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I thought I'd list the links to some of the pdf's available from Google Books. I know these are only downloadable to those of us in the US, but here they are:


D'Ooge

Elements of Latin
Second Year Latin
Latin Composition for Secondary Schools
De particularum copulativarum apud Caesarem
Caesar's Gallic war: (Allen and Greenough's edition)
Colloquia latina: Adapted to the Beginners' Books of Jones, Leighton, and Collar and Daniell


Latin Grammars

Latin Grammar (Bennet, 1908)
Bennett's New Latin Grammar (1918)
Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar (1898)
Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges (GM Lane, 1903)
Latin Grammar (Rev. J. Arnold, 1854)
Latin Grammar (L. Direy, 1859
Latin Grammar (Rev. Henson, 1744)
Latin Grammar (T. Hewitt Key, 1858)
An Elementary Latin Grammar (Augustus S. Wilkins, 1876)
Grammar of the Latin Language (K.G. Zumpt, 1829)


Latin Books with Answer Keys

Latin Exercises (w.W. Bradley, 1855)- Key inside book
Latin Elegiac Verse (Rev. C.G. Gepp, 1874)- Key
Easy Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse (Rev. J. Penrose, 2852)- Key
First Latin Writer (Bennet, 1879)- Key
Materials for Latin Prose (P. Frost, 1852)- Key
Key to Latin Made Easy (Rev. J.R. Beard, 1853)
Easy Latin Stories for Beginners (Bennett, 1878)- Key
Latin Course - 2nd Year (T.T. M'Lagan, 1883)- Key
Elements of Latin hexameters and pentameters (R. Bland, 1822)- Key- Vocabulary
Progressive exercises in Latin lyrics (J. Edwards, 1835)- Key
First Latin Exercise Book- Key
Short exercises in Latin prose composition, Part 2 (R.H. Belcher, 1879)- Key
First Latin Exercise Book (J.T. White, 1867)- Key
Exercises in Latin Prose Composition (Rev. A. Beverly, 1868)- Key
New Latin Verse Book (P. Frost, 1867)- Key


Latin Readers

Latin Reader (Jacobs & Döring, 1837)
Latin Reader (Allen & Allen 1869)
Latin Reader (Harkness, 1874)
New Latin Reader with Exercises in Latin Composition (Harkness, 1881)
Via Latina: An Easy Latin Reader (1897)
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin Reader (1903)
Easy Latin Stories for Beginners (Bennett, 1878)- Key
Second Easy Latin Reading Book (Rev. E Fowle, 1873)
Second Latin reading book (Bennett, 1882)


Other Latin Books

Syntax of Early Latin (Bennett, 1914)
Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions (W.M. Lindsay, 1894)
Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions (J.C. Egbert, 1896)
Demonstrations in Latin Elegiac Verse (W.H. Denham, 1899)
Key to Latin grammar and junior scholarship papers (J.H. Raven, 1884)
First and Second Latin Book and Practical Grammar (T. K. Arnold, 1870)


Greek Grammars

Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges (H.W.Smyth, 1916)
Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges (J. Hadley, 1912)
Greek Grammar for the Use of Schools and Colleges
Greek Grammar (W.W. Goodwin, 1900)
Elements of Greek Grammar (Valpy & Anthon, 1834)
Elements of Greek Grammar: Used in Yale College (Goodrich & Hachenberg, 1833)
Grammar of the Greek Language (Kühner & Edwards, 1844)
Copious Greek Grammar v. I (Bloomfield & Matthiae, 1832)
Copious Greek Grammar v. II (Bloomfield & Matthiae, 1832)
Elements of the Greek Language (Moor, Blatchford & Ewing, 1807)
First Greek Grammar (Rutherford, 1880)
Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners (E.A. Sophocles, 1838)
Syntax of the Greek Language: Especially of the Attic Dialect (Madvig, Browne & Arnold, 1853)


Greek Books with Answer Keys

First Steps to Greek Prose Composition (B. Jackson, 1875)- Key
First Greek Book (T. K. Arnold, 1849)- Key
Second Greek Book (T. K. Arnold, 1852)- Key
Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition (T. K. Arnold, 1850)- Key
First Greek Writer, with Exercises (A. Sidgwick, 1880)- Key
New Greek Delectus (H. M. Wilkins, 1880)- Key
Exercises in the Composition of Greek Iambic Verse (H. Kynaston, 1879)- Key
Elementary Grammar of the Greek Language (Kühner & Taylor, 1853)- Key

