The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... respect . " 11. The Lydians , too , went to such a pitch of luxury , that they were the first to castrate women , as Xanthus the Lydian tells us , or whoever else it was who wrote the History which is attributed to him , whom Artemon of ...
... respect . " 11. The Lydians , too , went to such a pitch of luxury , that they were the first to castrate women , as Xanthus the Lydian tells us , or whoever else it was who wrote the History which is attributed to him , whom Artemon of ...
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... respect surpassed other men : for that the greatest coward on earth would rather die a thousand times than live and endure such a life as theirs . 16. And it is a custom among them that even their chil- dren , up to the age when they ...
... respect surpassed other men : for that the greatest coward on earth would rather die a thousand times than live and endure such a life as theirs . 16. And it is a custom among them that even their chil- dren , up to the age when they ...
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... respecting any public rights of hos- pitality ; but , led only by your own lawless and intemperate disposition , to learn lascivious habits and actions from the women at Abydus , in order that you might be able to put them in practice ...
... respecting any public rights of hos- pitality ; but , led only by your own lawless and intemperate disposition , to learn lascivious habits and actions from the women at Abydus , in order that you might be able to put them in practice ...
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... to change cloaks with him . And so by all these means he acquired a high reputation , and was the first of all the citizens . " And But Pisistratus was in many respects very oppressive ; and c . 44. ] 853 THE PISISTRATIDE .
... to change cloaks with him . And so by all these means he acquired a high reputation , and was the first of all the citizens . " And But Pisistratus was in many respects very oppressive ; and c . 44. ] 853 THE PISISTRATIDE .
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Athenaeus (of Naucratis.) But Pisistratus was in many respects very oppressive ; and some say that that statue of Bacchus which there is at Athens was made in his likeness . 45. And Heraclides of Pontus , in his treatise on Pleasure ...
Athenaeus (of Naucratis.) But Pisistratus was in many respects very oppressive ; and some say that that statue of Bacchus which there is at Athens was made in his likeness . 45. And Heraclides of Pontus , in his treatise on Pleasure ...
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