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...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS ... ...nity university. 3 Aristotle A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. LONDON &.TORONTO PUBLISHED BY J M... ...ome respects a critical history of the workings of the institutions of the Greek city state. In Books IV ., V ., and VI. the ideal state seems far aw... ...reatise on Government not true of the much smaller and more self-conscious Greek city. When Aristotle talks of the legislator, he is not talking in th... ... different; as in music the same hands produce different har- mony, as the Doric and Phrygian. If this is true, it is evident, that when we speak of a... ...in music, according to some, who say there are only two species of it, the Doric and the Phrygian, and all other species of composition they call afte... ...heart: others fix it in a firm and settled state, such is the power of the Doric music only; while the Phrygian fills the soul with enthusiasm, as has... ...t in education ethic melody and ethic harmony should be used, which is the Doric, as we have already said, or any other which those philosophers who a... ... when he [1342b] permits only the Phrygian music to be used as well as the Doric, 250 A Treatise on Government particularly as amongst other instrume...

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...s [Note: I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poet... ... as must be indispensably sup- posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...pe wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun- ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...al. “At what period,” continues Grote, “these poems, or in- deed any other Greek poems, first began to be written, must be matter of conjecture, thoug... ... brings to our view the alterations brought about by two centuries, in the Greek language, the coined money, the habits of writing and reading, the de... ...norous fluency. With this he mingled the Attic con- tractions, the broader Doric, and the feebler Æolic, which often rejects its aspirate, or takes of...

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...cus, they say, was ever esteemed a man of the greatest sanctity of all the Greeks; and Cychreus, the Salaminian, was honored at Athens with divine wor... ...ow husbandry; and from this coin came the expression so frequent among the Greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined ... ...nstituted the games, in emulation of Hercules, being ambitious that as the Greeks, by that hero’s appoint- ment, celebrated the Olympian games to the ... ...ons nor fortunate in their events, which yet were never represented in the Greek plays. For he is said to have carried off Anaxo, a T roezenian, and, ... ...r of vouchers was first published, in its chief particu- lars, amongst the Greeks by Diocles of Peparethus, whom Fabius Pictor also follows in most po... ... Lycurgus built a temple to Minerva, surnamed Optiletis; optilus being the Doric of these 79 Plutarch’s Lives parts for ophthalmus, the eye. Some aut... ...“What,” says he, “may this mean, O Philopoemen?” “I am,” replied he in his Doric dialect, “paying the penalty of my ugly looks.” Titus Flamininus, jes...

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...about our keel were enjoying an anerithmon gelasma (this is one of my four Greek quotations:depend on it I will manage to introduce the other three be... ...ree before the tour is done)—seemed to be enjoying, I say, the above-named Greek quotation at our expense. Here is the dismal log of Wednesday, 4th of... ...ed with it is disagreeable in my eyes; and I have the same recollection of Greek in youth that I have of castor-oil. So in coming in sight of the prom... ...f castor-oil. So in coming in sight of the promontory of Sunium, where the Greek Muse, in an awful vision, came to me, and said in a patronising way, ... ...raeus, the heathery heights of Pentelicus, and yonder rocks crowned by the Doric col- umns of the Parthenon, and the thin Ionic shafts of the Erechthe... ...s side to convey us travellers to shore. There were Russian schooners and Greek brigs lying in this little bay; dumpy little windmills whirling round... ...of which some scores of tombs are rudely carved; pillars and porticos, and Doric entablatures. But it is of the little theatre that he must make the m... ...have no ear for aught beside. Y onder, in the mountain, they would carve a Doric cave temple, to receive your urn when all was done; and you would be ...

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...s much may give us light after what sort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. The Romans also, for many ages trained up only to a militar... ...aul, who were skilful in all the learning of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Greeks, which could not probably be without reading their books of all s... ...ught it no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets, and one of them a tragedian; the question was notwithstan... ...o man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion, or dep...

