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...ercourse with familiar spirits, invisible beings who must be supposed to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in these ancient memorials of any league of mutual benefit entered into between the merely human party, and his or her supernatural assistant. But modern times have amply supplied this defect. The witch or sorcerer could not secure th...

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...to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in these ancient memorials of any league of mutual benefit entered into betwe... ...ng the antiquity of Witchcraft, we must needs confess that it hath been of very ancient time, because the Scriptures do testify so much, for in the t... ...peror Augustus. Two Arcedian friends, journeying together, arrived at Megara, at which place the one took lodgings at the house of a frien... ...ers of the Middle Ages and biblical times, and many of the magi and wise men of ancient ages, succeeded in curing numbers of diseases, without any m... ... diseases, without any medicine whatever; these men were the true magicians, or ancient physicians, and of the race of Hindoos , Israelites, Jews, A...

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...An enclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology based on Project Gutenberg's edition of Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M.Berens with illustrations from Wikimedia Commons. ...

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...erpretation of their value. In practice they had long sunk into forms. But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and ap... ...n consequence unread,) on the toi- lette and the wardrobe of the ladies of ancient Palestine. Hartmann was a respectable Oriental scholar, and he pub-... ... yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the female, it is pr... ... at the next great masquerade in London, to support the part of one of the ancient daughters of Palestine, and to call back, after eighteen centuries ... ...ly in Egypt. For it happens, that the sub- stance used for this purpose in ancient times, is a powerful remedy in cases of ophthalmia and inflammation... ... (which consisted ‘of red herrings and Gruyere cheese,’) upon the shore of Megara, Mr. Mure beheld the Megarensian lasses mustering in force for a gen... ...ea, without sound of conch; whilst to him the large deputation from female Megara furnished an extra theatre for the inspection of Greek beauty. ‘Ther...

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...afterwards was killed by Theseus. He slew also Sciron, upon the borders of Megara, casting him down from the rocks, being, as most report, a notorious... ... send them down the rock into the sea. The writers of 11 Plutarch’s Lives Megara, however, in contradiction to the received report, and, as Simonides... ...ry in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, were used to send an offering of the first... ...oddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread give... ...Greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined Megara to Attica, and erected that famous pillar on the Isthmus, which bear... ...in, of the party of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), from whom a place in Megara, where he was buried, is called Alycus to this day. And Hereas write... ...ary , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast was anciently called Februata; but its name is equivalent to the Greek Lycaea; ... ... and awe of him; many foreign nations, too, showed respect to Romulus; the Ancient Latins sent, and entered into league and confederacy with him. Fide... ...s so called because the citizens were called Quirites; others, because the ancients called a dart or spear Quiris; thus, the statue of Juno resting on...

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... there was a man, named Diopithes, at Sparta, who had a great knowledge of ancient oracles, and was thought particularly skillful and clever in all po... ...ian expeditions against them. Out of the fore- sight of which it was, that anciently Lycurgus, in three sev- eral laws, forbade them to make many wars... ... send out than you do.” When he brought back his army from Boeotia through Megara, as he was going up to the magistrate’s office in the Acropolis, he ... ...ficient to recover the glory of it, and to raise it to 82 V olume Two its ancient greatness. For as we see in human bodies, long used to a very stric... ...ace. When Epaminondas restored Messene, and recalled from all quarters the ancient citizens to inhabit it, they were not able to obstruct the design, ... ...from Agesilaus; who was slain by Leonidas, while attempting to restore the ancient discipline of Sparta. 89 Plutarch’s Lives POMP POMP POMP POMP POMP... ...th two legions, and that fifteen cohorts more under Calenus were posted at Megara and Athens; he then asked them whether they would stay till these jo... ...nd carried it beyond Eleusis, and procuring fire from over the frontier of Megara, burned it. Phocion’s wife, with her servant-maids, being present an... ...t the Aetolians would attempt to enter Peloponnesus, from the territory of Megara. They had sent Aratus, their general, to collect forces to hinder th...

