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...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip... ... a more authenticall testimonie of humane imbecilitie, it is noted by our Ancients that Diodorus the Logician, being surprised with an extreme passi... ...ing by shooting of arrowes to draw God to some reason. Now, as saith that ancient Poet in Plutarch, Point ne se faut corroucer aux affaires, Il ne ... ...as Afer verie plainly declareth in Cornelius Tacitus. The Ambassadours of SamosCleomenes King of Sparta, prepared with a long prolix Oration, to sti... ...and our paine. And ridiculous was that humor of Polycrates, the Tyrant of Samos, who, to interrupt the course of his continuall happinesse, and to r...

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... an educator, his rank is high. He took the broader view that the study of ancient languages should have as its purpose the enlarge- ment of the stude... ...a language, and held to the rather questionable doctrine that the study of ancient Greek should be approached through modern Romaic. He adopted a tuto... ...es, interest in the subject being revived after the lOfh century A. D. The ancients wore entirely igno- rant of the soionce of bacliteriolo- gy, thoug... ... ath- letics of this country with the simpler organizations in England and ancient Greece. He favored a return to the old-tiuie spirit of sport. Whitt... ...t the in- vitations this year were not in the form of a summary demand but ANCIENT SELF-DEFENSE oouohed in diplomatio terms, bnt this (lid not detract... ...in 1870, but later abandoned by them, is small, but large in history lore. Samos, the island near Asia Minor, was next visited, inter- esting with its...

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...rcised human curiosity from a very early period; and in all the records of ancient civilizations there is evidence of some preoccupation with arithmet... ... K. Prachar 3.17, 4.10 M. Pr evost 5.6 Ptolemy Claudius 1.8 Pythagoras of Samos 1.9, 1.10, 1.11 R H. Rademacher 4.6 S. Ramanujan 3.19, 3.21 B. Rieman...

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...e para recriações de outros escritores ao longo dos séculos, como Fedro e La Fontaine. O local de seu nascimento é incerto — Trácia, Frígia, Etiópia, Samos, e Sardes todas clamam a honra. Eventualmente morreu em Delfos. Na verdade, todos os dados referentes a Esopo são discutíveis e trata-se mais de um personagem lendário do que histórico. A única certeza é que as fábulas ...

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...ng as he made thee swear. 7 So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao’s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8 And ... ...nd this is my memorial unto all generations. 16 Go and gather together the ancients of Is- rael, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fath... ... he had commanded. 29 And they came together, and they assem- bled all the ancients of the children of Israel. 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which ... ...ur habitations you shall eat unleavened bread. 21 And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by you... ...nd the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Is- rael: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst str... ...e day following we came over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos; and the day following we came to Miletus. 16 For Paul had determined...

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......................................................... 381 CHAPTER XLIX OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS .............................................................. ..................................... 400 CHAPTER LII OF THE PARSIMONY OF THE ANCIENTS...................................................................... ...rent from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with un... ...eserva- tion; and that the buildings of this bastard Rome, raised upon the ancient productions, although they might excite the ad- miration of the pre... ...n simply out of the ruins of the theatre of Marcellus. He believed that an ancient Roman would not recognise the place again. It often happened that i... ...diet, as Aper very evidently demonstrates in T acitus.” The ambassadors of Samos, prepared with a long and elegant oration, came to Cleomenes, king of...

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...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... ...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... ...tesimbrotus tells us, that, in his encomium on those who fell in battle at Samos, he said they were become immortal, as the gods were. “For,” said he,... ... years, he ordered, by public de- cree, the expedition against the Isle of Samos, on the ground, that, when they were bid to leave off their war with ... ...ore, fitting out a fleet, went and broke up the oligarchical government at Samos, and, taking fifty of the principal men of the town as hostages, and ... ...ssus, the son of Ithagenes, a philosopher, be- ing at that time general in Samos, despising either the small number of the ships that were left or the...

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... of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tradi- tion, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different hand... ...mprovisation of Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodocus and Phemius.”— Ancient Greece, p. 94.] But poverty soon drove him to Cumæ. Having passed o... ... aside the fact that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew ne... ...had hitherto made no mention,[Note: Vit. Hom. Section 28.] he sent out for Samos. Here being recognized by a Samian, who had met with him in Chios, he... ...ential points, must have remained the secret of the poet.” [Note: Heeren’s Ancient Greece, p. 96.] From this criticism, which shows as much insight in... ...ælio, oo dixa tæs sphodrotætos paramenei to megethos] and, among a mass of ancient authors, whose very names [Note: See Tatian, quoted in Fabric. Bibl... ...ace of ocean sweeps, Refulgent gliding o’er the sable deeps. Between where Samos wide his forests spreads, And rocky Imbrus lifts its pointed heads, D...

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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... ...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... ...d at Calauria; those of Apollo at Actium and Leucas, and those of Juno, in Samos, at Argos, and at Lacinium. They themselves offered strange sacrifice... ...ctation of divinity, except it were once in writing to the Athenians about Samos, when he tells them that he should not himself have bestowed upon the... ...mother. Though, in fact, he did not marry her, for his wife was a woman of Samos, as Demetrius, the Magnesian, writes, in his book on Persons of the s... .... Among the rest, he besieged Antiochus, king of Commagene, in the city of Samosata, who made an offer of a thousand talents for his pardon, and a pro...

