The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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Page 825
... gave to all those who could invent him any new kind of food , a prize for their invention , he did not , while loading them with honours , allow the food which they had invented to be set before them , but enjoyed it all by himself ...
... gave to all those who could invent him any new kind of food , a prize for their invention , he did not , while loading them with honours , allow the food which they had invented to be set before them , but enjoyed it all by himself ...
Page 827
... gave the maiden daughters of the masters to their slaves , in the very same place in which she herself had been ravished . And then having forcibly collected them all in this place , she shut up the mistresses with their slaves . On ...
... gave the maiden daughters of the masters to their slaves , in the very same place in which she herself had been ravished . And then having forcibly collected them all in this place , she shut up the mistresses with their slaves . On ...
Page 832
... gave the preference to the Tyrrhenians , and of foreigners to the Ionians , because they were devoted to luxury . But the cavalry of the Sybarites , being in number more than five thousand , used to go in procession with saffron ...
... gave the preference to the Tyrrhenians , and of foreigners to the Ionians , because they were devoted to luxury . But the cavalry of the Sybarites , being in number more than five thousand , used to go in procession with saffron ...
Page 838
... gave rise to this report ; for indeed the thunderbolts with which they were stricken down were visible a long time afterwards . And to this very day all their descendants live with shaven heads and in mourning apparel , in want of all ...
... gave rise to this report ; for indeed the thunderbolts with which they were stricken down were visible a long time afterwards . And to this very day all their descendants live with shaven heads and in mourning apparel , in want of all ...
Page 843
... gave the same account of them , in the first book of his Laws . And Antiphanes , speaking generally of the luxury of all the Ionians , has the following lines in his Dodona : - Say , from what country do you come , what land Call you ...
... gave the same account of them , in the first book of his Laws . And Antiphanes , speaking generally of the luxury of all the Ionians , has the following lines in his Dodona : - Say , from what country do you come , what land Call you ...
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