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Page 363 - ... tweaked when he was slow to learn, still less that he should be indebted to his slave for such a priceless thing as education. He was therefore himself not only the boy's reading-teacher, but his tutor in law, and his athletic trainer, and he taught his son not merely to hurl the javelin and fight in armour and ride the horse, but also to box, to endure heat and cold, and to swim strongly through the eddies and billows of the Tiber. His "History of Rome...
Page 329 - ... while he fought, or one who snored louder in bed than he shouted in battle. When reproaching a very fat man he said, " How can this man's body be useful to his country, when all parts between the neck and the groin are possessed by the belly ?" Once when an epicure wished to become his friend, he said that he could not live with a man whose palate was more sensitive than his heart. He said also that the soul of a lover inhabits the body of his beloved. He himself tells us, that in his whole life...
Page 25 - Euboian money, we might suppose, might now have been used with advantage ; but we are not told that Themistokles offered again to bribe them, and all efforts were useless when a scout came with the tidings that Leonidas was slain, and that Xerxes was master of the pass which formed the gate of Southern Hellas. The Greek fleet at once began to retreat, the Corinthians leading the way, and the Athenians following last in order. It is from this point that the courage of the Athenians rises to that patriotic...
Page 229 - This no kings or tyrants ever coveted, nay, they rejoiced to be surnamed "Besiegers", or "Thunderbolts", or "Conquerors", and some "Eagles", or "Hawks", cultivating the reputation which is based on violence and power, as it seems, rather than on virtue. And yet divinity, to which such men are eager to adapt and conform themselves, is believed to have three elements of superiority, — incorruption, power, and virtue; and the most reverend, the divinest of these, is virtue. For vacuum and the...
Page 82 - F»S : ir6\ft city. 82 Persian, Epixyes by name, satrap of Upper Phrygia, plotted against his life, having for a long time kept certain Pisidians in readiness to slay him whenever he should reach the village called Lion's Head, and take up his night's quarters there. But while Themistocles was asleep at midday before, it is said that the Mother of the Gods : appeared to him in a dream and said : " O Themistocles, shun a head of lions, that thou mayest not encounter a lion. And for this service to...
Page 433 - Aristotle says a that it was not for all Athenians, but only for his own demesmen, the Laciadae, that he provided a free dinner. He was constantly attended by young comrades in fine attire, each one of whom, whenever an elderly citizen in needy array came up, was ready to exchange raiment with him. The practice made a deep impression. These same followers also carried...
Page 373 - Rome would lose her empire when she had become infected • with Greek letters. But time has certainly shown the emptiness of this ill-boding speech of his, for ' while the city was at the zenith of its empire,' she made every form of Greek learning and culture her own.
Page 281 - Terrestrial, summons the brave men who died for Hellas to come to the banquet and its copious draughts of blood ; next he mixes a mixer of wine, drinks, and then pours a libation from it, saying these words : " I drink to the men who died for the freedom of the Hellenes.
Page 367 - He required li'is borrowers to form a large company, and when there were fifty partners and as many ships for his security, he took one share in the company himself, and was represented by Quintio, a freedman of his, who accompanied his clients in all their ventures. In this way his entire security was not imperilled,, but only a small part of it, and his profits were large.
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