Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, Volume 2Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770 |
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... cause , and the other the end . It was the business of the former to ac- count for the appearance , and to confider ... causes , and yet each has another fignification . But perhaps this question might be more properly difcuffed in ...
... cause , and the other the end . It was the business of the former to ac- count for the appearance , and to confider ... causes , and yet each has another fignification . But perhaps this question might be more properly difcuffed in ...
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... number of the citizens ; who fometimes re- ceived one obolus each for every cause they tried ; and fome- times men who aimed at popularity procured this fee to be increased . member , having never had the fortune to be chofen PERICLE S. 13.
... number of the citizens ; who fometimes re- ceived one obolus each for every cause they tried ; and fome- times men who aimed at popularity procured this fee to be increased . member , having never had the fortune to be chofen PERICLE S. 13.
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... caused the orator Ephialtes , his friend and affiftant in the adminiftration , to be affaffinated , through jealoufy and envy of his great character ? I know not where he met with this calumny , which he vents with 3 ⚫ Yet Cimon was ...
... caused the orator Ephialtes , his friend and affiftant in the adminiftration , to be affaffinated , through jealoufy and envy of his great character ? I know not where he met with this calumny , which he vents with 3 ⚫ Yet Cimon was ...
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... to this reading the paffage must be tranflated , manned with the citizens , whose pay was eight mine , and who at the fame time im- proved , & c . VOL . II . C ་ ་ the 1 " the fpecious apology , of having caused the PERICLE S .. 17.
... to this reading the paffage must be tranflated , manned with the citizens , whose pay was eight mine , and who at the fame time im- proved , & c . VOL . II . C ་ ་ the 1 " the fpecious apology , of having caused the PERICLE S .. 17.
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... caused the mo- " ney to be brought to Athens for its greater fe- " curity , and to keep it from being feized by the " barbarians : That Greece muft needs confider it * as the highest infult , and an act of open tyranny , " when the faw ...
... caused the mo- " ney to be brought to Athens for its greater fe- " curity , and to keep it from being feized by the " barbarians : That Greece muft needs confider it * as the highest infult , and an act of open tyranny , " when the faw ...
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