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... turn out drunkards . And so Diogenes , seeing a youth out of his mind and crazy , said , " Young man , your father was drunk when he begot you . " Let this hint serve as to procreation : now let us discuss education . : § IV . To speak ...
... turn out drunkards . And so Diogenes , seeing a youth out of his mind and crazy , said , " Young man , your father was drunk when he begot you . " Let this hint serve as to procreation : now let us discuss education . : § IV . To speak ...
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... turn away from 66 66 1 Compare the character of Micio in the " Adelphi " of Terence . 2 This saying is assigned by Diogenes Laertius to Pittacus . 3 Compare Plautus , " Asinaria , " i . 1. 74 . imperium vendidi . " Compare also our ...
... turn away from 66 66 1 Compare the character of Micio in the " Adelphi " of Terence . 2 This saying is assigned by Diogenes Laertius to Pittacus . 3 Compare Plautus , " Asinaria , " i . 1. 74 . imperium vendidi . " Compare also our ...
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... turns to it and smiles at it , and takes it up and caresses it , though she derives no pleasure or utility from it , but with pain and sorrow receives it , " warming it and fostering it sometimes speak more plainly than we can . Ever ...
... turns to it and smiles at it , and takes it up and caresses it , though she derives no pleasure or utility from it , but with pain and sorrow receives it , " warming it and fostering it sometimes speak more plainly than we can . Ever ...
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... turns her back on you . ' If , however , we ought to give the name of love to this passion , then is it an effeminate and bastard love , and like at Cynosarges , * taking us to the woman's side of the house : or rather as In a Greek ...
... turns her back on you . ' If , however , we ought to give the name of love to this passion , then is it an effeminate and bastard love , and like at Cynosarges , * taking us to the woman's side of the house : or rather as In a Greek ...
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... turn out intoler- able tyrants , Syrian flute - girls and ballet - dancers , as Aris- tonica , and Enanthe with her tambourine , and Agatho- clea , who have lorded it over kings ' diadems.2 Why Syrian Semiramis was only the servant and ...
... turn out intoler- able tyrants , Syrian flute - girls and ballet - dancers , as Aris- tonica , and Enanthe with her tambourine , and Agatho- clea , who have lorded it over kings ' diadems.2 Why Syrian Semiramis was only the servant and ...
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