Greek Readers

Greek Reader (F. Jacobs, 1841)- Translation
Greek Reader: Selected Chiefly from Jacobs' Greek Reader (P. Bullions, 1859)
Greek Reader: Containing Selections from Various Authors (J. Owen, 1868)
Specimens of Greek Dialects: Being a Fourth Greek Reader (W. W. Merry, 1875)
First Greek Reader (W. G. Rushbrooke, 1892)
Fifth Greek Reader (E. Abbott, 1875)
Old Greek Stories: Third Reader Grade (J. Baldwin, 1895)
First Greek reader (Mayor & Halm, 1868)
Greek reader, selected principally from the (Elementarbuch) of F. Jacobs (C. Anthon, 1844)
Tales from Herodotus with Attic Dialectical Forms: Selected for Easy Greek Reading (Herodotus, 1895)
Stories from Herodotus in Attic Greek (Herodotus, 1882)
Stories in Attic Greek (F. D. Morice, 1883)


Homer

Iliad - Edited with English Notes v. I (W. Leaf, 1886)
First Six Books of Homer's Iliad (J. Boise, 1869)
Concordance to the Iliad of Homer (Prendergast & Marzullo, 1869)
Homer's Odyssey v. I (Merry & Riddell, 1886)
Homer's Odyssey: books I-IV (B. Perrin, 1889)
Odyssey of Homer; Books I-XII (G. H. Palmer, 1884)
Homer's Odyssey, Books XIII-XXIV (H. Monro, 1901)
Complete Concordance to the Odyssey and Hymns of Homer (H. Dunbar, 1880)


Other Greek Books

Hints and cautions on Attic Greek prose composition (F. Thackeray, 1876)
Greek Exercises; Or, An Introduction to Greek Composition (Edward, Valpy, Dawes & Porson, 1831)
Introduction to Greek Prose Composition, with Exercises (A. Sidgwick, 1880)
Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition (T. K. Arnold, 1899)
Greek Prose Composition for Use in Colleges (E. H. Spieker, 1904)
Pronunciation of Ancient Greek (F. Blass, 1890)
Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek and Latin Proper Names (J. Walker, 1798)
Aspects of the Speech in the Later Greek Epic (G. W. Elderkin, 1906)

EDIT: I've expanded the list quite a bit and included non-Google sources, but it's getting to unmanageable to post here (around 250 pdf's). Instead, I'll keep it updated here: G'Oogle. If you have any good ones for me to add, just pm me.
Last edited by edonnelly on Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:32 am, edited 2 times in total.
The lists:
G'Oogle and the Internet Pharrchive - 1100 or so free Latin and Greek books.
DownLOEBables - Free books from the Loeb Classical Library

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edonnelly wrote:I know these are only downloadable to those of us in the US
why do you say that? I'm in Canada and I am able to get them (and since they are plain links they should be available to anyone).


anyway, thanks for the list! it's great.
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Those in Britain, so I've been told, are not able to see them. My co-blogger Roger Pearse from England uses me to get around it.

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I can't download them either, and I'm in New Zealand. It seems to be restricted to the American Continent.

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edonnelly wrote:I thought I'd list the links to some of the pdf's available from Google Books. I know these are only downloadable to those of us in the US, but here they are:

I've checked Ed's list: the books below are available outside the US:

D'Ooge

nothing


Latin Grammars

Latin Grammar (Rev. J. Arnold, 1854)
Latin Grammar (L. Direy, 1859
Latin Grammar (Rev. Henson, 1744)
Latin Grammar (T. Hewitt Key, 1858)
Grammar of the Latin Language (K.G. Zumpt, 1829)


Latin Books with Answer Keys

Latin Exercises (w.W. Bradley, 1855)- Key inside book
Easy Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse (Rev. J. Penrose, 1852)- but not the key
Materials for Latin Prose (P. Frost, 1852)- Key
Key to Latin Made Easy (Rev. J.R. Beard, 1853)
Elements of Latin hexameters and pentameters (R. Bland, 1822)- Key- Vocabulary
Progressive exercises in Latin lyrics (J. Edwards, 1835)- Key


Latin Readers

Latin Reader (Jacobs & Döring, 1837)


