The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... Gods , when they came to see him in fetters- Behold , on wrong Swift vengeance waits , and art subdues the strong . Dwells there a god on all th ' Olympian brow More swift than Mars , and more than Vulcan slow ? Yet Vulcan conquers ...
... Gods , when they came to see him in fetters- Behold , on wrong Swift vengeance waits , and art subdues the strong . Dwells there a god on all th ' Olympian brow More swift than Mars , and more than Vulcan slow ? Yet Vulcan conquers ...
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... Gods , as if pleasure was like a child , incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong . " And in the eighth book of his Polity , the same Plato has previously dilated upon the doctrine so much pressed by the Epicureans , that ...
... Gods , as if pleasure was like a child , incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong . " And in the eighth book of his Polity , the same Plato has previously dilated upon the doctrine so much pressed by the Epicureans , that ...
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... gods Have nothing to be envied for . And Pindar , giving advice to Hiero the tyrant of Syracuse , says- Never obscure fair pleasure in your life ; A life of pleasure is the best for man . And Homer , too , speaks of pleasure and ...
... gods Have nothing to be envied for . And Pindar , giving advice to Hiero the tyrant of Syracuse , says- Never obscure fair pleasure in your life ; A life of pleasure is the best for man . And Homer , too , speaks of pleasure and ...
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Athenaeus (of Naucratis.) And again , he calls the gods " living at ease . " And " at éase " cored 12y means " without labour ; " as if he meant to show by ta's expression , that the greatest of all evils is labour and we do m lue ủ ...
Athenaeus (of Naucratis.) And again , he calls the gods " living at ease . " And " at éase " cored 12y means " without labour ; " as if he meant to show by ta's expression , that the greatest of all evils is labour and we do m lue ủ ...
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... Gods with Jove assume their thrones of gold ; Immortal Hebe , fresh with bloom divine , The golden goblet crowns with purple wine ; While the full bowl flows round the Powers employ Their careful eyes on long - contended Troy . And the ...
... Gods with Jove assume their thrones of gold ; Immortal Hebe , fresh with bloom divine , The golden goblet crowns with purple wine ; While the full bowl flows round the Powers employ Their careful eyes on long - contended Troy . And the ...
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