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...of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tra dition, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different hand... ... comparative inferiority of the Odyssey to the Iliad; and, among a mass of ancient authors, whose very names it would be tedious to detail, no suspici... ...lly put it; and it has been considered incumbent on those who defended the ancient aggregate character of the Iliad and Odyssey, to maintain that they... ... portant ally of the Peloponnesian sovereign: the pre eminent value of the ancient poetry on the T rojan war may thus have forced the national feeling... ...n much more likely to have emanated from an Athenian synod of compilers of ancient song, than an Achilleid or an Odysseid. Could France have given bir... ...ft step the fair Alcmena trod, Who bore Alcides to the thundering god: And Megara, who charm’d the son of Jove, And soften’d his stern soul to tender ...

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...pally treats of the love of books, we have chosen, after the fashion of the ancient Romans, fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon. CHAPTER I... ...s. Furthermore, Aristotle, in his Problems, determines the question, why the ancients proposed prizes to the stronger in gymnastic and corporeal conte... ...sire to know, and since by means of books we can attain the knowledge of the ancients, which is to be desired beyond all riches, what man living accor... ..., and to avoid the danger of impending death he shows the slight sign of the ancient tonsure which we bestowed upon him, begging that we may be called... ...cover ings, not that they have not been given to us, but that the coverings anciently given to us have been torn by violent hands, insomuch that our ... ...tells in the book we have mentioned. For the Athenians, hating the people of Megara, decreed that if any of the Megarensians entered Athens, he should... ...before this decree, disguis ing himself in a woman’s dress, used to go from Megara to Athens by night to hear Socrates, a distance of twenty miles an...

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...y. 3 Flaubert SALAMMBO BY GUSTAVE FLAUBERT CHAPTER I THE FEAST I t was at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar. The soldiers whom... ...ative land. She now, carried away by the memories of Carthage, sang of the ancient battles against Rome; they applauded. She kindled at the gleaming o... ... luminous bar rose towards the East; far below, on the left, the canals of Megara were beginning to stripe the verdure of the gardens with their windi... ...foli- age of the columns, or amid the branches of a palm tree. Some of the Ancients were posted on the platform of the towers, and people did not know... ...im up when at the point of death, and had brought him to the ergastulum of Megara, at Carthage. But, as fugitives were to be given back to the Romans,... ... surprised, Hanno told them that, their accounts being very difficult, the Ancients had not had leisure to examine them. Meanwhile they had sent them ... ...evertheless, since it was his will, choose a husband among the sons of the Ancients, and then your grief will pass away in a man’s arms.” “Why?” asked... ...us dwellings occurred at intervals in the gardens, and this third quarter, Megara, which was the new town, reached as far as the edge of the cliff, wh... ...s. His colleague Gisco, on the other hand, wished them to be paid. But the Ancients detested him owing to his popularity; for they dreaded the risk of...

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...one of the writings of Plato have been more copiously illus trated, both in ancient and modern times, and in none of them have the interpreters been ... ...o favour this opin ion. In answer , it might be sufficient to say , that no ancient writing of equal length and excellence is known to be spurious. N... ...s went through when he first became more inti mately acquainted, whether at Megara or else where, with the Eleatic and Megarian philoso phers. Stil... ...r short of the infinite subtlety of language and thought. But the realism of ancient philosophy will not admit of this answer, which is repelled by Pa... ..., and is due to their illogical logic, and to the general ig norance of the ancients respecting the part played by language in the process of thought... ... raised on themes as sacred to us, as the notions of One or Being were to an ancient Eleatic. ‘If God is, what fol lows? If God is not, what follows?... ...and is not much illustrated by the doubtful tradition of his retire ment to Megara after the death of Socrates. For Megara was within a walk of Athen...

