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
... object of his tender regards , the millionaire nonagenarian , Thukritus . Pluto convinces Terpsion of the injustice of his accu- sation ; and the legacy - hunter consoles himself in the prospect of being soon joined in Hades by his late ...
... object of his tender regards , the millionaire nonagenarian , Thukritus . Pluto convinces Terpsion of the injustice of his accu- sation ; and the legacy - hunter consoles himself in the prospect of being soon joined in Hades by his late ...
Page viii
... objects in life XII . Alexander of Macedon and Hannibal , quarrelling for 102 105 . 112 precedence , submit the arbitrament of their cause to Minos . Each recounts his exploits . Scipio , the conqueror of Carthage , intervenes , and ...
... objects in life XII . Alexander of Macedon and Hannibal , quarrelling for 102 105 . 112 precedence , submit the arbitrament of their cause to Minos . Each recounts his exploits . Scipio , the conqueror of Carthage , intervenes , and ...
Page ix
... object of his vengeance . Menelaus shifts the responsibility to the shoulders of Paris . Paris lays the blame upon Eros . Æakus decides that Protesilaus has only himself to blame for preferring military glory to a young and beau- tiful ...
... object of his vengeance . Menelaus shifts the responsibility to the shoulders of Paris . Paris lays the blame upon Eros . Æakus decides that Protesilaus has only himself to blame for preferring military glory to a young and beau- tiful ...
Page xv
... object of supreme intellectual curiosity . It was on his journey to Athens that he had the interview with the Paphlagonian prophet , Alexander , which gave birth to his satire of that name . The contempt openly exhibited by him for that ...
... object of supreme intellectual curiosity . It was on his journey to Athens that he had the interview with the Paphlagonian prophet , Alexander , which gave birth to his satire of that name . The contempt openly exhibited by him for that ...
Page xxii
... objects of the national and popular worship . In the two next centuries Scepticism was rampant . In the lighter forms of literature , the Mimes ( " parodies " ) of Sophron of Syrakuse , and the bitter satires ( silloi , as they were ...
... objects of the national and popular worship . In the two next centuries Scepticism was rampant . In the lighter forms of literature , the Mimes ( " parodies " ) of Sophron of Syrakuse , and the bitter satires ( silloi , as they were ...
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