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seventy two. these obtained the most renown of those who fought at plataia, for as for callicrates, the most beautiful who came to the camp, not of the lacedemonians alone, but also of all the hellenes of his time, he was not killed in the battle itself; |
same reason); and so on (for the same reason) to infinity. q.e.five hundred. |
considering there are so few, if, any at all, whom we can believe when speaking of others, where there is less interest to lie. |
in the faith of a christian, who is the person beleeved |
now, by those holy vows, so late begun, by this right hand, (since i have nothing more to challenge, but the faith you gave before;) i beg you by these tears too truly shed, by the new pleasures of our nuptial bed; if ever dido, when you most were kind, |
matter is present, and one part of the thing is matter and the other form. |
for metaphysics has to deal only with principles and with the limitations of its own employment as determined by these principles. to this perfection it is, therefore, bound, as the fundamental science, to attain, and to it the maxim may justly be applied: |
and controlling power, a tendency or nisus to be and live, which is persistent and potent, but without consciousness. |
for demosthenes's oratory was without all embellishment and jesting, wholly composed for real effect and seriousness; not smelling of the lamp, as pytheas scoffingly said, but of the temperance, thoughtfulness, austerity, and grave earnestness of his |
perhaps i do; and therefore it is that i accuse my own impatience, and hold, in the first place, that it is equally vicious both in him that is in the right, and in him that is in the wrong; for 'tis always a tyrannic sourness not to endure a form |
but when it comes to real fighting with an opponent who stands his ground, they are not what they seemed; they have no regular order that they should be ashamed of deserting their positions when hard pressed; flight and attack are with them equally |
and as we have a way of sporting that is carried on more by subtlety than force, as springing hares, and angling with line and hook, there is also the like amongst other animals. |
for man is begotten by man, a given man by an individual father; and similarly in the arts; for the medical art is the formal cause of health. |
or can any one be angry without a perturbation of mind? our people, then, were in the right, who, as all vices depend on our manners, and nothing is worse than a passionate disposition, called angry men the only morose men. fifty one |
gold that was used in the work about the statue, that they might take it all off and make out the just weight of it, which pericles at that time bade the accusers do. |
i will do my best, replied socrates. but you must first let me hear what crito wants; he has long been wishing to say something to me. |
and that no symptoms of suicide were discovered on her person. |
shalt thou dispute with him the points of liberty, who made thee what thou art, and formed the powers of heaven such as he pleased, and circumscribed their being? |
socrates: the words of the wise are not to be set aside; for there is probably something in them; and therefore the meaning of this saying is not hastily to be dismissed. |
besides this, when they were out of their way, and were wandering up and down, because the marks which were wont to direct the guides were disordered and lost, they were set right again by some ravens, which flew before them when on their march, and |
soc. upon my word! how are you to teach them that? far more easily, i take it, than if you had to teach them that bad things are better than good, and more advantageous to boot. |
or when they are on a voyage, amid the perils of the sea? |
and what happens? if he do nothing else, and holds no converse with the muses, does not even that intelligence which there may be in him, having no taste of any sort of learning or enquiry or thought or culture, grow feeble and dull and blind, his mind |
singing martial facts excel; you best remember, and alone can tell. |
the operations of cold upon water are not gradual, according to the degrees of cold; but whenever it comes to the freezing point, the water passes in a moment, from the utmost liquidity to perfect hardness. |
sulla is poor, and hence comes his surpassing audacity; he shams apathy, while he is seeking an opening for his reckless ambition. |
i am writing treatises on augural, pontifical, and civil law. |
thought that this would happen again, at least on land; nor, when they looked to the sea, could they descry any hope of salvation; for they were attacked by a thousand vessels and more. |
"obesse non potest, quin ejusdem hominis sit, probos improbare, qui improbos probet." |
well, but you would admit (he answered) that sound argument does frequently bring down the ridicule of the popular assembly. |
polus: does rhetoric seem to you to be an experience? |
thou dost now experience and possess, forty four or to inherit the power and wealth which i possess now, by being submissive to thy father's will? |
free themselves from a prudent loathing of the restlessness, emptiness, and noisy wranglings of the essentially politics-practising nations;--supposing such a statesman were to stimulate the slumbering passions and avidities of his people, were to make a |
what had happened. thus, as phanodemus relates, the grecian army was, as it were, conducted by cimon, thirty days after he was dead. |
them, and especially such as are of good counsel, so that they may honour you in prosperity and in adversity you have not to fear them. |
pity overcame him; and he sank down all at once, like an oak that hath long withstood many tree-fellers,-heavily, suddenly, to the terror even of those who meant to fell it. but immediately he got up again from the ground, and his countenance became stern. |
yes, i said, my impression was that you did so, when you admitted that the ruler was not infallible but might be sometimes mistaken. |