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.... W allace, Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1875, 1880; A. Grant (Ancient Classics for English readers), 1877; T. Davidson, Aristotle and Anc... ...strengthen the bands of soci- ety, seems to have been known to some of the ancients; for Solon made a law, as did some others also, to restrain per- s... ...sfortuue has befallen them. They were 55 Aristotle also to preserve their ancient patrimony, which custom be- ing broken through by the Leucadians, m... ...seful in other sciences. Thus the science of physic is extended beyond its ancient bounds; so is the gymnastic, and indeed all other arts and powers; ... ...ay also be affirmed, that experience itself gives a proof of this; for the ancient laws are too simple and barba- rous; which allowed the Greeks to we... ... places together, as, for in- 92 A Treatise on Government stance, enclose Megara and Corinth in a wall, yet they would not be one city, not even if t... ... in it, according to fortune, family, or virtue, or some other rule (as at Megara, where the right of election was amongst those who had returned toge... ...equence of bad administration, the democracy was de- stroyed; as it was at Megara, where the power of the people was lost through anarchy and disorder... ...he popular state. Just in the same manner the democ- racy was destroyed in Megara; for there the demagogues, to procure money by confiscations, drove ...

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...f of him when we regard his Dialogues merely as literary com positions. Any ancient work which is worth read ing has a practical and speculative as ... .... Few persons will be inclined to suppose, in the superficial manner of some ancient critics, that a dialogue which treats of love must necessarily ha... ...aedrus). It is the in terval which separates Sophists and rhetoricians from ancient famous men and women such as Homer and Hesiod, Anacreon and Sapph... ...nguishing 44 Plato between words and things. It was so hopelessly below the ancient standard of classical Greek art and literature that it had no pow... ...or my part, I do so long to hear his speech, that if you walk all the way to Megara, and when you have reached the wall come back, as Herodicus recomm... ...en better or more exhaustively . SOCRATES: There I cannot go along with you. Ancient sages, men and women, who have spo ken and written of these thin...

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... Socrates (Mem.), the ‘madman’ Apollodorus (Symp.), Euclid and Terpsion from Megara (compare Theaet.), Ctesippus, Antisthenes, Menexenus, and some oth... ...ing the relations of body and mind, and in this we have the advantage of the ancients. But no one imagines that any seed of immortality is to be disce... ...ence the comparative silence on the whole subject which is often remarked in ancient writers, and particularly in Aristotle. For Plato and Aristotle a... ...octrine of ideas. In the Meno the theory 36 Phaedo of ideas is based on the ancient belief in transmigration, which reappears again in the Phaedrus a... ...d upon in the Republic as well as in the Phaedo, and is common to modern and ancient philosophy. Plato is not altogether satisfied with his safe and s... ...some of the deepest truths of philosophy. There is nothing in any trag edy, ancient or modern, nothing in poetry or history (with one exception), lik... ...as the Theban, and Cebes, and Phaedondes; Euclid and Terpison, who came from Megara. ECHECRATES: And was Aristippus there, and Cleombrotus? PHAEDO: No... ...o think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by t...

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...eans to imply that he is making a closer approach to the schools of Elea and Megara. He had much in common with them, but he must first submit their i... ...osopher in the Theaetetus. The following are characteristic pas sages: ‘The ancient philosophers, of whom we 6 Sophist – Plato may say , without off... ...about ‘Not being’ appears to us to be one of the most unreal difficulties of ancient philosophy. We cannot understand the attitude of mind which could... ...le structure, and may be compared to rocks which project or overhang in some ancient city’s walls. There are many such imperfect syncre tisms or ecle... ... the Platonic and Hegelian dialectic. The unity of opposites was the crux of ancient thinkers in the age of Plato: How could one thing 41 Sophist – P... ...in separating the germ from the flower, or in drawing the line which divides ancient from modern philosophy. Many coinci dences which occur in them a...

