The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... Women - Praise of Modesty - Faults of Philoso- phers - Lending Money 888-978 BOOK XIV . • Jesters - Concerts - Songs - Rhapsodists — Magodi — Harp - players- Music - Dancing -Dances - Music - Musical Instruments - Music- Love Songs ...
... Women - Praise of Modesty - Faults of Philoso- phers - Lending Money 888-978 BOOK XIV . • Jesters - Concerts - Songs - Rhapsodists — Magodi — Harp - players- Music - Dancing -Dances - Music - Musical Instruments - Music- Love Songs ...
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... women are his guard , as Heraclides of Cuma relates , in the first book of his history of Persia . And they sleep all day , that they may watch all night ; and they pass the whole night in singing and playing , with lights burning . And ...
... women are his guard , as Heraclides of Cuma relates , in the first book of his history of Persia . And they sleep all day , that they may watch all night ; and they pass the whole night in singing and playing , with lights burning . And ...
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... women , as Xanthus the Lydian tells us , or whoever else it was who wrote the History which is attributed to him , whom Artemon of Cassandra , in his treatise on the Collection of Books , states to have been Dionysius who was surnamed ...
... women , as Xanthus the Lydian tells us , or whoever else it was who wrote the History which is attributed to him , whom Artemon of Cassandra , in his treatise on the Collection of Books , states to have been Dionysius who was surnamed ...
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... women instead of like men ; on which account their age produced even a female tyrant , in the person of one of those who had been ravished in this way , by name Omphale . And she was the first to inflict on the Lydians the punishment ...
... women instead of like men ; on which account their age produced even a female tyrant , in the person of one of those who had been ravished in this way , by name Omphale . And she was the first to inflict on the Lydians the punishment ...
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... women should be in common : and that the women pay the greatest attention to their persons , and often practise gymnastic exercises , naked , among the men , and sometimes with one another ; for that it is not accounted shameful for ...
... women should be in common : and that the women pay the greatest attention to their persons , and often practise gymnastic exercises , naked , among the men , and sometimes with one another ; for that it is not accounted shameful for ...
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