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Late Greek

noun

The Greek language in the 3rd to 8th centuries.

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... cry out against the confusion of Ciceros ideas. Such outcry, now so common, is due largely to the want, which I have already noticed, of any clear exposition of the variations in doctrine which the late Greek schools exhibited during the last two centuries before the Christian era. But to return to the charge of want of originality. This is a virtue which Cicero never claims. There is scarcely one of his works (if ...

— Academica • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... Vertumnus, or one of those half-deities or quarter-deities that one sees among the marbles in public collections. "Graeco-Roman School, of the late Antonine Period; probably representing a Rural Deity, or God of Spring or Agriculture in the Latin mythology." Certainly the more decadent side of late Greek or Roman art seemed in some strange way to be living again in ...

— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey

Words linked to "Late Greek" : Hellenic, Hellenic language, Greek