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... from his rivals, we must view him, (2) as he is presented to us in a famous ancient tale: the tale will also enable us to distinguish the divine from... ...of a former state of the world, a sort of mephitic vapour exhaling from some ancient chaos,—there, as involved in the possibility of good, and inciden... ...is touched with a feeling of the ills which afflict states. The condition of Megara before and during the Peloponnesian W ar , of Athens under the Thi... ..., and made incidentally many valuable remarks. Questions of interest both in ancient and modern politics also arise in the course of the dialogue, whi... ...deal of the Greek state found an expression in the deifica- tion of law: the ancient Stoic spoke of a wise man perfect in virtue, who was fancifully s... ...ment has greater power and stability when resting on a wider basis.’ Both in ancient and modern times the best balanced form of government has been he...

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...ly real. The imaginary ones are (1) Chronological,—which were pointed out in ancient times by Athenaeus, and are noticed by Schleiermacher and others,... ...s. Now the art of the Sophist is, as I believe, of great antiq uity; but in ancient times those who practised it, fearing this odium, veiled and disg... ... or the more recently celebrated Herodicus, now of Selymbria and formerly of Megara, who is a first rate Sophist. Y our own Agathocles pretended to b... ... are contained many admonitions, and many tales, and praises, and encomia of ancient famous men, which he is required to learn by heart, in order that... ...6 a wisdom, Protagoras, which, as I imagine, is more than human and of very ancient date, and may be as old as Simonides or even older. Learned as yo... ...r to explain to you my opinion about this poem of Simonides. There is a very ancient philosophy which is more cultivated in Crete and Lacedaemon than ...

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...cise their spite in human woe? Against the Tiber’s mouth, but far away, An ancient town was seated on the sea; A T yrian colony; the people made Stout... ...’n were kind, The seat of awful empire she design’d. Y et she had heard an ancient rumor fly, (Long cited by the people of the sky,) That times to com... ... of woes if I should run, The day would sooner than the tale be done! From ancient Troy, by force expell’d, we came If you by chance have heard the T... ... saw. The goblet goes around: Iopas brought His golden lyre, and sung what ancient Atlas taught: The various labors of the wand’ring moon, And whence ... ...ought me, from their blest abodes, The venerable statues of the gods, With ancient V esta from the sacred choir, The wreaths and relics of th’ immorta... ... Pantagias flows. His rocky mouth we pass, and make our way By Thapsus and Megara’s winding bay. This passage Achaemenides had shown, Tracing the cour...

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...in sections. a) After the pre- lude, which Pausanias failed to find in the ancient copy en- graved on lead seen by him on Mt. Helicon, comes a general... ... regarded as either devotional or liturgical. The Hymn is doubtless a very ancient form; but if no example of extreme antiquity survive this must be p... ...ocuments such as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, or are quoted by various ancient authors. These poetic fragments clearly antedate the Life itself, w... ...of course, mere romance; its only val- ues are 1) the insight it give into ancient speculations about Homer; 2) a certain amount of definite informati... ...Fragment #61 — Eustathius, Hom. 112. 44 sq: It should be observed that the ancient narrative hands down the account that Patroclus was even a kinsman ... ...nd in the island of Aegina and in Mases, sons of the Achaeans, and shadowy Megara and frowning Corinthus, and Hermione and Asine which lie along the s... ...g love for Aegle the daughter of Panopeus overpowered him.’ For Hereas of Megara says that Peisistratus removed this verse from the works of Hesiod. ...

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...alogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever attained. Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among th... ...hysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences ... ... Hellas in greatness!” or, more probably, attributing the vic tory to the ancient good order of Athens and to the favor of Apollo and Athene. Again, ... ...e, and over man. Too much, however, has been made of this question both in ancient and in modern times. There is a stage of criticism in which all wo... ...ich all works, whether of nature or of art, are referred to design. Now in ancient writings, and indeed in literature generally, there remains often a... ... a soldier, and, like Adeimantus, has been distinguished at the battle of Megara. The character of Adeimantus is deeper and graver, and the profounde... ...e in honour of you after you had distinguished yourselves at the battle of Megara:— ‘Sons of Ariston, ’ he sang, ‘divine offspring of an ...