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...a banished man and a stranger at the head of a body of barbar- ians. Among Greek commanders, Eumenes of Cardia may be best compared with him; they wer... ...e greatest part of the Libyan tribes under his subjection, with an army of Greeks, raised out of the colonies of the Olbians and Myceneans placed here... .... 35 Plutarch’s Lives But when Craterus and Antipater, having subdued the Greeks, advanced into Asia, with intentions to quell the power of Perdiccas... ...ne had made versatile, he at last put his men in array, and encouraged the Greeks and barbarians; as for the phalanx and the Argyraspids, they encoura... ... man of them might ever come to Macedon, or so much as within sight of the Greek sea. 50 V olume Two COMP COMP COMP COMP COMPARISON OF SER ARISON OF ... ...ntry, as it were, from a disor- dered harmony, and retuned it to the plain Doric measure and rule of life of Lycurgus, should be styled head of the T ... ...The city of Sicyon, from the time that it first fell off from the pure and Doric aristocracy (its harmony being destroyed, and a mere series of sediti...

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...ume. 231 Shelley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their na... ...: Dante indeed more than any other poet, and with greater success. But the Greek poets, as writers to whom no resource of awakening the sympathy of th... ...race remains among his papers. The third was the “Prometheus Unbound”. The Greek tragedians were now his most familiar companions in his wanderings, a... ...ime majesty of Aeschylus filled him with wonder and delight. The father of Greek tragedy does not possess the pathos of Sophocles, nor the variety and... ... of creation—such as we know them, instead of such as they appeared to the Greeks. Maternal Earth, the mighty parent, is superseded by the Spirit of t... ...ANSLA A A A ATED FR TED FR TED FR TED FR TED FROM OM OM OM OM THE ORIGINAL DORIC. THE ORIGINAL DORIC. THE ORIGINAL DORIC. THE ORIGINAL DORIC. THE ORIG... .... THE ORIGINAL DORIC. THE ORIGINAL DORIC. THE ORIGINAL DORIC. THE ORIGINAL DORIC. ‘Choose Reform or Civil War, When through thy streets, instead of ha...

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... stay puzzling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances he... ...to boast, Though I acquired — but I pass over that, As well as all the Greek I since have lost: I say that there ‘s the place — but ‘Verbum ... ...e and there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And... ... It is as well to think so, now and then; ‘T was an old custom of the Greek and Roman, And may become of great advantage when Folks are d... ...hat Turkish trade, By which, no doubt, a good deal may be made. He was a Greek, and on his isle had built (One of the wild and smaller Cyclade... ...nd Parga’s shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, ...

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...er addressed him except in the language of Virgil and Cicero. The study of Greek took precedence. At six years of age young Montaigne went to the Coll... ... really formidable? Or perhaps he was of the same way of thinking with the Greek poet, of whom Cicero reports this saying: “I do not desire to die; bu... ..., “Surely not; water is the best.” “Ah, yes,” he returned, “doubtless so;—(Greek phrase)—.” He had now become, icy- cold at his extremities, even to h... ...end them when he was dead. In truth, in affairs of the same nature, by the Greek laws, he who made suit to an en- emy for a body to give it burial ren... ...e Arginusian Isles, the most bloody and obstinate engagement that ever the Greeks fought at sea; because (af- ter the victory) they followed up the bl... ...ast words of pilasters, ar- chitraves, and cornices, of the Corinthian and Doric orders, and suchlike jargon, my imagination is presently possessed wi...

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...portioned to its breadth? 76 Sartor Resartus We find, moreover, that his Greek and Latin were “me- chanically” taught; Hebrew scarce even mechanical... ...is not mad? Nevertheless, one may still murmur audibly, or in the original Greek if that suit thee better: ‘Whoso can look on Death will start at no s... ...as trifling.” Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh How could it else? Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of Man is an Action, and not ... ...to in all other lands; still as of old, ‘what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!’—In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is ... ...that thou canst trample the Earth with its injuries under thy feet, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the Earth while it injures thee, a... ... Sartor Resartus frightful green-mantled pools); and shape themselves into Doric and Ionic pillars, squared ashlar houses and noble streets? Was it no...

