Plutarch's Lives: The "Dryden Plutarch", المجلد 2J. M. Dent, 1920 |
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الصفحة 570 - Vile Casca, what does this mean ? " and he that gave it, in Greek, to his brother, " Brother, help!" Upon this first onset, those who were not privy to the design were astonished, and their horror and amazement at what they saw were so great, that they durst not fly nor assist Caesar, nor so much as speak a word. But those who came prepared for the business inclosed him on every side, with their naked daggers in their hands.
الصفحة 145 - exiles who threw themselves at his feet, partly by the entreaties of the senators who attended him in that expedition, and being himself satiated with blood besides, he was at last prevailed upon to stop his hand ; and, in compliment to the ancient Athenians, he said, " He forgave the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead...
الصفحة 119 - And some state, in fact, the proposal was made in the congress of the allies, that the Athenians should all be sold as slaves ; on which occasion, Erianthus, the Theban, gave his vote to pull down the city, and turn the country into sheep-pasture ; yet afterwards, when there was a meeting of the captains together, a man of Phocis, singing the first chorus in Euripides's Electra, which begins, Electra, Agamemnon's child, I come Unto thy desert home...
الصفحة 306 - Sertorius heard this account, he was seized with a wonderful passion for these islands, and had an extreme desire to go and live there in peace and quietness, and safe from oppression and unending wars; but his inclinations being perceived by the Cilician pirates, who...
الصفحة 119 - Accordingly Lysander, the Athenians yielding up everything, sent for a number of flute-women out of the city, and collected together all that were in the camp, and pulled down the walls, and burned the ships to the sound of the flute; the allies being crowned with garlands, and making merry together, as counting that day the beginning of their liberty. He proceeded also at once to alter the government, placing thirty rulers in the city, and ten in the Piraeus; he put also a garrison into the Acropolis,...
الصفحة 477 - Darius treasured up there, he found an exceeding rich and beautiful little chest or casket, and asked those about him what they thought fittest to be laid up in it. When they had severally delivered their opinions, he told them, he esteemed nothing so worthy to be preserved in it as Homer's Iliad.
الصفحة 572 - ... he saw a terrible appearance in the human form, but of prodigious stature and the most hideous aspect. At first he was struck with astonishment ; but when he saw it neither did nor spoke anything to him, but stood in silence by his bed, he asked it, who it was. The spectre answered, " I am thy evil genius, Brutus ; thou shalt see me at Philippi.
الصفحة 563 - ... labors, but were incentives and encouragements to go on, and raised in him ideas of still greater actions, and a desire of new glory, as if the present were all spent. It was in fact a sort of emulous struggle with himself, as it had been with another, how he might outdo his past actions by his future.
الصفحة 530 - I have not just cause to weep, when I consider that Alexander at my age had conquered so many nations, and I have all this time done nothing that is memorable...