artemisium--for i may as well put them both together--made them no better, if one may say so without offence about the battles which helped to save us. |
then he laid low, one after the other, erymas, amphoterus, epaltes, tlepolemus, echius son of damastor, pyris, ipheus, euippus and polymelus son of argeas. |
apronius entrusted the rest of the auxiliaries to cethegus labeo, the commander of the fifth legion, but he too, finding his men's position critical and being in extreme peril, sent messages imploring the whole strength of the legions. |
est autem, quod differat in hominum ratione habenda inter iustitiam et verecundiam. iustitiae partes sunt non violare homines, verecundiae non offendere; in quo maxime vis perspicitur decori. |
all rode together, that they might if possible recover the body.. |
the syracusans received them, and charging prow to prow as they had intended, stove in a great part of the athenian foreships by the strength of their beaks; the darters on the decks also did great damage to the athenians, but still greater damage was |
fifty five. sixth comes the river hypakyris, which starts from a lake, and flowing through the midst of the nomad scythians runs out into the sea by the city of carkinitis, skirting on its right bank the region of hylaia and the so-called racecourse of |
but hermippus says, that after the death of cassander, he feared the enmity of antigonus, and on that account fled to ptolemy soter; and that he remained at his court for a long time, and, among other pieces of advice, counselled the king to make over the |
there is a plentiful lack of men so endowed, and it is difficult to form a judgment without testing. |
contingent way, they must also, for the very rejection of them, pay attention to the latter. |
three hundred three. whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected. |
anything of that sort; and he who by doing ill cannot become a physician at all, clearly cannot become a bad physician. |
for no man is obliged by a covenant, whereof he is not author; nor consequently by a covenant made against, or beside the authority he gave. |
eleven. if the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away. |
this work seeming to me to be too beautiful and too rich for an author whose name is so little known, and of whom all that we know is that he was a spaniard, practising physic at toulouse about two hundred years ago; i enquired of adrian turnebus, who |
he drove so rapidly, that when he first left rome, he arrived at the river rhone within eight days. |
companion: i see, apollodorus, that you are just the same--always speaking evil of yourself, and of others; and i do believe that you pity all mankind, with the exception of socrates, yourself first of all, true in this to your old name, which, however |
after this, upon a second complaint of the thessalians against alexander of pherae, as a disturber of the cities, pelopidas was joined with ismenias, in an embassy to him; but led no forces from thebes, not expecting any war, and therefore was |
and dispersed them about the city. no sooner were these defeated, but erginus came to them from those that were fighting above, to acquaint them that aratus was engaged with the enemy, who defended themselves very stoutly, and there was a fierce conflict |
the spindle turned on the knees of necessity, and a siren stood hymning upon each circle, while lachesis, clotho, and atropos, the daughters of necessity, sat on thrones at equal intervals, singing of past, present, and future, responsive to the music of |
fulgur ibi ad coelum se tollit, totaque circum re renidescit tellus, subterque virum vi excitur pedibus sonitus, clamoreque montes icti rejectant voces ad sidera mundi; |
but then being strangely puffed up, and his head heated, he would not limit his fortune with parthia and syria; but looking on the actions of lucullus against tigranes and the exploits of pompey against mithridates as but child's play, he proposed to |
and out of this state of things have arisen arts and laws, and a great deal of virtue and a great deal of vice; little by little the world has come to be what it is. |
you gave me thirteen pear trees, ten apple trees, and forty fig trees; you also said you would give me fifty rows of vines; there was corn planted between each row, and they yield grapes of every kind when the heat of heaven has been laid heavy upon them." |
qu'on devoit le juger, en envoyoit des le matin a la porte de sa maison un officier i'appeller au son de la trompette, et jamais avant que cette ceremonie eut ete observee, les juges ne donneroient leur voix contre lui: tant ces hommes sages,' ajoute ce |
a little before, indeed, he had shown a desire to speak to his wife, and had told her, with as gay a countenance as he could contrive to assume, that he had a story to tell her. |
think not, revolted spirit, thy shape the same, or undiminished brightness to be known, as when thou stoodest in heaven upright and pure; that glory then, when thou no more wast good, departed from thee; and thou resemblest now thy sin and place of doom |
the "accustomed irony" of socrates adds a corollary to the argument:-"would you punish your enemy, you should allow him to escape unpunished"-this is the true retaliation. |
and when we, on certain occasions, fall in with more sumptuous fare, it makes us in a better disposition towards it, and renders us fearless with respect to fortune. |
with the "iliad" as we now have it, borrowing as freely from those books whose genuineness has been most impugned, as from those which are admitted to be by homer-any one who fails to keep these points before his readers, is hardly dealing equitably by |
sixteen. hence the saying: the enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. |
women? the better pleasures gained in successful action and effort leave the baser appetites no time or place, and make active and heroic men forget them. |
now cast by fortune on this kindred land, what should our rest and rising walls withstand, or hinder here to fix our banish'd band? o country lost, and gods redeem'd in vain, if still in endless exile we remain! |
