Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, ed. by W. Smith, Volum 1Walton and Maberly, 1861 |
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Ed. by W. Smith Greek And Roman Biography Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2013 |
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Side 324 - beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century the history of Aristotelian literature is a perfect blank.
Side 19 - Aedesius fearing the real or fancied hostility of the Christian emperor Constantine to philosophy, took refuge in divination. An oracle in hexameter verse represented a pastoral life as his only retreat, but his disciples, perhaps calming hip fears by a metaphorical interpretation, compelled him to resume his instructions.
Side 77 - Burras and Seneca, recalled by Agrippina from his exile to conduct the education of Nero. Meanwhile, the young emperor took some steps to shake off the insupportable ascendency of his mother. The jealousy of Agrippina rose from her son's passion for Acte, and, after her, for Poppaea Sabina, the wife of M.
Side 108 - At last, at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century...
Side 203 - ... of justice and the popular assembly lay beyond its sphere. Antiphon perceived this deficiency, and formed a higher and more practical view of the art to which he devoted himself; that is, he wished to produce conviction in the minds of the hearers by means of a thorough examination of the subjects proposed, and this not with a view to the narrow limits of the school, but to the courts and the assembly.
Side 233 - The acuteness of his taste led him to discover that, as all men were connected by one general form, so they were separated, each by some predominant power, which fixed character and bound them to a class : that in proportion as this specific power partook of individual peculiarities, the farther it was removed from a share in that harmonious system which constitutes nature and consists in a due balance of all its parts.
Side 69 - Leonidas immediately came with a band of mercenaries and secured the prison without, while the ephors entered it, and went through the mockery of a trial. When asked if he did not repent of what he had attempted, Agis replied, that he should never repent of so glorious a design, even in the face of death. He was condemned, and precipitately executed, the ephora fearing a rescue, as a great concourse of people had assembled round the prison gates.