The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H. G. Bohn, 1854 - 1252 pages |
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... young people , can be entirely stifled , and which is inju- rious also to the body , and injurious also to the mind , both as far as its intellectual powers are concerned , and also as to its temperance , entitled to be called a ...
... young people , can be entirely stifled , and which is inju- rious also to the body , and injurious also to the mind , both as far as its intellectual powers are concerned , and also as to its temperance , entitled to be called a ...
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... young branches of all the trees which grew in the city , and till they had endured a siege for eleven months , without any one coming to their assistance ; and they did not even then surrender without the permission of the Romans . " 37 ...
... young branches of all the trees which grew in the city , and till they had endured a siege for eleven months , without any one coming to their assistance ; and they did not even then surrender without the permission of the Romans . " 37 ...
Page 852
... young men spent all their time among flute - players and courtesans ; and those who were a little older than they , devoted themselves to gambling , and profligacy of that sort ; and the whole people spent more money on its public ...
... young men spent all their time among flute - players and courtesans ; and those who were a little older than they , devoted themselves to gambling , and profligacy of that sort ; and the whole people spent more money on its public ...
Page 853
... young men bearing bags of money . And he ordered them to give money to whoever came to him to ask anything of him . And they say that he also often con- tributed towards the expense of funerals . And this too is a thing that he often ...
... young men bearing bags of money . And he ordered them to give money to whoever came to him to ask anything of him . And they say that he also often con- tributed towards the expense of funerals . And this too is a thing that he often ...
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... young , And set his mind to learn philosophy . And then a Cyrenean , as he calls himself , Named Aristippus , an ingenious sophist , And far the first of all the men of his time , But also far the most intemperate , Was in the c . 63 ...
... young , And set his mind to learn philosophy . And then a Cyrenean , as he calls himself , Named Aristippus , an ingenious sophist , And far the first of all the men of his time , But also far the most intemperate , Was in the c . 63 ...
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