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...the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Tw... ...but only seem to be such, they have a wonderful variety in them, which the Greek was a stranger to. He exceeds him in regularity and brevity, and fall... ...ll the care he has taken, he is certainly inferior in his dialect: for the Doric had its beauty and propriety in the time of Theocritus; it was used i... ...ling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the world’s victor s... ...rs seem to think in stone. Westward, a sumptuous frontispiece appear’d, On Doric pillars of white marble rear’d, Crown’d with an architrave of antique... ...leon:’ The name taken from a foolish poet of Rhodes, who pretended much to Greek.—P . 203 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Keep clo... ... but mature the praise: Great friend of liberty! in kings a name Above all Greek, above all Roman fame: Whose word is truth, as sacred and revered, As...

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...on of a mine of results. … Taylor led him into political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities, Roman roads, old castles, the or... ...—leading right across the bottomless gulf. Under this eminent man, whom in Greek I cognominated Cyclops Diphrélates (Cy- clops the Charioteer), I, and... ...- 42 11 THE WHOLE PAGAN PANTHEON: i.e. all the gods put together; from the Greek Pantheion, a temple dedi- cated to all the gods. 43 2 SEVEN ATMOSPHER... ...e, with its tall and graceful column, differ- ing from the severity of the Doric on the one hand and from the floridity of the Corinthian on the other... ... Cf. the following version of the old story of the origin of the styles of Greek architecture in Vitruvius, IV , Chap. I (Gwilt’s translation), quote... ...height six times the thickness of the shaft measured at the base. Thus the Doric order ob- tained its proportion, its strength, and its beauty from th... ...g a more slender proportion, assigned seven diameters to the height of the Doric column, and eight and 107 Thomas De Quincey a half to the Ionic.” 55...

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...a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas? When the Greeks made their fine saying that 77 Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers ... ... Scotch bench to employ the pure Scotch idiom. His opinions, thus given in Doric, and con- ceived in a lively, rugged, conversational style, were full... ...do all our fiddling, and hold domestic tea-parties at the arbour door. The Greeks figured Pan, the god of Nature, now terribly stamping his foot, so t... ...lling on his pipe until he charmed the hearts of upland ploughmen. And the Greeks, in so figuring, uttered the last word of human ex- perience. To cer... ...at measured inter- vals, knocking another luminous hole into the dusk. The Greeks would have made a noble myth of such an one; how he distributed star...

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...m Richard. Richard fixed his eyes on the floor, while the Bantam in rudest Doric commenced his narrative. Knowing what was to come, and thoroughly ner... ...cidedly collared by Blaize. What were his words, Ricky? Give it in his own Doric.” “He said he would transport Tom Bakewell.” Adrian smoothed his palm... ...dition! I think we have in this country what will match the Italian or the Greek.” His mind flutters to Mrs. Doria, Richard blushes before the vision ... ...ou know.” “And the marriage is valid?” “You can dispute it.” “Yes, and the Greeks and the Trojans can fight. It holds then?” “Both water and fire!” Th... ...n,” said Ri- chard under his breath to Adrian, who was serenely chant- ing Greek hexameters, and answered, in the swing of the caesura, “He might as w... ...n enjoyed himself? How likes he the society of Aspasia? I feel like a wise Greek to-night.” Adrian was jolly, and rolled comfortably as he talked. Rip...

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...l was not fit for the stage, but it has its admirers in those who love the Doric language in which it is written; and it is not without merits of a ve... ...on Elspat MacTavish, or the Woman of the T ree, as they called her, as the Greeks considered those who were pursued by the Furies, and endured the men...

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...s the Patent-office. This also is a grand building, with a fine portico of Doric pillars at each of its three fronts. These are approached by flights ... ... of George III. The effect produced by a dozen such at the back of a noble Doric porch, looking down among the pillars, may be imagined. In the interi... ...ghts is picturesque, but nei- ther large nor good. It has before it a high Greek colon- nade, which seems to be almost bigger than the house itself. H...

