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... ENEMIES 153 201 ON TALKATIVENESS 214 ON CURIOSITY 238 ON SHYNESS 252 ON RESTRAINING ANGER 267 ON CONTENTEDNESS OF MIND 289 ON ENVY AND HATRED . . . 312 HOW ONE CAN PRAISE ONESELF WITHOUT EXCITING ENVY ON THOSE WHO ARE PUNISHED BY THE ...
... ENEMIES 153 201 ON TALKATIVENESS 214 ON CURIOSITY 238 ON SHYNESS 252 ON RESTRAINING ANGER 267 ON CONTENTEDNESS OF MIND 289 ON ENVY AND HATRED . . . 312 HOW ONE CAN PRAISE ONESELF WITHOUT EXCITING ENVY ON THOSE WHO ARE PUNISHED BY THE ...
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... enemies to learning . But why dwell on this ? For I am in a hurry to pass to the most important point . Our lads must be trained for warlike encounters , making themselves efficient in hurling the javelin and darts , and in the chase ...
... enemies to learning . But why dwell on this ? For I am in a hurry to pass to the most important point . Our lads must be trained for warlike encounters , making themselves efficient in hurling the javelin and darts , and in the chase ...
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... enemy . The same Theocritus put Antigonus , the King of the Macedonians , a one - eyed man , into a thundering rage by alluding to his misfortune . For the King sent his chief cook , Eutropio , an important person at his court , to go ...
... enemy . The same Theocritus put Antigonus , the King of the Macedonians , a one - eyed man , into a thundering rage by alluding to his misfortune . For the King sent his chief cook , Eutropio , an important person at his court , to go ...
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... enemy , but at the bidding of his own god is ' ready ' for his friend ' to go through fire and water and whirlwinds . ' And in Sophocles ' play , when the sons of Niobe are being shot at and dying , one of them calls out for no helper ...
... enemy , but at the bidding of his own god is ' ready ' for his friend ' to go through fire and water and whirlwinds . ' And in Sophocles ' play , when the sons of Niobe are being shot at and dying , one of them calls out for no helper ...
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... enemy's cavalry . So they begged that high - souled hero Cleomachus to charge the Eretrian cavalry first . And he asked his boy - love , who was by , if he would be a spectator of the fight , and he saying he would , and affectionately ...
... enemy's cavalry . So they begged that high - souled hero Cleomachus to charge the Eretrian cavalry first . And he asked his boy - love , who was by , if he would be a spectator of the fight , and he saying he would , and affectionately ...
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