 | 1850 - 498 sider
...cause desperation. f A similar story is related of Hegesias, whose gloomy descriptions of human misery were so overpowering, that they drove many persons to commit suicide, in consequence of which he received the surname of Peisithanatos. In the city of Wesali there was a priest, who one day, on... | |
 | 1851 - 590 sider
...will remind the classic reader of the story of Hegesias, whose gloomy descriptions of human misery were so overpowering, that they drove many persons to commit suicide, in consequence of which he received the surname of Peisi-thanatos. In the city of Wesali, there was a priest, who, one day,... | |
 | 1851 - 580 sider
...will remind the classic reader of the story of Hegesias, whose gloomy descriptions of human misery were so overpowering, that they drove many persons to commit suicide, in consequence of which he received the surname of Peisi-thanatos. In the city of Wesali, there was a priest, who, one day,... | |
 | Egidio Forcellini - 1854 - 1240 sider
...than that of Cicero {Тик. i. 34), who tel U us that Hegesias wrote a book called аяокарTfpwr, in which a man who has resolved to starve himself...suicide, in consequence of which the author received the súmame of Pcisithanatos. This book was published at Alexandria, where he was, in consequence, forbidden... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1858 - 372 sider
...seek it as soon as possible. According to Cicero, from whom we get this account (Tuse. Disp., i., 34), the gloomy descriptions of human misery which this...persons to commit suicide ; in consequence of which he was forbidden by King Ptolemy to teach in Alexandrea, where his book had been published. (Compare... | |
 | Robert Spence Hardy - 1860 - 478 sider
...cause desperation. f A similar story is related of Hegesias, whose gloomy descriptions of human misery were so overpowering,' that they drove many persons to commit suicide, in consequence of which he received the surname of Peisithanatos. In the city of Wesali there was a priest, who one day, on... | |
 | Robert Spence Hardy - 1860 - 506 sider
...cause desperation.f A similar story is related of Hegesias, whose gloomy descriptions of human misery were so overpowering, that they drove many persons to commit suicide, in consequence of which he received the surname of Peisithanatos. In the city of Wesali there was a priest, who one day, on... | |
 | Greek and Roman biography - 1861 - 1246 sider
...strong than that of Cicero (Tutc. i. 34), who tells us that Hcgesias wrote a book called dwoitapTffiiur, in which a man who has resolved to starve himself...thinks that he was contemporaneous with Epicurus. (firxAidite der Phitotophie, viii. 1, 3; see also Val. Max. viii. ».) [GELC] HEGE'SIAS ('Hrpriat)... | |
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A similar story is related of Hegesias, whose gloomy descriptions of human misery were so overpowering, that they drove many persons to commit suicide, in consequence of which he received the surname of Peisithanatos. In the city of Wesali there was a... 