton, broken, ears, behind, feet, wears

[5 words] fire, water, earth, wind, rain, winds, heat, cold, weather, night, lightning, storm, clouds, thunder, burning, eruption, snow, volcanic, cloud, winter, drought, darkness, smoke, hail, fires, flame, earthquakes, flames, pumice, phenomena