The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... ancients , as a comparison between pleasure and virtue . Ac- . cordingly , when Venus , that is to say pleasure , was preferred , everything was thrown into confusion . And that excellent writer Xenophon seems to me to have invented his ...
... ancients , as a comparison between pleasure and virtue . Ac- . cordingly , when Venus , that is to say pleasure , was preferred , everything was thrown into confusion . And that excellent writer Xenophon seems to me to have invented his ...
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... ancient than Stesichorus , as dgorica lampole tells us , does not , according to the state- of Alpactado i płotho him in this dress , but in that which Hat Sitestohorus perverted a great many a green by authus , as he does also in the ...
... ancient than Stesichorus , as dgorica lampole tells us , does not , according to the state- of Alpactado i płotho him in this dress , but in that which Hat Sitestohorus perverted a great many a green by authus , as he does also in the ...
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... ancient Persian bravery becoming extinct , and they are solicitous only to preserve the effeminacy of the Medes . And I think it a good opportunity to give an account of their luxurious habits c . 10. ] 825 LUXURY OF THE PERSIANS .
... ancient Persian bravery becoming extinct , and they are solicitous only to preserve the effeminacy of the Medes . And I think it a good opportunity to give an account of their luxurious habits c . 10. ] 825 LUXURY OF THE PERSIANS .
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... ancient insult . So against her a Lydian man of noble birth rose up , one who had been previously offended at the government of Midas ; while Midas lay in effeminacy , and luxury , and a purple robe , working in the company of the women ...
... ancient insult . So against her a Lydian man of noble birth rose up , one who had been previously offended at the government of Midas ; while Midas lay in effeminacy , and luxury , and a purple robe , working in the company of the women ...
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... ancient race of Hercules . " 51. Fharax the Lacedæmonian also indulged himself in uvury , as Theopompus tells us in the fourteenth book of his History , " and he abandoned himself to pleasure in so disso- Jute and unrestrained a manner ...
... ancient race of Hercules . " 51. Fharax the Lacedæmonian also indulged himself in uvury , as Theopompus tells us in the fourteenth book of his History , " and he abandoned himself to pleasure in so disso- Jute and unrestrained a manner ...
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