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... poems of Asius , to prove that they used to wear armlets on their arms ; and that , when celebrating the festival of the Herea , they used to go about with their hair carefully combed down over the back of their head and over their ...
... poems of Asius , to prove that they used to wear armlets on their arms ; and that , when celebrating the festival of the Herea , they used to go about with their hair carefully combed down over the back of their head and over their ...
Page 878
... 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 anything to please any one else except himself . " And Ochus ...
... 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 anything to please any one else except himself . " And Ochus ...
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... poems - a man entirely without any education . 73. Therefore I , considering that Love is a mighty and most powerful deity , and that the Golden Venus is so too , recollect the verses of Euripides on the subject , and say— Dost thou not ...
... poems - a man entirely without any education . 73. Therefore I , considering that Love is a mighty and most powerful deity , and that the Golden Venus is so too , recollect the verses of Euripides on the subject , and say— Dost thou not ...
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... poems of this kind ; which in ancient times were called Taidià and waidikά . And , in fact , there was such emulation about composing poems of this sort , and so far was any one from thinking lightly of the amatory poets , that Eschylus ...
... poems of this kind ; which in ancient times were called Taidià and waidikά . And , in fact , there was such emulation about composing poems of this sort , and so far was any one from thinking lightly of the amatory poets , that Eschylus ...
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... poems as turn on boys and favourites of that kind ; while the fashion of making favourites of boys was first introduced among the Grecians from Crete , as Timæus informs us . But others say that Laius was the originator of this custom ...
... poems as turn on boys and favourites of that kind ; while the fashion of making favourites of boys was first introduced among the Grecians from Crete , as Timæus informs us . But others say that Laius was the originator of this custom ...
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