 | Giambattista Vico - 2000 - 928 pages
...man among you Solon in return asked him what he meam. I mean to say. he replied, that in mind you are all young: there is no old opinion handed down among you by anciem tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age." And again at sec. 23b: "As for those genealogies... | |
 | Norma Thompson - 2008 - 256 pages
...between the ancient records of Egypt and the Egyptians as a source of wisdom: "in mind you [Greeks] are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among...tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age." In the Laws, Plato has the Athenian stranger praise the "astounding" legislation in Egypt which forbade... | |
 | Rene Noorbergen - 2001 - 250 pages
...of events." Plato, in the Timaeus, recorded what the Egyptian priests had told his ancestor, Solon: "There have been and there will be again many destructions of mankind," and when civilization is destroyed, "you have to begin all over again as children." The Sumerians,... | |
 | Pieter Willem van der Horst - 2002 - 296 pages
...them. When Solon asks what he means by that, the Egyptian replies: I mean to say that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among...you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is 13 Adler, Time Immemorial 60-61, assumes that the inundation of the Nile was invented by Chaeremon... | |
 | Carl J. Becker - 2004 - 413 pages
...you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you. In mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among...science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the... | |
 | Ian Wilson - 2004 - 356 pages
...among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among...science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the... | |
 | Henry B. Ambrose - 2005 - 911 pages
...is a Hellene." Socrates: "What do you mean?" "I mean to say," he replied, "that in my mind, you are all young. There is no old opinion handed down among...is hoary with age, and I will tell you the reason for this; there have been, and there will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many... | |
 | Laura Knight-Jadczyk - 2005 - 829 pages
...among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among...science, which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the... | |
 | Paul A. LaViolette - 2005 - 452 pages
...among you." Solon in return asked him what he meant. "I mean to say," he replied, "that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among...science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the... | |
 | Dr. S Radhakrishnan - 2005 - 110 pages
...Hellene.' Solon in return asked him what he meant. 'I meant to say,' he replied, 'that in mind you are all young: there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science hoary with age.' The Greeks had no venerated classics or hoary books to check their free speculation.... | |
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I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. 