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...of her own hospitality. Jupiter, Neptune, Minerva, and Momus ACCORDING to an ancient legend, the first man was made by Jupiter, the first bull by Nept... ...an is known by the company he keeps. The Two Bags EVERY MAN, according to an ancient legend, is born into the world with two bags suspended from his n... ...d you with enjoyment.” The Lark Burying Her Father THE LARK (according to an ancient legend) was created before the earth itself, and when her father ... ...Fables The Trees Under the Protection of the Gods THE GODS, according to an ancient legend, made choice of certain trees to be under their special pr... ...st famous of Greek poets, in much obscu rity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotia... ...u rity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotiaeum, the chief city of a province of P... ...rth a slave. He was owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his lib erty as a... ... spoken by Aesop for the immediate purpose of reconciling the inhabitants of Samos and Athens to their respective rulers, Periander and Pisistratus; w...

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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... ...e Athenians, of whose city he had hitherto made no mention, he set out for Samos. Here, being recognized by a Samian, who had met with him 10 The Ody... ... 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... ...een with amorous wiles Resort the nobles from the neighbouring isles; From Samos, circled with the Ionian main, Dulichium, and Zacynthas’ sylvan reign... ...ngs of a power divine; For thee their snares the suitor lords shall lay In Samos’ sands, or straits of Ithaca; 211 Pope To seize thy life shall lurk ... ...ftly stealing pace of time Crept on from childhood into youthful prime, To Samos’ isle she sent the wedded fair; Me to the fields; to tend the rural c...

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... precious things put forth by the moon, 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, 16 And... ...ourses fought against Sisera. 21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength... ...thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be... ...esieged places. 25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that th... ... and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And these are ancient things. 23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plant... ...and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we ar- rived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus. 16 F...

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... throne; but Hera saw, and was not igno rant how that the daughter of the Ancient of the sea, Thetis the silver footed, had devised counsel with him.... ...raid lest thou have been won over by silver footed Thetis, daughter of the Ancient of the sea, for she at early morn sat by thee and clasped thy knees... ...a and rugged Aigilips, and them that possessed Zakynthos and that dwelt in Samos, and possessed the mainland and dwelt in the parts over against the i... ...of Atreus followed on, crying eagerly to the Danaans. And past the tomb of ancient Ilos, son of Dardanos, across the mid plain, past the place of the ... ...ned Earth shaker held no vain watch, but went with them in the guise of an ancient man, and he seized the right hand of Agamemnon, Atreus’ son, and ut... ...nd Zeus, the Lord of counsel, thundered loudly, hearing the prayers of the ancient son of Neleus. But the T rojans when they heard the thunder of aegi... ...m he took captive would fleet Achilles sell beyond the unvintaged sea unto Samos and Imbros and smoking Lemnos, but when with keen edged bronze he had...

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...’—kissed’— ’ dressed’ (5 53). Shelley may have first seen the word in “The Ancient Mariner”; but he employs it more correctly than Coleridge, who seem... ... their thin shadows down the rugged slope, And nought but gnarled roots of ancient pines* _530 Branchless and blasted, clenched... ...ated thresholds. I have conversed with living men of genius. The poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, and mod- ern Italy, and our own country, has been ... ...ed. Thus, the tragic poets of the age of Pericles; the Italian revivers of ancient learning; those mighty intellects of our own country that succeeded... ... went In silence, where, to soothe his rankling mind, Some likeness of his ancient state was lent; And if his heart could have been innocent As those ... ...hirlwind, wait at Scala _285 The convoy of the ever-veering wind. Samos is drunk with blood;—the Greek has paid Brief victory with swift loss...

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... series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, noted American astronomer and scientist Carl Sagan speculated and stated, “What if the scientific tradition of the ancient Ionian Greeks had prospered and flourished? . . . I think we might have saved ten or twenty centuries.” And in episode 1 of that same series, Sagan said, concerning the burning down of the Great Library of Alexandria:...

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... “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street. The ancients could not endure that a “poet should build an house, but this varl... ...With spurning heels, and with a butting head: To White’s be carried, as to ancient games, Fair coursers, vases, and alluring dames. ... ...queen control, Since still the lust of discord fires thy soul, Go, raze my Samos, let Mycene fall, And level with the dust the Spartan wall; No more l... ... in length of wishes lost. The hero then resolves his course to bend Where ancient Danaus’ fruitful fields extend; And famed Mycene’s lofty towers asc... ...ls a deluge on; The foaming Lerna swells above its bounds, And spreads its ancient poisons o’er the grounds: Where late was dust, now rapid torrents p... ...solemn feasts propitious Phoebus please; These honours, still renew’d, his ancient wrath appease. ‘But say, illustrious guest, (adjoin’d the king) ...

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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... ... same thing; and also the Zancleans, after hav- ing taken in the people of Samos. The Appolloniats, in the Euxine Sea, having admitted their sojourner... ...upiter Olympus, built by the Pisistratidae, and the works of Polycrates at Samos; for all these produced one end, the keeping the people poor. It is n...