Other Latin Books

Latin grammar and junior scholarship papers (J.H. Raven, 1884) – but not the key


Greek Grammars

Elements of Greek Grammar (Valpy & Anthon, 1834)
Elements of Greek Grammar: Used in Yale College (Goodrich & Hachenberg, 1833)
Grammar of the Greek Language (Kühner & Edwards, 1844)
Copious Greek Grammar v. I (Bloomfield & Matthiae, 1832)
Copious Greek Grammar v. II (Bloomfield & Matthiae, 1832)
Elements of the Greek Language (Moor, Blatchford & Ewing, 1807)
Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners (E.A. Sophocles, 1838)
Syntax of the Greek Language: Especially of the Attic Dialect (Madvig, Browne & Arnold, 1853)


Greek Books with Answer Keys

First Greek Book (T. K. Arnold, 1849)- Key
Second Greek Book (T. K. Arnold, 1852)- Key
Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition (T. K. Arnold, 1850)- Key
Elementary Grammar of the Greek Language (Kühner & Taylor, 1853)- but not the key

Greek Readers

Greek Reader (F. Jacobs, 1841)- Translation
Greek Reader: Selected Chiefly from Jacobs' Greek Reader (P. Bullions, 1859)
Greek reader, selected principally from the (Elementarbuch) of F. Jacobs (C. Anthon, 1844)


Homer

Nothing


Other Greek Books

Greek Exercises; Or, An Introduction to Greek Composition (Edward, Valpy, Dawes & Porson, 1831)
Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek and Latin Proper Names (J. Walker, 1798)


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Celtica wrote:I can't download them either, and I'm in New Zealand. It seems to be restricted to the American Continent.

the american continent? aren't there two? north and south? ;)


(I'm just picky because we Canadians REALLY hate being confused with or grouped with americans. ;)
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No offense meant, klewis...that's why I said 'continent'... so, how should I phrase it to avoid angry Canadians coming after me? :P

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I had thought that Google just prevented all of them from being available, the fact that it is some and not others is really curious. It can't possibly because of copyright, some of the books they are preventing are 150+ years old. And why Penrose's Exercises, but not the Key to the same book? It's very strange.
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G'Oogle and the Internet Pharrchive - 1100 or so free Latin and Greek books.
DownLOEBables - Free books from the Loeb Classical Library

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Don't forget Pharr: http://books.google.com/books?id=r4IKAA ... _brr=1[url]

This copy doesn't have the missing pages that Textkit's does. Don't even try the 18.5 MB copy, on the theory it'll have more resolution or something; it's apparently been in a fire.

I Wasn't able to download anything from Google Books since February, but then I found a Firefox Extension called DownThemAll that ignores the "kill" signal they send after at most 4 MB--and also the one-hour limit that cuts you off after about 18.5. Yes, some of us still use dialup. Pathetic, huh?

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edonnelly wrote:I had thought that Google just prevented all of them from being available, the fact that it is some and not others is really curious. It can't possibly because of copyright, some of the books they are preventing are 150+ years old. And why Penrose's Exercises, but not the Key to the same book? It's very strange.
I've checked the copyright laws of the Netherlands, which seem to be common in Europe: here, a book is copyrighted up until 70 years after the death of the author. So, books of authors who died before 1937 are now out of copyright.
I guess Google assumes people reach an age of about 90 and write their first book when they are about 20; as I don't have any books written after 1870 in my downloads. But there are exceptions, as with the Key Ed mentioned. And Ritchies Fabulae Faciles is not available via Google, but has been for years on the Gutenberg Project.

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klewlis wrote:the american continent? aren't there two? north and south? ;)
I think to everyone, except, I guess, to Americans and Canadians, there is only one American continent. There are subdivisions (North, South, Central, Caribbean), but ONE continent. :wink:
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Oh, Amadeus. Do you know the book Los exploradores españoles del siglo XV by Charles Fletcher Lummis? It´s very beautiful and good. I recommend you it. (I have an edition from the 1930s) http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDet ... D0%26x%3D0

P.S.: The links above are excelent. :wink:

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Salve, Gonzalo. No, I haven't heard of that book. The title looks interesting. I'll have to buy it sometime.

Also, I just did a flash research about the American continent, and it seems that there are actually several models being taught in different parts of the world. The Anglophone community is taught that there is a North America (Canda, USA and Mexico) and a South America. They include the Antartic as a continent also. So that's a total of 7 continents. Whereas the Spanish-speaking community is only taught of 5 continents, id est, one American contient, and no Antartic continent.

Well, live and learn. I'll just stick to the 5 I've known all my life.
Lisa: Relax?! I can't relax! Nor can I yield, relent, or... Only two synonyms? Oh my God! I'm losing my perspicacity! Aaaaa!