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...se who are willing to suf- fer hunger and thirst in exchange for acquiring Greek and Latin. But there is a far more exact prototype of the worthy Domi... ...he had already attained that honourable title) descend the stairs from the Greek class, with his Lexicon under his 28 Guy Mannering arm, his long mis... ... fire. Under all these disadvantages, he obtained a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin, and some acquaintance with the sciences. In progress of ti... ...rtram; he has got a pupil who pays him two guineas for twelve les- sons of Greek and Latin.” “Indeed!—I am equally happy and surprised—who can be so l... ... while away!” 166 Guy Mannering CHAPTER XXIV. Liddell till now, except in Doric lays, T uned to her murmurs by her love-sick swains, Unknown in song—... ...he has only, I believe, to thank her own good sense or obstinacy, that the Greek, Latin (and Hebrew, for aught I know), were not added to 201 Sir Wal...

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.............. 56 FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION. .............................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. .................................................................................................................... 58 PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR .................................................................

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................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. ............................................................ ...ER O MER O MER O MER O MERCUR CUR CUR CUR CURY Y Y Y Y Translated from the Greek of Homer Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824. This al... ...—T 1.—T 1.—TO STELL O STELL O STELL O STELL O STELLA. A. A. A. A. From the Greek of Plato. Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair l... ... HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. From the Greek of Plato. Kissing Helena, together With my kiss, my soul beside it Ca... ... IRIT OF PL IRIT OF PL IRIT OF PLA A A A AT T T T TO. O. O. O. O. From the Greek. Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb? To what sublime and star-yp... ...yst thou flow _5 Unmingled with the bitter Doric dew! Begin, and, whilst the goats are browsing now The soft leaves, i... ...t The T yrant. : A T ragedy. : In Two Acts. : Translated from the Original Doric. : — Choose Reform or civil-war, : When thro’ thy streets, in- stead ...

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...rne, Captain T ait, hunting pirates and keeping a watch on the Turkish and Greek squadrons in the Archipelago. Captain T ait was a favourite with Sir ... ...ind there is another there to-morrow.’ And sure enough there was an- other Greek dangling the next day. ‘Captain Hamilton, of the Cambrian, kept the G... ...e first Protestant student was moved to thank his stars: that there was no Greek required for the degree. Little did he think, as he set down his grat... ... England – Fleeming at Fairbairn’s – Experience in a Strike – Dr. Bell and Greek Architecture – The Gaskells – Fleeming at Greenwich – The Austins – F... ...with Dr. Bell, ‘working away at certain geometrical methods of getting the Greek architectural pro- portions’: a business after Fleeming’s heart, for ... ... fact that certain geo- metrical intersections gave the proportions of the Doric or- der. Fleeming, under Dr. Bell’s direction, applied the same metho... ...ments of the mas- ter.’ I do not know about the antagonistic forces in the Doric order; in Fleeming they were plain enough; and the Bobadil of these a...

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...mself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity was not enough for him. Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangero... ...riendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning t... ... from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could n... ...kind of gloss of antique novelty to his work. He fabricated words, too, on Greek and Latin models, with great ease, sometimes audaciously and with nee... ...ucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity, Greek as well as Latin, with whom Rabelais is more permeated even than Mont... ...Bacchus above all other gods, and gave him the name of Psila, which in the Doric dialect signifies wings; for, as the birds raise themselves by a towe... .... After we were got down the steps, we came to a portal of fine jasper, of Doric order, on whose front we read this sentence in the finest gold, (Gree... ...e, with its stylobates or footsteps, arulets, cymasults or blunt tops, and Doric undu- lations about it. It was exactly round within. On the middle po...

