Notes on Aristophanes and PlatoMacmillan, 1884 - 4 pages |
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... ancient glory is declared ; but he afterwards grew negligent , drunken , and despised in his old age . Connas , the tibicen , lost his former reputation . 524. The passage cited from the Pytine of Cratinus in PAGE THESMOPHORIAZUSÆ ...
... ancient glory is declared ; but he afterwards grew negligent , drunken , and despised in his old age . Connas , the tibicen , lost his former reputation . 524. The passage cited from the Pytine of Cratinus in PAGE THESMOPHORIAZUSÆ ...
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... against the school of Socrates , exploded : he reckons it his best piece : ancient Scholia , sung after meals , on Harmodius : the beginning of another by Alcæus : Adμητov Xoyos : the Paræria 14 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES .
... against the school of Socrates , exploded : he reckons it his best piece : ancient Scholia , sung after meals , on Harmodius : the beginning of another by Alcæus : Adμητov Xoyos : the Paræria 14 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES .
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... ancient musick . 981. Schol . Cecides , was an ancient dithyrambick . 1047. All natural warm baths were sacred to Hercules . 1264. Carcinus introduced in his tragedies , certain deities deploring and lamenting themselves . A parody of ...
... ancient musick . 981. Schol . Cecides , was an ancient dithyrambick . 1047. All natural warm baths were sacred to Hercules . 1264. Carcinus introduced in his tragedies , certain deities deploring and lamenting themselves . A parody of ...
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... ancient enemies had been continually weakening themselves by war , should ( at a time when their truce with Sparta was on the point of expiring ) attempt to form a league by drawing their discontented allies from them , and setting ...
... ancient enemies had been continually weakening themselves by war , should ( at a time when their truce with Sparta was on the point of expiring ) attempt to form a league by drawing their discontented allies from them , and setting ...
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... ancient Athenians , thoroughly weary of the folly , injustice , and litigious temper of their countrymen , determine to leave Attica for good and all ; and having heard much of the fame of Epops , king of the birds , who was once a man ...
... ancient Athenians , thoroughly weary of the folly , injustice , and litigious temper of their countrymen , determine to leave Attica for good and all ; and having heard much of the fame of Epops , king of the birds , who was once a man ...
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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.