Plutarch's Lives of the Most Select and Illustrious Characters of AntiquityW.C. Borradaile, 1832 - 432 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 186 - nor do I even know him"; but it vexes me to hear him every where called the Just." Aristides made no answer, but took the shell, and having written his own name upon it, returned it to the man. When he quitted Athens, he lifted up his hands towards heaven, and agreeably to his character, made a prayer, very different from that </ Achilles; namely, " That the people of Athens might never see the day, which should force them to remember Aristides.
الصفحة 367 - The evening before, he supped with Marcus Lepidus, and signed, according to custom, a number of letters, as he sat at table. While he was so employed, there arose a question,— " What kind of death was the best?" and Coesar answering before them all, cried out,—
الصفحة 34 - There were fifteen persons to a table, or a few more or less. Each of them was obliged to bring in monthly a bushel of meal, eight gallons of wine, five pounds of cheese, two pounds and a half of figs, and a little money to buy flesh and fish. If any of them happened to offer a sacrifice of...
الصفحة 346 - ... but they were astonished at his patience under toil, so far in all appearance above his bodily powers. For he was of a slender make, fair, of a delicate constitution, and subject to violent headaches and epileptic fits. He had the first attack of the falling sickness at Corduba. He did not, however, make these disorders a pretence for indulging himself. On the contrary, he sought in war a remedy for his infirmities, endeavouring to strengthen his constitution by long marches, by simple diet,...
الصفحة 204 - A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.
الصفحة 307 - Alexander had no more than thirty- four men killed, nine of which were the infantry. To do honour to their memory, he erected a statue to each of them in brass, the workmanship of Lysippus. And that the Greeks might have their share in the glory of the day, he sent them presents out of the spoil : to the Athenians in particular he sent three hundred bucklers. Upon the rest of the spoils he put this pompous inscription : " Won by Alexander the son of Philip, and the Greeks (excepting the Lacedaemonians,)...
الصفحة 304 - Cranium, he went to see him. Diogenes happened to be lying in the sun ; and at the approach of so many people, he raised himself up a little, and fixed his eyes upon Alexander. The king addressed him in an obliging manner, and asked him, " If there was anything he could serve him in?" "Only stand a little out of my sunshine,
الصفحة 419 - Caesar's house, and stab himself upon the altar of his domestic gods, to bring the divine vengeance upon his betrayer. But he was deterred from this by the fear of torture. Other alternatives, equally distressful, presented themselves. At last, he put himself in the hands of his servants, and ordered them to carry him by sea to Cajeta, where he had a delightful retreat in the summer, when the Etesian [northeast] winds set in.
الصفحة 68 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
الصفحة 93 - The king, delighted with the comparison, bade him take what time he pleased ; and he desired a year: in which space he learned the Persian language, so as to be able to con Terse with the king without an interpreter.