The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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Page 857
... Demetrius outdid them all ; for the very shoes which he wore he had made in a most costly manner ; for in its form it was a kind of buskin , made of most expensive purple wool ; and on this the makers wove a great deal of golden ...
... Demetrius outdid them all ; for the very shoes which he wore he had made in a most costly manner ; for in its form it was a kind of buskin , made of most expensive purple wool ; and on this the makers wove a great deal of golden ...
Page 867
... Demetrius Phalereus , as Duris says in the six- teenth volume of his Histories , being possessed of a revenue of twelve hundred talents a - year , and spending a small por- tion of it on his soldiers , and on the necessary expenses of ...
... Demetrius Phalereus , as Duris says in the six- teenth volume of his Histories , being possessed of a revenue of twelve hundred talents a - year , and spending a small por- tion of it on his soldiers , and on the necessary expenses of ...
Page 868
... Demetrius , like the sun in face , Honours you , Bacchus , with a holy worship . And Carystius of Pergamus , in the third book of his Com- mentaries , says- " Demetrius Phalereus , when his brother Himeræus was put to death by Antipater ...
... Demetrius , like the sun in face , Honours you , Bacchus , with a holy worship . And Carystius of Pergamus , in the third book of his Com- mentaries , says- " Demetrius Phalereus , when his brother Himeræus was put to death by Antipater ...
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... Demetrius of Byzantium , in the fourth book of his trea- tise on Poems , says " Gorgias the Leontine , being once asked by some one what was the cause of his living more than a hundred years , said that it was because he had never done ...
... Demetrius of Byzantium , in the fourth book of his trea- tise on Poems , says " Gorgias the Leontine , being once asked by some one what was the cause of his living more than a hundred years , said that it was because he had never done ...
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... Demetrius Phalereus , and Satyrus the Peripatetic , and Aristoxenus ; who were pre- ceded in it by Aristotle , who relates the same story in his 1 dipuns meaning , " of double nature . " was on Nobleness of Birth . Unless perhaps this ...
... Demetrius Phalereus , and Satyrus the Peripatetic , and Aristoxenus ; who were pre- ceded in it by Aristotle , who relates the same story in his 1 dipuns meaning , " of double nature . " was on Nobleness of Birth . Unless perhaps this ...
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