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... , an eatable bird . It appears also , that the Greeks eat hedge - hogs , foxes , locusts , moles , otters , and cats . ( see Athenæus , L. 17 , p . 300. ) The Megareans brought salt , swine , garlick , & c . , ACHARNENSES . 5.
... , an eatable bird . It appears also , that the Greeks eat hedge - hogs , foxes , locusts , moles , otters , and cats . ( see Athenæus , L. 17 , p . 300. ) The Megareans brought salt , swine , garlick , & c . , ACHARNENSES . 5.
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... 633. Και φορησω το ξιφος . This alludes to the Scolion of Harmodius and Aristogēiton . Εν μυρτου Kλadi To Sipos popnow , & c . , preserved by Athenæus , L. 15. p . 695 . 643. ' Hppipopovv . A double meaning , quasi dix-
... 633. Και φορησω το ξιφος . This alludes to the Scolion of Harmodius and Aristogēiton . Εν μυρτου Kλadi To Sipos popnow , & c . , preserved by Athenæus , L. 15. p . 695 . 643. ' Hppipopovv . A double meaning , quasi dix-
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... Athenæus shews from an oration of Lysias , L. 13. p . 586 , that this should be read Naïs : but the Scholiast attempts to shew that the time would not permit it to be Aaïs , as she was only seven years of age , when Chabrias was Archon ...
... Athenæus shews from an oration of Lysias , L. 13. p . 586 , that this should be read Naïs : but the Scholiast attempts to shew that the time would not permit it to be Aaïs , as she was only seven years of age , when Chabrias was Archon ...
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... Athenæus , and hence he appears to have lived con- temporary with Stratis . 1 In the Scholiast we read the name uniformly written Στρατιs , and in Athenæus Στραττις .— [ MATHIAS . ] NOTES ON PLATO VOL . IV . F [ Published 64 NOTES ON ...
... Athenæus , and hence he appears to have lived con- temporary with Stratis . 1 In the Scholiast we read the name uniformly written Στρατιs , and in Athenæus Στραττις .— [ MATHIAS . ] NOTES ON PLATO VOL . IV . F [ Published 64 NOTES ON ...
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... Athens . His instruction and treatment of his slaves ; his knowledge in agricul- ture . His father before him was a ... Athenæus , L. 12. Plutarch de Malign . Herodoti . 6 ¿ AаKKOTTλOUTOs , uti et avus . Plut . in Aristide . Herodot . 7 ...
... Athens . His instruction and treatment of his slaves ; his knowledge in agricul- ture . His father before him was a ... Athenæus , L. 12. Plutarch de Malign . Herodoti . 6 ¿ AаKKOTTλOUTOs , uti et avus . Plut . in Aristide . Herodot . 7 ...
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Page 217 - ... not under their senses, they were fain to borrow words from ordinary known ideas of sensation, by that means to make others the more easily to conceive those operations they experimented in themselves, which made no outward sensible appearances...
Page 269 - Druids held the immortality of the soul, and a state of future rewards and punishments...
Page 127 - Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not; it is what 'eye hath not seen, ear not heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive'.
Page 127 - ... in its natural state. But yet excess of cold as well as heat pains us, because it is equally destructive to that temper which is necessary to the preservation of life, and the exercise of the several functions of the body, and which consists in a moderate degree of warmth ; or, if you please, a motion of the insensible parts of our bodies, confined within certain bounds.
Page 212 - who are possessed of this faculty,' (that is, of fetching a voice from the belly or stomach) 'can manage their voice in so wonderful a manner that it shall seem to come from what part they please, not of themselves only, but of any other person in the company, or even from the bottom of a well, down a chimney, from below stairs, &c. &c. of which I myself have been witness.
Page 241 - there is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength. When the entire sexes are compared together, the female is doubtless the inferior ; but in individuals, the woman has often the advantage of the man."* In this opinion I have no doubt that Plato is in the right.
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| Title | Notes on Aristophanes and Plato Volume 4 of The Works of Thomas Gray: In Prose and Verse, Edmund Gosse Volume 4 of Works in Prose and Verse, Edmund Gosse |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Editor | Edmund Gosse |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1884 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 4 pages |
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