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...the morning he had read Theocritus, whom he believed to be the greatest of Greek poets; he had lunched with a merry don and had tasted Zwieback biscui... ...nkled innumerable stars—gods and heroes, vir- gins and brides, to whom the Greeks have given their names. “Life without an ideal—” repeated Mr. Pembro... ... liked, but where anything you did would be transfigured. Like the ancient Greeks, he could even laugh at his holy place and leave it no less holy. He... ... behind her 35 EM Forster there stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one. He was fair and cleanshaven, ... ...r. Pembroke, laying a hand on his back. “We’ve been nearly as great as the Greeks, I do believe. Greater, I’m sure, than the Italians, though they did... ...d? Is there no one, in all these downs, who warbles with eager thought the Doric lay?” “Chaps sing to themselves at times, if you mean that.” “I dream...

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...omething in me to be credible or intelligible. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten... ...e same character! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucy... ... sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art. And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the... ...in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jo... ...ture, as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes. The Doric temple preserves the sem- blance of the wooden cabin in which the Dor... ... of ruined villas. What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods from the Heroic... ...ing to be done and the conditions to be observed. And why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic model? Beauty, convenience, gran- deur of thought and q... ...poor and short. Its own idea it never executed. The Iliad, the Hamlet, the Doric column, the Roman arch, the Gothic minster, the German anthem, when t...

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...us much may give us light after what sort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. Areopagitica Milton 8 The Romans also, for many ages trained ... ...l the learning of the Egyp Areopagitica Milton 13 tians, Chaldeans, and Greeks, which could not probably be without reading their books of all so... ...hought it no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets, and one of them a tragedian; the question was notwith stand... ...o man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, mo tion, or dep... ... touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was d...

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...quite sickly, and disproportioned to its breadth? We find, moreover, that his Greek and Latin were “mechanically” taught; He brew scarce even mechanic... ...t is not mad? Nevertheless, one may still murmur audibly, or in the original Greek if that suit thee better: ‘Whoso can look on Death will start at no... ...was trifling.” Thou foolish Teufelsdr¨ ockh How could it else? Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of Man is an Action, and no... ...erto in all other lands; still as of old, ‘what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!’—In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is... ...t that thou canst trample the Earth with its injuries under thy feet, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the Earth while it injures thee,... ...lodyte Chasm, with frightful green mantled pools); and shape themselves into Doric and Ionic pillars, squared ashlar houses and noble streets? Was it ...

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... from the skirts of our garments, making haste past those houses with purely Doric or Gothic fronts, which have such an air of repose about them, my c... ...the beauty of the land scape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Beauty , or Order, but we do not see clearly why ...

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... erse The measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek and of Virgil in Latin; rhyme be- ing no necessary adjunct of true ... ...eav’n; or on the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or in DODONA, and through all the bounds Of DORIC Land; or who with SATURN old Fled over ADRIA to th’ HESPERIAN Field... ...s and voices sweet, Built like a Temple, where PILASTERS round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Architrave; nor did there want Cornice... ...r LAVINIA disespous’d, Or NEPTUN’S ire or JUNO’S, that so long Perplex’d the GREEK and CYTHEREA’S Son; If answerable style I can obtaine Of my Celesti...

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...n; or on the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or in DODONA, and through all the bounds Of DORIC Land; or who with SATURN old Fled over ADRIA to th’ HESPERIAN Fie... ...d voices sweet, Built like a Temple, where PILASTERS round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Architrave; nor did there want 715 ... ...VINIA disespous’d, Or NEPTUN’S ire or JUNO’S, that so long Perplex’d the GREEK and CYTHEREA’S Son; If answerable style I can obtaine 20 Of my C...

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...courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity Till all his Greek and Latin learning seemed A long blast upon the horn that brought A l... ...s because I lay about me with the taws That night and morning I may thrash Greek Alexander from my flesh, Augustus Caesar, and after these That great r... ... blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. THE TOWER 215 Everything that man esteems Endures a mome... ...00 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS II Ribh Denounces Patrick An abstract Greek absurdity has crazed the man — Recall that masculine Trinity. Man, wo...

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...mily arms supported by two other club-bearers, the stone-built lodges, the Doric, ivy-covered columns which surrounded the circle, the four grim savag... ...le, and kissing his niece’s forehead as he left the room. CHAPTER XII WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK, THEN COMES THE TUG OF WAR The doctor, that is our doctor...