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(one) antisthenes, "cynicorum et stoicorum parens." cic. "de or." iii. seventeen; "ad att." xii. thirty eight. see below, three. iii. seventeen; "symp." passim; diog. laert. two. v.; six. i. |
and it was said that it was in order to have time to raise money that he had marched so slowly that he was not present at the former attack. |
instead of setting my hand to do that, i simply led you to a point from which, with least loss of time, i thought you could cross into asia. this i believed was the best thing for you, and you i knew desired it. |
socrates: and he is to be thirsting and drinking? |
the slingers and artillerymen had a position assigned them from which to hurl their missiles at a distance, so that, with equal tumult everywhere, no support might be given from any point to such as were pressed. |
this falling on his head below the helmet, and bruising the vertebrae of the lower part of the neck, stunned and blinded him; his hands let go the reins, and sinking down from his horse, he fell just by the tomb of licymnius. |
island, and the colophonians with the notians. |
sufficient glory for him to be classed among ancient writers. |
sixty eight duo mneai : cp. v. seventy seven. |
everything, sacred or profane, the temple too of tamfana, as they called it, the special resort of all those tribes, was levelled to the ground. there was not a wound among our soldiers, who cut down a half-asleep, an unarmed, or a straggling foe. |
therefore we refuse to listen to the poets who tell us of here begging in the likeness of a priestess or of other deities who prowl about at night in strange disguises; all that blasphemous nonsense with which mothers fool the manhood out of their |
they are cowardly, and are always anticipating danger; unlike that of the young, who are warm-blooded, their temperament is chilly; old age has paved the way for cowardice; fear is, in fact, a form of chill. |
athenian: yes; and under his guidance let us consider a further point. |
but we possess no substantial, life-like image of true law and genuine justice; a mere outline sketch is all that we enjoy. |
of our life: but to dive farther than that, and to have cudgelled my brains in the study of aristotle, the monarch of all modern learning, or particularly addicted myself to any one science, i have never done it; neither is there any one art of which i am |
should the enterprise succeed, and delium be fortified, its authors confidently expected that even if no revolution should immediately follow in boeotia, yet with these places in their hands, and the country being harassed by incursions, and a refuge in |
it is no mere mood of feeling, no mere liability to emotion, no mere natural aptitude or endowment, it is a permanent state of the agent's self, or, as we might in modern phrase put it, of his will, it consists in a steady self-imposed obedience to a rule |
"the world's a mansion that doth all things hold, which thundering zones, in number five, enfold, through which a girdle, painted with twelve signs, and that with sparkling constellations, shines, in heaven's arch marks the diurnal course for the sun's |
aurelius cotta, too, and haterius antonius had yearly stipends assigned them by the emperor, though they had squandered their ancestral wealth in profligacy. |
all the treasure he took with him in his ships to troy-would that he had sooner perished-he will restore, and will add yet further of his own, but he will not give up the wedded wife of menelaus, though the trojans would have him do so. |
against him on behalf of the magistrates, and because of his political principles; lycon, on behalf of the orators; and meletus on behalf of the poets, all of whom socrates used to pull to pieces. |
that is why what comes to us only at long intervals is pleasant, whether it be a person or a thing; for it is a change from what we had before, and, besides, what comes only at long intervals has the value of rarity. |
"ajaxes," said he, "may it now please you to show yourselves the men you have always been, or even better-sarpedon is fallen-he who was first to overleap the wall of the achaeans; let us take the body and outrage it; let us strip the armour from his |
is possible in the present state of our knowledge of its elements. |
wisdom as a constitutional acuteness; whereas a man has it in his power to be just, if he have but the will to be so, and therefore injustice is thought the most dishonorable, because it is least excusable. |
being sometimes facetious and familiar; for besides the reasons i have given, 'tis inhuman and unjust to set so great a value upon this pitiful prerogative of fortune, and the polities wherein less disparity is permitted betwixt masters and servants seem |
their relation according to a commensurate numerical ratio.' 'are the high and the low note concordant?' is equivalent to 'is their ratio commensurate?'; and when we find that it is commensurate, we ask 'what, then, is their ratio?'. |
yes, he said; to that statement i adhere. |
and it is perfectly possible for a good man and a statesman, without being solicitous for superfluities, to show some concern for competent necessaries. |
suspected at the commencement of their rule: some have constructed fortresses, others have ruined and destroyed them. |
as respected the site of his new city, a point which requires the greatest foresight in him who would lay the foundation of a durable commonwealth, he chose the most convenient possible position. |
"so the biforked aufidus, which flows through the realm of the apulian daunus, when raging, threatens a fearful deluge to the tilled ground."--horat., od., iv. fourteen, twenty five. |
macchiavelli dared to declare that italy must become a state, and to assert that "there is no higher duty for a state than to maintain itself, and to punish relentlessly every author of anarchy,-the supreme, and perhaps sole political crime." |
and it may also be affirmed, that experience itself gives a proof of this; for the ancient laws are too simple and barbarous; which allowed the greeks to wear swords in the city, and to buy their wives of each a . other. |
