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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... fortune , and his friends were the most confiderable men in the ftate , he dreaded the ban of oftracism , and therefore intermeddled not with state - affairs , but behaved with great courage and intrepidity in the field . How- ever ...
... fortune , and his friends were the most confiderable men in the ftate , he dreaded the ban of oftracism , and therefore intermeddled not with state - affairs , but behaved with great courage and intrepidity in the field . How- ever ...
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... fortune , which he employed in relieving the poor Athenians , in providing victuals every day for the neceffitous , and cloathing the aged , and , befide this , levelled his fences with the ground , that all might be at liberty to ...
... fortune , which he employed in relieving the poor Athenians , in providing victuals every day for the neceffitous , and cloathing the aged , and , befide this , levelled his fences with the ground , that all might be at liberty to ...
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... fortune to be chofen Archon , Thefmotbetes , King of the facred rites , or Po- lemarch . For perfons were of old appointed to thefe offices by lot ; and fuch as had difcharged them well , and fuch only , were admitted as judges in the ...
... fortune to be chofen Archon , Thefmotbetes , King of the facred rites , or Po- lemarch . For perfons were of old appointed to thefe offices by lot ; and fuch as had difcharged them well , and fuch only , were admitted as judges in the ...
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... and lands which had belonged to the tyrants .. He did not , however , give way to the wild de- fires of the citizens , nor would he indulge them , when : when , elated with their strength and good fortune PERICLE S. 29.
... and lands which had belonged to the tyrants .. He did not , however , give way to the wild de- fires of the citizens , nor would he indulge them , when : when , elated with their strength and good fortune PERICLE S. 29.
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... fortune , they talked of recovering Egypt , and of attempt- ing the coaft of Perfia . Many were likewife at this time poffeffed with the unfortunate paffion for Si- cily , which the orators of Alcibiades's party after- wards inflamed ...
... fortune , they talked of recovering Egypt , and of attempt- ing the coaft of Perfia . Many were likewife at this time poffeffed with the unfortunate paffion for Si- cily , which the orators of Alcibiades's party after- wards inflamed ...
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