Plutarch's Morals, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1870 |
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Page 81 - My soul impels me to the' embattled plains; Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories, and my own. " Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates...
Page 58 - Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Page 41 - To whom great Ajax his high soul express'd, ' O sage ! to Hector be these words address'd. Let him, who first provoked our chiefs to fight, Let him demand the sanction of the night ; If first he ask it, I content obey, And cease the strife when Hector shows the way.
Page 69 - E'en by that god I swear who rules the day, To whom thy hands the vows of Greece convey, And whose bless'd oracles thy lips declare; Long as Achilles breathes this vital air, No daring Greek, of all the numerous band, Against his priest shall lift an impious hand; Not e'en the chief by whom our hosts are led, The king of kings, shall touch that sacred head.
Page 47 - Jove lifts the golden balances, that show The fates of mortal men and things below : Here each contending hero's lot he tries, And weighs, with equal hand, their destinies. Low sinks the scale surcharg'd with Hector's fate ; Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight.
Page 77 - Hector! approach my arm, and singly know What strength thou hast, and what the Grecian foe. Achilles shuns the fight; yet some there are, Not void of soul, and not unskill'd in war: Let him...
Page 314 - High o'er the slain the great Achilles stands, Begirt with heroes and surrounding bands; And thus aloud, while all the host attends: Princes and leaders! countrymen and friends! Since now at length the powerful will of Heaven The dire destroyer to our arm has given, Is not Troy fall'n already?
Page 54 - IV. 104. us other hints from actions. As Euripides is reported, when some blamed him for bringing such an impious and flagitious villain as Ixion upon the stage, to have given this answer : But yet I brought him not off till I had fastened him to a torturing wheel. This same way of teaching by mute actions is to be found in Homer also, affording us useful contemplations upon those very fables which are usually most disliked in him. These some men offer force to, that they may reduce them to allegories...
Page 151 - Exploring Pandarus with careful eyes. At length he found Lycaon's mighty son ; To whom the chief of Venus' race begun : "Where, Pandarus, are all thy honours now, Thy winged arrows and unerring bow, Thy matchless skill, thy yet...
Page 411 - Clazomenian, that for several nights and days it would leave his body, travel over many countries, and return after it had viewed things, and discoursed with persons at a great distance, till at last, by the treachery of a woman, his body was delivered to his enemies, who burned the house while the inhabitant was abroad.