The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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Page 852
... once jealous of his wife , cut her up with his own hands , beginning at her legs . 43. But in the thirteenth book of his History of the Affairs of Philip , speaking of Chabrias the Athenian , he says " But he was unable to live in the ...
... once jealous of his wife , cut her up with his own hands , beginning at her legs . 43. But in the thirteenth book of his History of the Affairs of Philip , speaking of Chabrias the Athenian , he says " But he was unable to live in the ...
Page 855
... once wishing to tempt his wife , he sent her a thousand Darics in another man's name : and being exceed- ingly beautiful in his person , he cherished his hair the greater part of his life , and used to wear an extraordinary kind of shoe ...
... once wishing to tempt his wife , he sent her a thousand Darics in another man's name : and being exceed- ingly beautiful in his person , he cherished his hair the greater part of his life , and used to wear an extraordinary kind of shoe ...
Page 858
... once ader Ad been afflicted by the gout We many days , when at he got a little better , and saw through his window blinds we Egyptians dining by the river side , and eating whatever it might be that they had , and lying at random on the ...
... once ader Ad been afflicted by the gout We many days , when at he got a little better , and saw through his window blinds we Egyptians dining by the river side , and eating whatever it might be that they had , and lying at random on the ...
Page 865
... once , in a fit of jealousy , he cut off all the hair of the object of his passion . And Polycrates was the first man who called the ships which he had built Samians , in honour of his country . But Clearchus says that " Polycrates ...
... once , in a fit of jealousy , he cut off all the hair of the object of his passion . And Polycrates was the first man who called the ships which he had built Samians , in honour of his country . But Clearchus says that " Polycrates ...
Page 870
... once , at Samos , when he was contending with a very inferior painter in a picture of Ajax , and was defeated , when his friends were sympathising with him and expressing their indignation , he said that he himself cared very little ...
... once , at Samos , when he was contending with a very inferior painter in a picture of Ajax , and was defeated , when his friends were sympathising with him and expressing their indignation , he said that he himself cared very little ...
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