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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Page vii
... Charon arrears of payment due to him for his services on the Styx . Charon excuses himself on the plea of bad times ; no great war or famine , as it happened , ravaging the earth at that moment . Hermes moralizes on the causes of death ...
... Charon arrears of payment due to him for his services on the Styx . Charon excuses himself on the plea of bad times ; no great war or famine , as it happened , ravaging the earth at that moment . Hermes moralizes on the causes of death ...
Page viii
... Charon , fearing for his boat , directs Hermes to see that they were entirely stripped of their various insignia of power , rank , wealth , and the weighty load of vices , before they are admitted on board . Menippus , who is one of the ...
... Charon , fearing for his boat , directs Hermes to see that they were entirely stripped of their various insignia of power , rank , wealth , and the weighty load of vices , before they are admitted on board . Menippus , who is one of the ...
Page x
... Charon demands from Menippus his accustomed Upon the absolute refusal of the Cynic to pay , a lively altercation ensues . fee . XXIII . Protesilaus , an Achæan hero , who had fallen before Ilium , supplicates Pluto to permit him to ...
... Charon demands from Menippus his accustomed Upon the absolute refusal of the Cynic to pay , a lively altercation ensues . fee . XXIII . Protesilaus , an Achæan hero , who had fallen before Ilium , supplicates Pluto to permit him to ...
Page xxi
... Charon , the Icaro - Menippus , the True History , the Prometheus , the Philopseudes , How History Ought to be Written ( the first attempt at a philo- sophy of history , but not of sustained merit throughout ) , the Peregrinus , On ...
... Charon , the Icaro - Menippus , the True History , the Prometheus , the Philopseudes , How History Ought to be Written ( the first attempt at a philo- sophy of history , but not of sustained merit throughout ) , the Peregrinus , On ...
Page 89
... Charon's boat . Karanλ . 22 ; Damoxenus in Pausanias as a famous Syracusan athlete , vii . 2 One reading has μía Múkovos " one Myconos , " an island of the Cyclades , famous for the number of its bald - headed inhabitants . See Plut ...
... Charon's boat . Karanλ . 22 ; Damoxenus in Pausanias as a famous Syracusan athlete , vii . 2 One reading has μía Múkovos " one Myconos , " an island of the Cyclades , famous for the number of its bald - headed inhabitants . See Plut ...
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