Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... death Homer speaks of . " By this speech he made Alexander his enemy . The same Theocritus put Antigonus , the King of the Macedonians , a one - eyed man , into a thundering rage by alluding to his misfortune . For the King sent his ...
... death Homer speaks of . " By this speech he made Alexander his enemy . The same Theocritus put Antigonus , the King of the Macedonians , a one - eyed man , into a thundering rage by alluding to his misfortune . For the King sent his ...
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... death , kindling it again by new births . And this boy - love denies that pleasure is its aim : for it is ashamed and afraid to confess the truth : but it needs some specious excuse for the liberties it takes with handsome boys in their ...
... death , kindling it again by new births . And this boy - love denies that pleasure is its aim : for it is ashamed and afraid to confess the truth : but it needs some specious excuse for the liberties it takes with handsome boys in their ...
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... death ; and all her commands being obeyed , she ruled over Asia for a long time with great lustre . And was not Belestiche a foreign woman off the streets , although at Alexandria she has shrines and temples , with an inscription as ...
... death ; and all her commands being obeyed , she ruled over Asia for a long time with great lustre . And was not Belestiche a foreign woman off the streets , although at Alexandria she has shrines and temples , with an inscription as ...
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... death : for even then there is a conductor and guide for the de- parted , to lay them to sleep , and convey their souls to Hades , ' as the poet says , ' Night bore me not to be lord of the lyre , Nor to be seer , or healer of diseases ...
... death : for even then there is a conductor and guide for the de- parted , to lay them to sleep , and convey their souls to Hades , ' as the poet says , ' Night bore me not to be lord of the lyre , Nor to be seer , or healer of diseases ...
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... death , beyond what one would expect from their nature . For if we may credit legendary lore , the stories about Alcestis , and Protesilaus , and Eurydice the wife of Orpheus , show that the only one of the gods that Hades pays ...
... death , beyond what one would expect from their nature . For if we may credit legendary lore , the stories about Alcestis , and Protesilaus , and Eurydice the wife of Orpheus , show that the only one of the gods that Hades pays ...
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