Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... woman , for they charged him with intending to furnish them not with kings but kinglets . § III . Next must we mention , what was not overlooked even by those who handled this subject before us , that those who approach their wives for ...
... woman , for they charged him with intending to furnish them not with kings but kinglets . § III . Next must we mention , what was not overlooked even by those who handled this subject before us , that those who approach their wives for ...
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... woman , then come to her aid the Ilithyia , who help women in hard child- birth , those daughters of Hera , goddesses of travail , " were not written by Homer , but by some Homerid who had been a mother , or was even then in the throes ...
... woman , then come to her aid the Ilithyia , who help women in hard child- birth , those daughters of Hera , goddesses of travail , " were not written by Homer , but by some Homerid who had been a mother , or was even then in the throes ...
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... woman most disgraceful , than which no holier tie exists nor ever " " 1 It is difficult to know what the best English word here is . From the sly thrust in § ix . Pisias was evidently grey . I have therefore selected the word gravest ...
... woman most disgraceful , than which no holier tie exists nor ever " " 1 It is difficult to know what the best English word here is . From the sly thrust in § ix . Pisias was evidently grey . I have therefore selected the word gravest ...
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... woman's side of a house ; 1 and I also say that you who are sweet on women and girls only love them as flies love milk , and bees the honey - comb , and butchers and cooks calves and birds , fattening them up in darkness . But as nature ...
... woman's side of a house ; 1 and I also say that you who are sweet on women and girls only love them as flies love milk , and bees the honey - comb , and butchers and cooks calves and birds , fattening them up in darkness . But as nature ...
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... woman have a lover ; but we ought to guard against giving the wealth of Ismeno- dora to Baccho , lest , if we involve him in so much grandeur and magnificence , we unwittingly lose him in it , as tin is lost in brass . For if the lad ...
... woman have a lover ; but we ought to guard against giving the wealth of Ismeno- dora to Baccho , lest , if we involve him in so much grandeur and magnificence , we unwittingly lose him in it , as tin is lost in brass . For if the lad ...
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