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... Cratinus in his Chirones , speaking of the luxury of the former generations , says— There was a scent of delicate thyme besides , And roses too , and lilies by my ear ; And in my hands I held an apple , and A staff , and thus I did ...
... Cratinus in his Chirones , speaking of the luxury of the former generations , says— There was a scent of delicate thyme besides , And roses too , and lilies by my ear ; And in my hands I held an apple , and A staff , and thus I did ...
Page 907
... Cratinus says , but who have one foot made of cow - dung ? and do you bring up again the recollection of that poet your namesake , who spends all his time in cookshops and inns ? although Iso- crates the orator has said , in his ...
... Cratinus says , but who have one foot made of cow - dung ? and do you bring up again the recollection of that poet your namesake , who spends all his time in cookshops and inns ? although Iso- crates the orator has said , in his ...
Page 951
... Cratinus mentions in the following lines- * Posidippus also made this epigram on Doricha , although he had often mentioned her in his Ethiopia , and this is the epigram- Here , Doricha , your bones have long been laid c . 69. ] 951 ...
... Cratinus mentions in the following lines- * Posidippus also made this epigram on Doricha , although he had often mentioned her in his Ethiopia , and this is the epigram- Here , Doricha , your bones have long been laid c . 69. ] 951 ...
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... Cratinus the Athenian , are very notorious . For he , being a very beautiful boy , at the time when Epimenides was purifying Attica by human sacrifices , on account of some old pollution , as Nean- thes of Cyzicus relates in the second ...
... Cratinus the Athenian , are very notorious . For he , being a very beautiful boy , at the time when Epimenides was purifying Attica by human sacrifices , on account of some old pollution , as Nean- thes of Cyzicus relates in the second ...
Page 961
... Cratinus and Aristodemus are stated by Polemo Peri- egetes , in his Replies to Neanthes , to be all mere inventions . But you , O Cynulcus , believe that all these stories are true , let them be ever so false . And you take the greatest ...
... Cratinus and Aristodemus are stated by Polemo Peri- egetes , in his Replies to Neanthes , to be all mere inventions . But you , O Cynulcus , believe that all these stories are true , let them be ever so false . And you take the greatest ...
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