Sentence examples for classical writers from inspiring English sources

The eastern Italic words reported by the Classical writers, as well as toponomastics, confirm these conclusions.

Classical writers claimed that Ctesiphon was founded by the Parthian king Vardanes.

"These classical writers were insane, when you think of how crazy they were.

Classical writers tell that enthusiastic beholders stained the marble statue with their ejaculations.

Will more obscure classical writers find an audience in today's cluttered theatrical landscape?

It connects the reader to English history and to European literature: Dante, Milton, the classical writers.

"She's a very modern and experimental writer in the clothing of a classical writer.

Robin praises the classical writer for his fluidity: "He knows, more than most, that the imagination doesn't have a gender".

Dabhoiwala mentions Aretino once, apparently imagining that he was some kind of classical writer to be quoted only by the pretentious.

It came at the beginning of the seventeenth century, when — possibly because of a confusion with another classical writer called Hierocles — twenty-eight of the Philogelos jokes were appended to an edition of his "Commentary on the Golden Words of Pythagoras".

We are not entirely right on that (you cannot, significantly, produce laughter by tickling yourself, and at least one classical writer thought that the lips were the prime site for tickling rather than – as we would more likely have it – the soles of the feet or the armpits, which itself suggests a cultural aspect to the phenomenon).