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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... houses , and wealthy fa- milies , and could not bear to think of the expences being fo nicely adjusted to the income . The person who managed thefe concerns with fo much exactness , was a fervant of his named Evan- gelus , either ...
... houses , and wealthy fa- milies , and could not bear to think of the expences being fo nicely adjusted to the income . The person who managed thefe concerns with fo much exactness , was a fervant of his named Evan- gelus , either ...
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... houses 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.
... houses 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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... house . Æfchines informs us , that Lyficles , who was a grazier , and of a mean ungenerous difpofition , by his intercourfe with Afpafia after the death of Pericles , became the most confiderable man in Athens . And though Plato's ...
... house . Æfchines informs us , that Lyficles , who was a grazier , and of a mean ungenerous difpofition , by his intercourfe with Afpafia after the death of Pericles , became the most confiderable man in Athens . And though Plato's ...
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... house women above the condition of flaves for the pleasure of Pericles . And Diopithes procured a decree , that those who difputed the existence of the gods , or in- troduced new opinions about celeftial appearances , fhould be tried ...
... house women above the condition of flaves for the pleasure of Pericles . And Diopithes procured a decree , that those who difputed the existence of the gods , or in- troduced new opinions about celeftial appearances , fhould be tried ...
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... house , and the conversations he held with the philofophers . He faid , that Epi- timius the Pharfalian , having undefignedly killed a horfe with a javelin which he threw at the pub- lic games , his father fpent a whole day in dif ...
... house , and the conversations he held with the philofophers . He faid , that Epi- timius the Pharfalian , having undefignedly killed a horfe with a javelin which he threw at the pub- lic games , his father fpent a whole day in dif ...
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