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Amadeus wrote:Salve, Gonzalo. No, I haven't heard of that book. The title looks interesting. I'll have to buy it sometime.

Also, I just did a flash research about the American continent, and it seems that there are actually several models being taught in different parts of the world. The Anglophone community is taught that there is a North America (Canda, USA and Mexico) and a South America. They include the Antartic as a continent also. So that's a total of 7 continents. Whereas the Spanish-speaking community is only taught of 5 continents, id est, one American contient, and no Antartic continent.

Well, live and learn. I'll just stick to the 5 I've known all my life.
really! I had no idea that there were different ways... I've always been taught 7 continents. So yeah, to avoid annoying Canadians, it's safest to say North America (also, in the case of the books, it is most likely just Canada and the US anyway... South America probably can't access the books either).

Canadians are particularly touchy about this due to a) our love-hate relationship with the US and b) the fact that we derive so much of our identity from NOT being American. It's deeply rooted within our psyche. :)
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If you aren´t in the USA -like me- and you want to get that PDFs -whose access is only avaliable to the US country- you have only to turn your language preferences into English (US). I have done that and now I am able to it.

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Gonzalo wrote:If you aren´t in the USA -like me- and you want to get that PDFs -whose access is only avaliable to the US country- you have only to turn your language preferences into English (US). I have done that and now I am able to it.
As far as I know there are no language preferences for the Google Books section; and my general preferences are English already. Are there any other places where you could change this? It seems to know I am in Holland and keeps on giving me the Dutch version on subsequent pages, even if the main page is in ENglish.

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Excuse me, I have mistaken. I were talking about Live Search books (Microsoft), whose server does not allow you to get their books if you aren´t in the US.

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Gonzalo wrote:Excuse me, I have mistaken. I were talking about Live Search books (Microsoft), whose server does not allow you to get their books if you aren´t in the US.
Not true, as my co-blogger has shown.

Edit: Oops, saw that out of context. Mea culpa.

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Are the Microsoft books not stored on archive.org (which should be universally available)? Any I've found through Microsoft's site have come from there, and it's infinitely better to search archive.org than it is that fiasco of a search engine Microsoft is experimenting with. Or am I wrong and there are books that you can get from the Microsoft site that are not stored on archive.org? [I'm personally only interested in downloadable books, of course, I'm sure there are "preview" types of things there.]
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G'Oogle and the Internet Pharrchive - 1100 or so free Latin and Greek books.
DownLOEBables - Free books from the Loeb Classical Library

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Chris Weimer wrote:
Gonzalo wrote:Excuse me, I have mistaken. I were talking about Live Search books (Microsoft), whose server does not allow you to get their books if you aren´t in the US.
Not true, as my co-blogger has shown.

Edit: Oops, saw that out of context. Mea culpa.
Chris: Precisely, Chris, I know Live Search Books by means of your blog.

Eddonelly: If you want to get only downloadable books, you must turn the "finder box" in that way. I´m not sure if I have given you a correct response. I also refuse viewing the previews... :P

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Well, is there no way for us in the "wrong" continent to download the books?
Some of the books were downloadable. But when I downloaded a few of them, and tried a fourth book Google thinks I'm a robot. :? :shock: And it keeps giving me this response thereafter:
We're sorry...

... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.

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Hi, Mingshey.
It happens to me something similiar. When I download many books and I already get it... I open the file and my PC can´t open it. I have to download them one by one or two by two.

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I had similar problems.

"We're sorry...

... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now."

The best way is to download the books one by one.

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Klewlis wrote:
I'm just picky because we Canadians REALLY hate being confused with or grouped with americans. ;)
Canadians are particularly touchy about this due to a) our love-hate relationship with the US and b) the fact that we derive so much of our identity from NOT being American. It's deeply rooted within our psyche. :)
Klewlis-where is that wonderful Canadian politesse?

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tjnor wrote:Klewlis wrote:
I'm just picky because we Canadians REALLY hate being confused with or grouped with americans. ;)
Canadians are particularly touchy about this due to a) our love-hate relationship with the US and b) the fact that we derive so much of our identity from NOT being American. It's deeply rooted within our psyche. :)
Klewlis-where is that wonderful Canadian politesse?

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politeness doesn't preclude honesty. ;)

it's no surprise that we would feel some amount of angst towards a country on which we depend for trade but which has continually screwed us over from day one. :)
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Salve Klewlis,

Is that building behind you in your photo where they hold the Edmonton Stampede?

:wink:

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tjnor wrote:Salve Klewlis,

Is that building behind you in your photo where they hold the Edmonton Stampede?

