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... seems to set vividly before us the quiet literary occupation of his later days . " For Plutarch , though ho tarried a long while in Italy , and in Rome , yet that tooke not away the remembrance of the sweet aire of Greece , and of the ...
... seems to set vividly before us the quiet literary occupation of his later days . " For Plutarch , though ho tarried a long while in Italy , and in Rome , yet that tooke not away the remembrance of the sweet aire of Greece , and of the ...
Page xxx
... seems to speak of her as having been recently an inmate of his house , but without enabling us to form an opinion whether she describes Was his daughter or not . A modern writer well his maturer years by the words : " Plutarch was ...
... seems to speak of her as having been recently an inmate of his house , but without enabling us to form an opinion whether she describes Was his daughter or not . A modern writer well his maturer years by the words : " Plutarch was ...
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... seems to have been much of the as that which made the reputation of kind Hesiod , in the collection of maxims known as the ' Works and Days . ' One of theso maxims is indeed ascribed to Pittheus : " Let promised pay be truly paid to ...
... seems to have been much of the as that which made the reputation of kind Hesiod , in the collection of maxims known as the ' Works and Days . ' One of theso maxims is indeed ascribed to Pittheus : " Let promised pay be truly paid to ...
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... seems , produced mon of great and un- as the holo way was infested with robbers and bandits . wearied strength and swiftness , who mado no good uso of though way . dedicated his hair to the river Sperchcius . The Athenian youth time ...
... seems , produced mon of great and un- as the holo way was infested with robbers and bandits . wearied strength and swiftness , who mado no good uso of though way . dedicated his hair to the river Sperchcius . The Athenian youth time ...
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... seems , struck passers - by with his head , and 80 killed them . So also did Theseus sally forth and chastise evildoers , making them undergo the same crueltios which they practised on others , thus justly punishing them for their ...
... seems , struck passers - by with his head , and 80 killed them . So also did Theseus sally forth and chastise evildoers , making them undergo the same crueltios which they practised on others , thus justly punishing them for their ...
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