Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, المجلد 4C. Bathurst, 1794 |
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الصفحة 147 - Many statesmen and philosophers came to congratulate him on the occasion ; and he hoped that Diogenes of Sinope, who then lived at Corinth, would be of the number. Finding, however, that he made but little account of Alexander...
الصفحة 254 - Saying this, he approached the doors of the treasury, and as the keys were not produced, he sent for workmen to break them open. Metellus opposed him again, and some praised his .firmness; but Caesar, raising his voice, threatened to put him to death if he gave him any farther trouble: — " And, young man," said he, "you are not ignorant that this is harder for me to say than to do...
الصفحة 9 - And the famed courser of the king of kings : Whom rich Echepolus (more rich than brave), To scape the wars, to Agamemnon gave, (JEthe her name) at home to end his days ; Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.