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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... verse of the Latin satirist- poet , Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci , 66 99 he protests : - no one , if not Lucian , has succeeded in illus- trating this truth . He has imitated the raillery , without copying the wantonness ...
... verse of the Latin satirist- poet , Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci , 66 99 he protests : - no one , if not Lucian , has succeeded in illus- trating this truth . He has imitated the raillery , without copying the wantonness ...
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... verse of Homer : - : - " Let one or other lift his man . " » 2 Diogenes . Why , Krates ? Krates . They used to court and wheedle one the other for the sake of the expected legacy ( being of the same age ) , and publicly registered their ...
... verse of Homer : - : - " Let one or other lift his man . " » 2 Diogenes . Why , Krates ? Krates . They used to court and wheedle one the other for the sake of the expected legacy ( being of the same age ) , and publicly registered their ...
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... verses , Ep . i . 1 , 17 , 23 , 24 , and Ep . i . 1 , 18 . 3 The two Dionysii , uncle and nephew , the celebrated tyrants of Sicily . According to some of the biographers or historians , Plato suffered for his plain - speaking to the ...
... verses , Ep . i . 1 , 17 , 23 , 24 , and Ep . i . 1 , 18 . 3 The two Dionysii , uncle and nephew , the celebrated tyrants of Sicily . According to some of the biographers or historians , Plato suffered for his plain - speaking to the ...
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... verse ) had become the object of so much ridicule . Some difficulty arises , at the outset , on the question of precedence , both because ( the representative statues of the divinities being variously formed of gold , silver , ivory ...
... verse ) had become the object of so much ridicule . Some difficulty arises , at the outset , on the question of precedence , both because ( the representative statues of the divinities being variously formed of gold , silver , ivory ...
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... verse he announces the approaching renewal of hostilities , in the oracular strain so dear to Apollo , and so well known to readers of Herodotus , of the ' Opvibes and ' Inç of Aristophanes , and of Lucian . The Celestials arrange ...
... verse he announces the approaching renewal of hostilities , in the oracular strain so dear to Apollo , and so well known to readers of Herodotus , of the ' Opvibes and ' Inç of Aristophanes , and of Lucian . The Celestials arrange ...
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