Lucian's Dialogues: Namely the Dialogues of the Gods, of the Sea-gods, and of the Dead; Zeus the Tragedian, the Ferry-boat, EtcG. Bell and sons, 1888 - 315 pages |
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... reason the lying - in of the king of Gods and men with Bacchus . X. Hermes conveys to Helios the order of Zeus : that he is to refrain from driving his chariot , until the completion of the amour of the king of gods and men with Alkmene ...
... reason the lying - in of the king of Gods and men with Bacchus . X. Hermes conveys to Helios the order of Zeus : that he is to refrain from driving his chariot , until the completion of the amour of the king of gods and men with Alkmene ...
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... reason of his great wealth , he had enjoyed the adulation of the world and an abundance of gifts from speculating flatterers , and how he had disappointed them all by his will X. An alarming number of ghosts crowd to the Styx . Charon ...
... reason of his great wealth , he had enjoyed the adulation of the world and an abundance of gifts from speculating flatterers , and how he had disappointed them all by his will X. An alarming number of ghosts crowd to the Styx . Charon ...
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... reason of his arrogance and pride , and ridi- cules the vanity of his grandeur and power on earth , and , in particular , the uselessness to him of his magnificent tomb at Halikarnassus . He concludes his diatribe with contrasting his ...
... reason of his arrogance and pride , and ridi- cules the vanity of his grandeur and power on earth , and , in particular , the uselessness to him of his magnificent tomb at Halikarnassus . He concludes his diatribe with contrasting his ...
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... reasons , to consult an oculist ; and in his Nigrinus , the literary result of his visit , he stigmatizes the prevail- ing corruptions and laborious trifling of the literary as well as fashionable society of the capital . After a stay ...
... reasons , to consult an oculist ; and in his Nigrinus , the literary result of his visit , he stigmatizes the prevail- ing corruptions and laborious trifling of the literary as well as fashionable society of the capital . After a stay ...
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... reason of their popular subject - matter and peculiar graces of style , have always been most generally read . His more con- siderable masterpieces are Zeus the Tragedian , the Sale of Lives , the Timon , the Ferry Boat , the Twice ...
... reason of their popular subject - matter and peculiar graces of style , have always been most generally read . His more con- siderable masterpieces are Zeus the Tragedian , the Sale of Lives , the Timon , the Ferry Boat , the Twice ...
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