:wink:

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lol

The Stampede is in Calgary... Edmonton's claim to fame is our ridiculous mall. And we have no buildings as glorious as the most humble chapel in Rome. :(
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Salve,

Well somebody at the Edmonton Northlands thinks they have a stampede:

http://www.foundlocally.com/Edmonton/Sp ... Sports.htm

Maybe they could hold gladitorial competitions at the Mall (maybe they have already?).

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tjnor wrote:Salve,

Well somebody at the Edmonton Northlands thinks they have a stampede:

http://www.foundlocally.com/Edmonton/Sp ... Sports.htm

Maybe they could hold gladitorial competitions at the Mall (maybe they have already?).

tjnor
weird, I've never heard of an edmonton stampede. It obviously isn't well-attended or advertised. :P

gladiatorial competitions in the mall would be hilarious. they may have to remove the massive pirate ship first...
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Well, there's a way to download books that are unavailable for users outside USA... I'm teaching both Greek and Latin and I'm also working on my PhD in Classics in Poland: without the help of google books I couldn't even fancy to get some essential dissertations I needed (and which aren't a subject to copyright in Poland!). If any of you want to know how to do it (it's not illegal in any way!), please send me a private message.

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A grab bag of full-downloads I have recently run across.

Babrius (fables in choliambics; late) by W.G. Rutherford. Has extensive notes in English beneath the main text.
Plato's Euthyphro by W.A. Heidel. Notes again extensive.
The Isthmian Odes of Pindar, J.B. Bury. This is still highly enough regarded that modern commentators (Verdenius) still respond to it.
The Nemean Odes of Pindar, J.B. Bury. This was less carefully scanned.

All the works for Aristotle I've run across are shoddy scans.

Not exactly classical, but probably of interest to some textkittens, is E. Nestle's Syriac Grammar with Bibliography, Chrestomathy and Glossary. It's in an unforgiving style, but still something of a classic.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/http://www.scholiastae.org/
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And a little Euripides...

Medea, A.W. Verrall. A fine scan, notes below the text.
Bacchae, A.H. Cruickshank. Pretty good scan, notes after text.
Cyclops, W.E. Long. Mostly good scan, with a few iffy pages. Notes after text.
Alcestis, H.W. Hayley. Acceptable scan; large apparatus, notes after text.
Hecuba, A.W. Upcott. Good scan; a beginners' edition with notes and vocab after text.
Iphigenia in Tauris, W.N. Bates. Mostly good scan; freaky metrical analysis, notes under text.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/http://www.scholiastae.org/
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A few on Greek verse composition have been appearing.

An Introduction to Greek Verse Composition with Exercises, Sidgwick & Morice. This is the classic. On iambics only.
Greek verse composition, a revised ed. of the Greek verses of Shrewsbury school, by G. Preston. Old-fashioned conception of the iambic trimeter, but includes it, tetrameters and anapests in the exercises. Starts you off on half-lines.
Demonstrations in Greek Iambic Verse, W.H.D. Rouse. Thorough and somewhat terrifying, but much to be learned here. A few pages in the scan are blurry.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;

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I cannot see what you post in Google Books, Annis.
If someone is interested, there are available the discourses of Dion Chrysostom at Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=YhYtAA ... m&as_brr=1
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Have all of you people who are unable to download or access googlebooks tried going through a US proxy? This one works for me in Australia:

http://www.surfie.info/

If it doesn't work for you, there are plenty more here:

http://www.publicwebproxies.com/web_pro ... ers_1.html

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Thank you very much. I did not know what was a proxy. Excuse me. :oops:
P.S.: Welcome to Textkit.

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The problem with the proxies I tried was that you still can't download the books; only view them. Can your proxy download, Briggsy?

Ingrid

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briggsy wrote:Have all of you people who are unable to download or access googlebooks tried going through a US proxy? This one works for me in Australia:

http://www.surfie.info/
...
Thanks a hell lot!
This proxy works even to downloading! I'm in Korea.
I've just downloaded "Treatise on Conic Sections" by Apollonius of Perga, translated by T. L. Heath., the book I searched for desperately for years.

(edit)
I'd welcome free Greek and Arabic version of this book. But although this is an English translation, it contains short greek quotes, which suits my level for practices. :)
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ingrid70 wrote:The problem with the proxies I tried was that you still can't download the books; only view them. Can your proxy download, Briggsy?

Ingrid
I have used this one to download:
http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/

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Thanks a lot! That works!

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