Dialogues: Namely, The Dialogues of the Gods, of the Sea-gods, and of the Dead; Zeus the Tragedian, The Ferry-boat, EtcBell, 1888 - 291 pages |
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Page 158
... Damis the millionaire , he of Korinth . Damis died from poison administered by his son ; Lampis cut his own throat for love of Myrtium , the celebrated courtesan ; while Blepsias , the poor wretch , was said to have slowly starved to ...
... Damis the millionaire , he of Korinth . Damis died from poison administered by his son ; Lampis cut his own throat for love of Myrtium , the celebrated courtesan ; while Blepsias , the poor wretch , was said to have slowly starved to ...
Page 168
... Damis ; and the weakness of the arguments of their over - zealous apologists , the Stoics , represented by a champion named Timokles : which all - important controversy he had chanced to over- hear when present , on the day preceding ...
... Damis ; and the weakness of the arguments of their over - zealous apologists , the Stoics , represented by a champion named Timokles : which all - important controversy he had chanced to over- hear when present , on the day preceding ...
Page 170
... Damis in favour of his opponent , the combatants engage in earnest . As the fortune of the day seems to incline to this side or that , the celestial spectators express , chorus - like , their hopes or fears - the latter , however , very ...
... Damis in favour of his opponent , the combatants engage in earnest . As the fortune of the day seems to incline to this side or that , the celestial spectators express , chorus - like , their hopes or fears - the latter , however , very ...
Page 171
... Damis . Hermes . O Zeus ! why pensive mutter'st inward words , Re - pacing , lonely , as a student pale ? To counsel call me : cast on me thy care , Scorn not thy servant's chat nonsensical ! Athena . Yea , thou supreme of governors ...
... Damis . Hermes . O Zeus ! why pensive mutter'st inward words , Re - pacing , lonely , as a student pale ? To counsel call me : cast on me thy care , Scorn not thy servant's chat nonsensical ! Athena . Yea , thou supreme of governors ...
Page 173
... Damis the Epikurean , Hera , yesterday , from some discourse or other begun be- tween them , were disputing on the subject of Providence , in the presence of a very numerous and select audience a circumstance which especially annoys me ...
... Damis the Epikurean , Hera , yesterday , from some discourse or other begun be- tween them , were disputing on the subject of Providence , in the presence of a very numerous and select audience a circumstance which especially annoys me ...
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