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Euthydemo , and consequently the year before his Equites . In the sixth line he mentions the fine imposed on Cleon , of five talents ; so that it is not true , that his Equites was the occasion of that disgrace ( see v .
Euthydemo , and consequently the year before his Equites . In the sixth line he mentions the fine imposed on Cleon , of five talents ; so that it is not true , that his Equites was the occasion of that disgrace ( see v .
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586 , that this should be read Nais : 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 ; and consequently under Diocles , Ol . 92.
586 , that this should be read Nais : 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 ; and consequently under Diocles , Ol . 92.
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4 , and , consequently , it must have NOTES . bon has not explained this . See also Laertius in Protagoras , L. 9. 54. We have still an oration of Alcidamas in the person of Ulysses against Palamedes .
4 , and , consequently , it must have NOTES . bon has not explained this . See also Laertius in Protagoras , L. 9. 54. We have still an oration of Alcidamas in the person of Ulysses against Palamedes .
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Plat . Op . Serrani , Vol . 1. p . 121 . P. 124. Tov vewati Apxovta . ] Archelaus was then just come to the throne , and consequently this year , in which Diodorus first mentions him , was , it is probable , the first of his reign .
Plat . Op . Serrani , Vol . 1. p . 121 . P. 124. Tov vewati Apxovta . ] Archelaus was then just come to the throne , and consequently this year , in which Diodorus first mentions him , was , it is probable , the first of his reign .
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good sense for its basis ; that it consists in the knowledge of what is , and what is not , to be feared ; and that , consequently , we must first distinguish between real good and evil ; and that it is closely connected with the other ...
good sense for its basis ; that it consists in the knowledge of what is , and what is not , to be feared ; and that , consequently , we must first distinguish between real good and evil ; and that it is closely connected with the other ...
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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...
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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.
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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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