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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... friend to tyranny , he was banished by the oftracifm . Nor was he fpared by the comic poets . One of them , named Plato , introduces a perfon addreffing him thus , Inform me , Damon , first , does fame fay true ? And waft thou really ...
... friend to tyranny , he was banished by the oftracifm . Nor was he fpared by the comic poets . One of them , named Plato , introduces a perfon addreffing him thus , Inform me , Damon , first , does fame fay true ? And waft thou really ...
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... 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 , when Ariftides was ...
... 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 , when Ariftides was ...
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... friends , and all focial entertainments and recre- ations ; infomuch that in the whole time of his ad miniftration , which was of a confiderable length , he never went to fup with any of his friends , but once , which was at the ...
... friends , and all focial entertainments and recre- ations ; infomuch that in the whole time of his ad miniftration , which was of a confiderable length , he never went to fup with any of his friends , but once , which was at the ...
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... friends that feed him . Pericles , defirous to make his language a proper , vehicle for his fublime fentiments , and to speak in a manner that became the dignity of his life , availed . himself greatly of what he had learnt of ...
... friends that feed him . Pericles , defirous to make his language a proper , vehicle for his fublime fentiments , and to speak in a manner that became the dignity of his life , availed . himself greatly of what he had learnt of ...
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... friend to the Lacedæmonians : A man who in birth and fortune had no fuperior , who had gained very glorious victories over ... friends , whom Pericles His treafon against the state was pretended to consist in receiving prefents or other ...
... friend to the Lacedæmonians : A man who in birth and fortune had no fuperior , who had gained very glorious victories over ... friends , whom Pericles His treafon against the state was pretended to consist in receiving prefents or other ...
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