there were three men in each, two of whom disembarked and fell into rank, whilst the third remained. then the one set took the boats and sailed back again, whilst the other two-thirds who remained marshalled themselves in the following way. |
properly be said to be false representations, or ideas of things they do not represent. but the mistake and falsehood is: |
when a man becomes surety, let him give the security in a distinct form, acknowledging the whole transaction in a written document, and in the presence of not less than three witnesses if the sum be under a thousand drachmae, and of not less than five |
every body must have a soul, unless the soul be a different sort of number-other, that is, than the sum of the points existing in a body. |
"whatever hath become perfect, everything mature-wanteth to die!" so sayest thou. blessed, blessed be the vintner's knife! but everything immature wanteth to live: alas! |
the antiquity of love, the blessing of having a lover, the incentive which love offers to daring deeds, the examples of alcestis and achilles, are the chief themes of his discourse. |
"nor do burning fevers quit you sooner if you are stretched on a couch of rich tapestry and in a vest of purple dye, than if you be in a coarse blanket."--idem, ii. thirty four. |
comes to all; ceres, a gerendo , from bearing. how dangerous is this method! for there are many names would puzzle you. from what would you derive vejupiter and vulcan? |
stand very high with the multitude, would be thought guilty of the greatest cowardice and want of manliness. |
impatiently do i then wait, that the clear sky may finally dawn for me, the snow-bearded winter-sky, the hoary one, the whitehead,- |
than could be derived from arguments that such a one has in him 'a principle which does not admit of death.' |
a person of dignity, who would approve to me, by authority, the search of the philosopher's stone, wherein he was head over ears engaged, lately alleged to me at least five or six passages of the bible upon which, he said, he first founded his attempt, |
and they fell upon them in still larger numbers from the desert country above their borders; until at last being hard pressed they left their own land and settled among the budinoi. |
"for a man to conform to such a variety of manners, discourses, and will."--q. cicero, de pet. consul, c. fourteen. |
fifty eight. moreover, it is true also that the egyptians were the first of men who made solemn assemblies fifty five and processions and approaches to the temples, fifty six and from them the hellenes have learnt them, and my evidence for this is that |
five. another line of argument is based on considerations of time. thus iphicrates, in the case against harmodius, said, 'if before doing the deed i had bargained that, if i did it, i should have a statue, you would have given me one. |
theaetetus: at any rate, socrates, after such an exhortation i should be ashamed of not trying to do my best. now he who knows perceives what he knows, and, as far as i can see at present, knowledge is perception. |
"conjugis ante coacta novi dimittere collum, quam veniens una atque altera rursus hyems noctibus in longis avidum saturasset amorem," |
when he had satisfied himself, and observed that his mother volumnia was desirous to say something, the volscian council being first called in, he heard her to the following effect: "our dress and our very persons, my son, might tell you, though we should |
flung himself into the jaws of battle, and he fetched sigh on sigh, thinking ever of patroclus. then he said- |
speaks but at his eyes. short sighs and sobs succeed; till sorrow breaks a passage, and at once he weeps and speaks: |
vast is the throng of these; nor less the train of lustful youths, for foul adult'ry slain: hosts of deserters, who their honour sold, and basely broke their faith for bribes of gold. |
for a while the hounds fly at him as though they would tear him in pieces, but now and again he turns on them in a fury, scaring and scattering them in all directions-even so did the trojans for a while charge in a body, striking with sword and with |
for how can there be wisdom where there is no harmony?--the wise man is the saviour, and he who is devoid of wisdom is the destroyer of states and households. there are rulers and there are subjects in states. |
when the great samian sage his noble problem found, a hundred oxen dyed with their life-blood the ground. |
and there form, as it were, two pouches denominated the auricles of the heart, which are composed of a substance similar to that of the heart itself; and that there is always more warmth in the heart than in any other part of the body--and finally, that |
out of curiosity, i lay down on the ice and looked through the hole, until i saw the axe a little on one side, standing on its head, with its helve erect and gently swaying to and fro with the pulse of the pond; and there it might have stood erect and |
and if at the period of which we were speaking you had persevered to the end of the matter, and had incurred hatred in your command, we are sure that you would have made yourselves just as galling to the allies, and would have been forced to choose |
judge; i shall pronounce the formal sentence in a grave and gentle rather than a furious voice, and shall bid them proceed sixty eight sternly, yet not angrily. |
were drawn up and the ruins of their houses. |
the general who has attained a responsible post must be careful to study them. |
all which conceits come now into my head, by the remembrance of a story was told me by a domestic apothecary of my father's, a blunt swiss, a nation not much addicted to vanity and lying, of a merchant he had long known at toulouse, who being a |
him; and these inferences will all be founded in experience and observation. |
speaker, before any system of rhythm for the sake of tickling the ears was invented. |
no mention occurs in the laws of the doctrine of ideas. the will of god, the authority of the legislator, and the dignity of the soul, have taken their place in the mind of plato. |
