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He seems to mean that they sent their Etpatnyou on various useless embassies , who gladly accepted them , as well to be out of the way of danger , as to earn the publick allowance , two or three drachmæ a day , and to be out of the ...
He seems to mean that they sent their Etpatnyou on various useless embassies , who gladly accepted them , as well to be out of the way of danger , as to earn the publick allowance , two or three drachmæ a day , and to be out of the ...
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It is certain that this comedy was played during the Lenæa , and many parts of it seem a representation of the festival itself , as v . 238 , where Dicæopolis and ... Hence it seems probable , that it was used alike in the Lenæa . 1029.
It is certain that this comedy was played during the Lenæa , and many parts of it seem a representation of the festival itself , as v . 238 , where Dicæopolis and ... Hence it seems probable , that it was used alike in the Lenæa . 1029.
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It seems , that Cleon , for his success at Sphacteria , had a publick maintenance allowed him in the Prytaneum . 399. The sottishness of Cratinus . - Morsimus , the son of Philocles , wrote Tragedy . 404. The TeO PIATTOL of Simonides ...
It seems , that Cleon , for his success at Sphacteria , had a publick maintenance allowed him in the Prytaneum . 399. The sottishness of Cratinus . - Morsimus , the son of Philocles , wrote Tragedy . 404. The TeO PIATTOL of Simonides ...
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The ships were delivered to the Trierarchs , by the Etpatnyou ( who seem to have appointed them ) and belonged to ... The Ew popai were paid by the richer citizens , . a catalogue of whom seems to have been drawn by the Στρατηγοι . 947.
The ships were delivered to the Trierarchs , by the Etpatnyou ( who seem to have appointed them ) and belonged to ... The Ew popai were paid by the richer citizens , . a catalogue of whom seems to have been drawn by the Στρατηγοι . 947.
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It seems to be the old man who says this , not his son ; and Bdelycleon answers ; Απoλλoν αποτροπαιε , & c . 240. Ως εσται Λαχητι νυνι ( i.e. δικη . ) & c . Laches , who had been recalled from his command in Sicily two years before this ...
It seems to be the old man who says this , not his son ; and Bdelycleon answers ; Απoλλoν αποτροπαιε , & c . 240. Ως εσται Λαχητι νυνι ( i.e. δικη . ) & c . Laches , who had been recalled from his command in Sicily two years before this ...
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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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