Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1J.M. Dent, 1961 |
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... history find a footing in , I might very well say of those that are farther off : " Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions , the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables ; there is no credit , or certainty ...
... history find a footing in , I might very well say of those that are farther off : " Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions , the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables ; there is no credit , or certainty ...
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... history of Italy . But the story which is most believed and has the greatest number of vouchers was first published , in its chief particulars , amongst the Greeks by Diocles of Peparethus , whom Fabius . Pictor also follows in most ...
... history of Italy . But the story which is most believed and has the greatest number of vouchers was first published , in its chief particulars , amongst the Greeks by Diocles of Peparethus , whom Fabius . Pictor also follows in most ...
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... history , where he all but uses an actual stage machine , and brings in Neocles and Demopolis as the sons of Themistocles , to incite or move compassion , as if he were writing a tragedy . Diodorus the cosmographer says , in his work on ...
... history , where he all but uses an actual stage machine , and brings in Neocles and Demopolis as the sons of Themistocles , to incite or move compassion , as if he were writing a tragedy . Diodorus the cosmographer says , in his work on ...
Contents
THE COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS | 56 |
NUMA POMPILIUS | 91 |
THE COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS | 114 |
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