better remedy than patience assurance they give us of the certainty of their drugs at least, if they do no good, they will do no harm attribute to itself; all the happy successes that happen best part of a captain to know how to make use of occasions |
and as the fact of a private individual becoming a prince presupposes either great ability or good fortune, it would appear that either of these things would mitigate in part many difficulties. |
in the passage of his army over it, he met with no opposition; the suevi themselves, who are the most warlike people of all germany, flying with their effects into the deepest and most densely wooded valleys. |
to eat little at night, to the end that the waters they are to drink the next morning may have a better operation upon an empty stomach; on the other hand, it is better to eat little at dinner, that it hinder not the operation of the waters, while it is |
we are not therefore surprized to find that plato himself has nowhere clearly explained his doctrine of ideas; or that his school in a later generation, like his contemporaries glaucon and adeimantus, were unable to follow him in this region of |
thus generated, react in turn upon the moral feelings of the members of the ascendant class, in their relations among themselves. |
their husbands and their fathers, some with their young babes in their arms, others their hair loose about their ears, but all calling, now upon the sabines, now upon the romans, in the most tender and endearing words. |
and when he has done this, then i will that he shall be discharged of all debts due from him to me or to my estate. and if any profit shall accrue to him in chalcis, from property belonging to me, it shall be all his own. |
and because such felicity in others, is not sensible but by comparison with their own actuall miseries; it followeth that they are to suffer such bodily paines, and calamities, as are incident to those, who not onely live under evill and cruell |
"admireth all; for which to be admired; and inconsiderately himself desir'd. the praises which he gives his beauty claim'd, who seeks is sought, th' inflamer is inflam'd:" |
soldiers, an imposing and formidable aspect. |
am i to call you soldiers, you who have beset with entrenchments and arms your general's son, or citizens, when you have trampled under foot the authority of the senate? |
an intuition viz., a visual sense-perception is such a representation as immediately depends upon the presence of the object. |
there is a faint trace, among the fragments of aeschylus, of a play called thalamopoioi ,-i.e. the preparers of the chamber ,-which may well have referred to this tragic scene. |
and immediate universal actuality at the same time exist as moral usage, manner and custom,-where self-conscious liberty has become nature . |
my contemporaries, however, have failed to grasp the full meaning of his instructions, and while putting into practice the smaller details in which his work abounds, they have overlooked its essential purport. |
-from the powerful soul, to which the high body appertaineth, the handsome, triumphing, refreshing body, around which everything becometh a mirror: |
though the kinds of soveraigntie be, as i have now shewn, but three; that is to say, monarchie, where one man has it; or democracie, where the generall assembly of subjects hath it; or aristocracie, where it is in an assembly of certain persons nominated, |
and in case the master, if he refuse, kill him, or cast him into bonds, or otherwise punish him for his disobedience, he is himselfe the author of the same; and cannot accuse him of injury. |
you mean when money is not wanted, but allowed to lie? |
country. he himself sent forward canidius, one of his friends, to cyprus, to persuade ptolemy to yield, without being forced; which if he did, he should want neither riches nor honor, for the romans would give him the priesthood of the goddess at paphos. |
and this is confirmed by the facts; for it was when almost all the necessities of life and the things that make for comfort and recreation had been secured, that such knowledge began to be sought. |
the brighter a fire glows, the sooner it goes out: it lasts longer when it is made up with bad and slowly burning fuel, and shows a dull light through a cloud of smoke: its being poorly fed one hundred ninety nine makes it linger all the longer. |
while thus their factious minds with fury burn, the legates from th' aetolian prince return: sad news they bring, that, after all the cost and care employ'd, their embassy is lost; that diomedes refus'd his aid in war, unmov'd with presents, and as deaf |
that argument, which, as i believe, is maintained by many persons of authority, was to the effect, as i was saying, that the opinions of some men are to be regarded, and of other men not to be regarded. |
so also (apocalypse nineteen.thirteen.) the apostle speaking of christ, clothed in a garment dipt in bloud, saith; his name is "the word of god;" which is to be understood, as if he had said his name had been, "he that was come according to the purpose of |
and before i make him any reply on the other topics of his speech, i will say a few words; respecting the friendship formerly subsisting between us, which he has accused me of violating,--for that i consider a most serious charge. |
poor success on the stage. even agathon has been known to fail from this one defect. |
he, servius sulpicius, has often been of great service to the republic, both as a private individual and in the discharge of various magistracies; and as he, being such a man, has encountered death on behalf of the republic while employed on an |
they wish him to exercise these qualities on the people so that they may get double pay and give vent to their avarice and cruelty. |
tell me, muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide, after he had sacked the sacred citadel of troy, and many were the men whose towns he saw and whose mind he learnt, yea, and many the woes he suffered in his heart on the deep, |
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