The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H. G. Bohn, 1854 - 1252 pages |
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... invented by the ancients , as a comparison between pleasure and virtue . Ac- cordingly , when Venus , that is to say pleasure , was preferred , everything was thrown into confusion . And that excellent writer Xenophon seems to me to ...
... invented by the ancients , as a comparison between pleasure and virtue . Ac- cordingly , when Venus , that is to say pleasure , was preferred , everything was thrown into confusion . And that excellent writer Xenophon seems to me to ...
Page 825
... 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 , and thought this was the ...
... 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 , and thought this was the ...
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... inventing something new ; and the same is the way with all other delicacies . For they retain men whose sole business it is to invent things of this kind . And in winter it is not enough for them to have their head , and their body ...
... inventing something new ; and the same is the way with all other delicacies . For they retain men whose sole business it is to invent things of this kind . And in winter it is not enough for them to have their head , and their body ...
Page 835
... invented any peculiar and excellent dish , no other artist was allowed to make this for a year ; but he alone who invented it was entitled to all the profit to be derived from the manu- facture of it for that time ; in order that others ...
... invented any peculiar and excellent dish , no other artist was allowed to make this for a year ; but he alone who invented it was entitled to all the profit to be derived from the manu- facture of it for that time ; in order that others ...
Page 848
... invent any delicious food . For this is what , I imagine , is meant by the brains of Jupiter and the king . On which account , " continues he , " Sardanapa- lus was the most happy of all monarchs , who during his whole life preferred ...
... invent any delicious food . For this is what , I imagine , is meant by the brains of Jupiter and the king . On which account , " continues he , " Sardanapa- lus was the most happy of all monarchs , who during his whole life preferred ...
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