Notes on Aristophanes and PlatoMacmillan, 1884 - 4 pages |
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... poet.— Euripides and Cephisophon ridiculed . The Æneus , Phoenix , Philoctetes , Bellerophon , Telephus , Thyestes , and Ino of Euripides , are laughed at , where he had introduced the principal characters in poor apparel to move ...
... poet.— Euripides and Cephisophon ridiculed . The Æneus , Phoenix , Philoctetes , Bellerophon , Telephus , Thyestes , and Ino of Euripides , are laughed at , where he had introduced the principal characters in poor apparel to move ...
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... Poet's life , and Mad . Dacier also , seriously report as a fact . 703. Is this the Thucydides , son of Melesias , who underwent the ostracism , or , as Idomeneus says ( see Schol . ad Vespas , v . 941 ) , perpetual banishment , and ...
... Poet's life , and Mad . Dacier also , seriously report as a fact . 703. Is this the Thucydides , son of Melesias , who underwent the ostracism , or , as Idomeneus says ( see Schol . ad Vespas , v . 941 ) , perpetual banishment , and ...
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... poet , had great success in his plays , named , Βαρβιτιδες , Ορνιθες , Ψῆνες , Βατραχοι , Avdo , but was hissed off the stage in his decline . 523. Κρατίνου μεμνημενος . Cratinus - his ancient glory is declared ; but he afterwards grew ...
... poet , had great success in his plays , named , Βαρβιτιδες , Ορνιθες , Ψῆνες , Βατραχοι , Avdo , but was hissed off the stage in his decline . 523. Κρατίνου μεμνημενος . Cratinus - his ancient glory is declared ; but he afterwards grew ...
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... poet must allude here to some other similar passage ; as the Pytine was not played till the following year , and ( as the Scholia say afterwards ) written upon the provo- cation here given by Aristophanes . 534. Crates ; his various ...
... poet must allude here to some other similar passage ; as the Pytine was not played till the following year , and ( as the Scholia say afterwards ) written upon the provo- cation here given by Aristophanes . 534. Crates ; his various ...
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... poet , of which we know little . 1300. Didymus and others take these lines for nonsense . 1408. I know not why this character is called Euri- pides it seems a mistake . 1418. Example of a Sybaritic tale . 1481. Besides Phrynichus , son ...
... poet , of which we know little . 1300. Didymus and others take these lines for nonsense . 1408. I know not why this character is called Euri- pides it seems a mistake . 1418. Example of a Sybaritic tale . 1481. Besides Phrynichus , son ...
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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.