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...cy furnished by literature as well as by the popular taste. Was it not the Ancients that began it? Aristophanes, Catullus, Petronius, Martial, flew in... ...ent that Rabelais only collected popular tra- ditions and gave new life to ancient legends is said to be proved by the large number of megalithic monu... ...larity of his novel. No one has ever yet produced a written passage or any ancient testimony to prove the existence of the name before Rabelais. To pl... ...idoted Fanfreluches: or, a Galimatia of extrava- gant Conceits found in an ancient Monument. No sooner did the Cymbrians’ overcomer Pass through the a... ...d of the monsters and tyrants wherewith it was suppressed. My masters, the ancient Pantagruelists, have confirmed that which I say, and withal declare... ...ho hav- ing forgot the art and manner of writing histories set down by the Samosatian philosopher, maketh a most tediously long narrative and relation... ...writes that he was of Thrace and Agathias, after Herodotus, that he was of Samos; ’tis all one to Frank. In his time lived a poor honest country fello... ...another feast as was that of the Lapithae, described by the philosopher of Samosata. One of the bums had lost his tongue. The other two, tho’ they had... ...them with a beechen bough. Since also Euphorion writes that in the isle of Samos, before Juno’s temple was built there, he has seen some beasts called...

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... , not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme ... ...s, that it rather is to be esteemed an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem fromt he troublesome and modern ... ...astly of a new world and new kind of creature to be created, according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven; for that angels were long before th... ... that angels were long before this visible creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers. To find out the tgruth of this prophecy, and what to det... ...IAN, or EARTH BORN, that warr’d on JOVE, BRIARIOS or TYPHON, whom the Den By ancient TARSUS held, or that Sea beast LEVIATHAN, which God of all his wo... ...nd Lands and Regions in the Moon: Or Pilot from amidst the CYCLADES DELOS or SAMOS first appeering kenns A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight ...

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...think that it lies in the construction, though Fielding’s following of the ancients, both sincere and satiric, has imposed a false air of regularity u... ...when he asserts, There is no such thing to be found in the writings of the ancients. But perhaps I have less abhorrence than he professes for it; and ... ...he country they call keeping birds. His office was to perform the part the ancients assigned to the god Priapus, which deity the moderns call by the n... ...at that part of the ravisher’s head where, according to the opinion of the ancients, the brains of some persons are deposited, and which he had undoub... ...some modern heroes of the lower class use, like the batter- ing-ram of the ancients, for a weapon of offence; another reason to admire the cunningness... ...es on each side to per- mit his passage, and then seating himself on Mount Samos; the heavens opened, and the deities all seated on their thrones. Thi...

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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... ...ho’ born On Latian plains, yet sought the Phrygian shore, And Samothracia, Samos call’d before. From Tuscan Coritum he claim’d his birth; But after, w...

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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 ... ...near the sea, in Thracian Athos and Pelion’s towering heights and Thracian Samos and the shady hills of Ida, in Scyros and Phocaea and the high hill o... ...of Corycus and gleaming Claros and the sheer hill of Aesagea and wa- tered Samos and the steep heights of Mycale, in Miletus and Cos, the city of Mero... ...en on this subject, as that historian shows who relates that Creophylus of Samos once had Homer for his guest and for a reward received the attributio...

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...he front Of battle pitiless Achilles storms.” Then spake Laomedon’s son, the ancient king: “Nay, friend, and all ye other sons of T roy, And ye our st... ...ong ago Hector had hearkened to my pleading, when I fain had kept him in the ancient home!” So spake Polydamas the noble and strong, And all the liste... ... for he reverenced in his heart The white hairs of an age mate of his sire: “Ancient,” he cried, “it were my shame to fight. With one so much mine eld... ...lain, for sons, For noble kinsmen. Most of all shall joy My father, and the ancient men, whose feet Unwillingly are chained within the walls By eld, ... ...perfect happiness to hapless men.” So he in grief lamented Peleus’ son. Then ancient Phoenix made heart stricken moan, Clasping the noble form of Aeac... ... Beheld it, far as Ida’s mountain crests, And sea girt Tenedos, and Thracian Samos. And men that voyaged on the deep sea cried: “The Argives have achi...

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... or EARTH-BORN, that warr’d on JOVE, BRIARIOS or TYPHON, whom the Den By ancient TARSUS held, or that Sea-beast 200 LEVIATHAN, which God of all h... ...is Herarchie, the Orders bright. Nor was his name unheard or unador’d In ancient Greece; and in AUSONIAN land Men call’d him MULCIBER; and how h... ...he Deep. What if we find Some easier enterprize? There is a place 345 (If ancient and prophetic fame in Heav’n Err not) another World, the happy ... ...the lowest deep Will once more lift us up, in spight of Fate, Neerer our ancient Seat; perhaps in view Of those bright confines, whence with nei... ...il, which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems 590 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that SERBO... ...ands and Regions in the Moon: Or Pilot from amidst the CYCLADES DELOS or SAMOS first appeering kenns 265 A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in fli...