The Anabasis, Or Expedition of Cyrus, and the Memorabilia of Socrates: Literally Tr. from the Greek of XenophonH. G. Bohn, 1854 - 518 pages |
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... hearing that Tamos had a number of galleys , belonging to the Lacedæ- monians and Cyrus himself , sailing round from Ionia to Cilicia . 22. Cyrus accordingly ascended the mountains without any opposition , and saw the tents in which the ...
... hearing that Tamos had a number of galleys , belonging to the Lacedæ- monians and Cyrus himself , sailing round from Ionia to Cilicia . 22. Cyrus accordingly ascended the mountains without any opposition , and saw the tents in which the ...
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... hearing these assur- ances , applauded him for saying that he would not march against the king ; and more than two thousand of the troops of Xenias and Pasion , taking with them their arms and baggage , went and encamped under Clearchus ...
... hearing these assur- ances , applauded him for saying that he would not march against the king ; and more than two thousand of the troops of Xenias and Pasion , taking with them their arms and baggage , went and encamped under Clearchus ...
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... Hearing this , Cyrus said , " We have before us , my friends , the empire that was my father's , extending , on the south , to the parts where men cannot live for heat ; and on the north , to the parts where they cannot live for cold ...
... Hearing this , Cyrus said , " We have before us , my friends , the empire that was my father's , extending , on the south , to the parts where men cannot live for heat ; and on the north , to the parts where they cannot live for cold ...
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... hearing this intelligence , and the other Greeks , on learning it from them , were grievously afflicted ; and Clearchus spoke thus : " Would that Cyrus were still alive ; but since he is no more , carry back word to Ariæus , 1 ...
... hearing this intelligence , and the other Greeks , on learning it from them , were grievously afflicted ; and Clearchus spoke thus : " Would that Cyrus were still alive ; but since he is no more , carry back word to Ariæus , 1 ...
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... hearing him speak thus , Phalinus smiled , and said , " You seem like a philosopher , young man , and express yourself not without grace ; but be assured that you are out of your senses if you imagine that your valour will prove ...
... hearing him speak thus , Phalinus smiled , and said , " You seem like a philosopher , young man , and express yourself not without grace ; but be assured that you are out of your senses if you imagine that your valour will prove ...
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Page vii - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page vii - Socrates the wisest of all men living, because he judiciously made choice of human nature for the object of his thoughts ; an inquiry into which as much exceeds all other learning, as it is of more consequence to adjust the true nature and measures of right and wrong, than to settle the distances of the planets, and compute the times of their circumvolutions.
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Page 472 - Are you willing then," said Socrates, " that we should make a delta on this side, and an alpha3 on that, and then that we should put whatever seems to us to be a work of justice under the delta, and whatever seems to be a work of injustice under the alpha?" "If you think that we need those letters," said Euthydemus,
Page 318 - Hence they proceeded three days' journey through a desert tract of country, a distance of fifteen parasangs, to the river Euphrates, and passed it without being wet higher than the middle. The sources of the river were said not to be far off. From hence they advanced three days...
Page 505 - ... preferred pleasure to virtue ; so wise, that he never erred in distinguishing better from worse, needing no counsel from others, but being sufficient in himself to discriminate between them ; so able to explain and settle such questions by argument ; and so capable of discerning the character of others, of confuting those who were in error, and of exhorting them to virtue and honour, he seemed to be such as the best and happiest of men would be. But if any one disapproves of my opinion, let him...
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Page 505 - To me, being such as I have described him, so pious that he did nothing without the sanction of the gods ; so just, that he wronged no man even in the most trifling affair, but was of service, in the most important matters, to those who enjoyed his society ; so temperate, that he never preferred pleasure to virtue; so wise, that he never erred in distinguishing better from worse, needing no counsel from others, but being sufficient in himself to discriminate between them ; so able to explain and...
Page 402 - Even when friends and slaves were sick, he said that he noticed people calling in physicians to their slaves, and carefully providing other means for their recovery, but paying no attention to their friends ; and that, if both died, they grieved for their slaves, and thought that they had suffered a loss, but considered that they lost nothing in losing friends. Of their other possessions they left nothing untended or unheeded, but when their friends required attention, they utterly neglected them....