Lucian's Dialogues: Namely the Dialogues of the Gods, of the Sea-gods, and of the Dead; Zeus the Tragedian, the Ferry-boat, EtcG. Bell and sons, 1888 - 315 pages |
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Page xix
... holds up every folly to ridicule , how he seasons everything with his wonderful wit - touching no absurdity that he does not cover with some irony or satire ! Such grace , con- tinues Erasmus , echoing the dictum of Archbishop Photius ...
... holds up every folly to ridicule , how he seasons everything with his wonderful wit - touching no absurdity that he does not cover with some irony or satire ! Such grace , con- tinues Erasmus , echoing the dictum of Archbishop Photius ...
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... holds that " his merits can scarcely be over - estimated , ' and " considering him with reference to his own age , and to the Literature of Greece , " justly adds the learned his- torian , a position of the utmost importance must be ...
... holds that " his merits can scarcely be over - estimated , ' and " considering him with reference to his own age , and to the Literature of Greece , " justly adds the learned his- torian , a position of the utmost importance must be ...
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... hold of the affections of the body of the peoples ( as it continued to do , in fact , throughout the country districts , long after the State recognition of Christianity ) , while the great majority of the educated or influential ...
... hold of the affections of the body of the peoples ( as it continued to do , in fact , throughout the country districts , long after the State recognition of Christianity ) , while the great majority of the educated or influential ...
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... hold up indiscriminately to ridicule what was , in the main , a meritorious system of ( ethical ) philosophy - that , certainly , did not become the character of a just critic . He lived , indeed , before the appearance of the School of ...
... hold up indiscriminately to ridicule what was , in the main , a meritorious system of ( ethical ) philosophy - that , certainly , did not become the character of a just critic . He lived , indeed , before the appearance of the School of ...
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... hold the embryo . Poseidon . Ah ! I know . He has given birth again through his head - piece , as he did to Athena - it's his head he keeps for a breeding - place . Hermes . No , it was in his thigh that he was pregnant with Semele's 2 ...
... hold the embryo . Poseidon . Ah ! I know . He has given birth again through his head - piece , as he did to Athena - it's his head he keeps for a breeding - place . Hermes . No , it was in his thigh that he was pregnant with Semele's 2 ...
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Achilleus Alexander altogether Antisthenes Aphrodite Apollo appear Aristoph Athena Athenian beautiful Charon Cynic Cyniskus Damis dead death Destiny Dialogue Diogenes Dionysus divine Eakus Earth Eros Euripides everything fact famous Fates father fellow Ganymedes ghost give Goddess Gods gold Greek Hades handsome hear heaven Hellenic Hephæstus Hera Herakles Hermes hero Herod Hesiod Homer honour Jacobitz Jupiter Kerberus king Klotho Krates Kroesus Laert Lampichus laugh live Lucian means Megapenthes Menelaus Menippus Metam Mikyllus Minos Momus Nireus Notus Odysseus oracles oracular Paris parody Pausanias Persian philosophers Phrygian Plato Plutarch Pluto poet Polydeukes Polystratus Portrait Poseidon pray prophet Protesilaus punishment Rhadamanthys ridicule sacrifices satire ship Simylus Sokrates sort Sostratus speak suppose Tantalus Teiresias tell Terpsion Thetis things Timokles tion tomb Trans Triton verses viii vols Wieland youth Zephyrus Zeus γὰρ δὲ ἐν Ζεὺς καὶ Περὶ τε
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