exactness of judgment, and clearness of reason, which is to be observed in one man above another. |
of holinesse there be degrees: for of those things that are set apart for the service of god, there may bee some set apart again, for a neerer and more especial service. |
another harmony within her, and that the vicious soul is inharmonical and has no harmony within her? |
socrates: and the women too, meno, call good men divine--do they not? and the spartans, when they praise a good man, say 'that he is a divine man.' |
the senate remitted the whole matter to camillus, to judge and order as he thought fit; who, taking a sum of money of the falerians, and, making a peace with the whole nation of the faliscans, returned home. |
the hellenes advancing to the rescue. then they turned round and made off, first cutting off the heads of the dead men and flaunting them in the face of the hellenes and of their own private foes, dancing the while and singing in a measured strain. |
since, if the ideas which made up those truths were not, it was impossible that the propositions made up of them should be innate, or our knowledge of them be born with us. |
all pressing on, pursuers and pursued, are crush'd in crowds, a mingled multitude. some happy few escape: the throng too late rush on for entrance, till they choke the gate. |
they say that non-existent things are objects of thought and desire, but not that they are moved; and this because, while ex hypothesi they do not actually exist, they would have to exist actually if they were moved. |
what monstrous animal is this, that is a horror to himself, to whom his delights are grievous, and who weds himself to misfortune? there are people who conceal their life: |
hence such judgements may be obviously false, and yet, taken problematically, be conditions of our cognition of the truth. |
commanded them to be given. for no man ought to have pre-eminent honour in a state because he surpasses others in wealth, any more than because he is swift of foot or fair or strong, unless he have some virtue in him; nor even if he have virtue, unless he |
now in this third, this mediating term, the essential form of which consists in the synthetical unity of the apperception of all phenomena, we found a priori conditions of the universal and necessary determination as to time of all existences in the world |
t such as the esteem and good-will of fellow-citizens; life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; the existence of the state and all the advantages it brings. |
french did not understand politics, for if they did they would never allow the church to become so great. and experience shows us that the greatness in italy of the church and also of spain have been caused by france, and her ruin has proceeded from them. |
reason here seems to be thrown into a kind of amazement and suspence, which, without the suggestions of any sceptic, gives her a diffidence of herself, and of the ground on which she treads. |
one hundred twenty five. the absurdity of these bold determinations of the abstract sciences seems to become, if possible, still more palpable with regard to time than extension. |
fancy. and these are the images which are originally and most properly called ideas, and idols, and derived from the language of the graecians, with whom the word eido signifieth to see. |
the spangled heavens should be used as a pattern and with a view to that higher knowledge; their beauty is like the beauty of figures or pictures excellently wrought by the hand of daedalus, or some other great artist, which we may chance to behold; any |
but if corporeall be taken in the most vulgar manner, for such substances as are perceptible by our externall senses; then is substance incorporeall, a thing not imaginary, but reall; namely, a thin substance invisible, but that hath the same dimensions |
according to the sun's approach towards us; that summer is the effect of the air above the earth being warmed by the approach of the sun towards the north; that autumn is caused by the retreat of the sun from us ... to those places from which they flow. |
the cave is not far from the sea; a small and insignificant looking opening in the cliffs conducts you in; when you are entered, a wonderfully high roof spreads above you, and large chambers open out one beyond another, nor does it lack either water or |
a king may also if he please, sit in judgment, to hear and determine all manner of causes, as well as give others authority to doe it in his name; but that the charge that lyeth upon him of command and government, constrain him to bee continually at the |
and so in the case of physicians: if their patient dies against their will, they shall be held guiltless by the law. |
socrates: well, polus, since you would rather have the answer from me, i say that they are good when they are just, and evil when they are unjust. |
i have seen some who have taken it ill when they have been told that they looked well, and that their pulse was good; restrain their smiles, because they betrayed a recovery, and be angry, at their health because it was not to be lamented: and, which is a |
but we can see often enough something that is even still worse. i mean a carter walking alone, and without any horses, through the streets incessantly cracking his whip. |
named cabiri, and in that of minerva at lindus, where also there was a statue of him, says posidonius, with the following inscription: |
neither are the following meditations to be slightly passed over, but with diligence and attention to be read; for as in mathematical demonstration, the careless missing of any one single position may render the conclusion obscure and sometimes |
he ceas'd; and old alethes took the word: "our country gods, in whom our trust we place, will yet from ruin save the trojan race, while we behold such dauntless worth appear in dawning youth, and souls so void of fear." |
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