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accused action admiration affairs afterwards Alexander amongst Anaxagoras answer appeared Aristides arms army Asia Athenians Athens barbarians battle body brought Brutus Cæsar called camp carried Carthage Carthaginians Cato Cicero Cimbri Cimon Cinna citizens command consul consulship courage danger Darius death defeated desired divine Elpinice enemy engaged Eurybiades Fabius favor fear fell fight forces fought friends Gaul gave give glory gods Greece Greeks hand Hannibal honor horse hundred Italy king Lacedæmonians land live looked Macedonians magistrates marched Marcius master Metellus Minucius Mithridates night occasion Olynthus party passed patricians Pericles Persians person plebeians Plutarch Pompey Pompey's prætors present received river Romans Rome Scipio senate sent Sertorius ships showed side soldiers soon Spain sword Sylla Tarentum temper Themistocles things thought thousand Thucydides tion told took town tribunes Tullus victory Volscians whole Xerxes
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الصفحة xiv - Plutarch, to thy deathless praise Does martial Rome this grateful statue raise, Because both Greece and she thy fame have shared, (Their heroes written, and their lives compared). But thou thyself couldst never write thy own ; Their lives have parallels, but thine has none.
الصفحة 52 - So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of any thing by history, when, on the one hand, those •who afterwards write it find long periods of time intercepting their view, and, on the other hand, the contemporary records of any actions and lives, partly through envy and ill-will, partly through favor and flattery, pervert and distort truth.
الصفحة 116 - So miserable a thing is incredulity and contempt of divine power on the one hand, and so miserable, also, superstition on the other, which like water, where the level has been lowered, flowing in and never stopping, fills the mind with slavish fears and follies, as now in Alexander's case.
الصفحة 75 - Alexander to Aristotle, greeting. " You have not done well to publish your books of Select Knowledge ; for what is there now in which I can surpass others, if those things which I have been instructed in are communicated to every body ? For my own part, I declare to you, I would rather excel others in knowledge than in power.
الصفحة 84 - But the enemy hardly sustaining the first onset, soon gave ground and fled, all but the mercenary Greeks, who, making a stand upon a rising ground, desired quarter, which Alexander, guided rather by passion than judgment, refused to grant, and charging them himself first, had his horse (not Bucephalas, but another) killed under him. And this obstinacy of his to cut off these experienced desperate men, cost him the lives of more of his own soldiers than all the battle before, besides those who were...
الصفحة 74 - ... with a commanding voice, and urging him also with his heel. Philip and his friends looked on at first in silence and anxiety for the result, till seeing him turn at the end of his career, and come back rejoicing and...
الصفحة 57 - Aspasia, some say, was courted and caressed by Pericles upon account of her knowledge and skill in politics. Socrates himself would sometimes go to visit her, and some of his acquaintance with him ; and those who frequented her company would carry their wives with them to listen to her.
الصفحة 84 - Rhoesaces with his sword. While the horse were thus dangerously engaged, the Macedonian phalanx passed the river, and the foot on each side advanced to fight. But the enemy hardly sustaining the first onset, soon gave ground and fled, all but the mercenary Greeks, who, making a stand upon a rising ground, desired quarter, which Alexander, guided rather by passion than judgment, refused to grant, and charging them himself first, had his horse (not Bucephalus, but another) killed under him. And this...
الصفحة xiv - The epigram of Agathias deserves also to be remembered. This author nourished about the year five hundred, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian. The verses are extant in the Anthologia, and with the translation of them I will conclude -the praises of our author; having first admonished you, that they are supposed to be written on a statue erected by the Romans to his memory.
الصفحة 43 - have thrown him and given him a fair fall, by persisting that he had no fall, he gets the better of me, and makes the bystanders, in spite of their own eyes, believe him.