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thirty nine thirteen. atque etiam si quid singuli temporibus adducti hosti promiserunt, est in eo ipso fides conservanda, ut primo punico bello regulus captus a poenis cum de captivis commutandis romam missus esset iurassetque se rediturum, primum, ut |
liberties; but, if this could not be done, at any rate to impede and disturb the persians in all engagements. he hoped that these writings would prevail with the ionians to revolt, or raise some trouble by making their fidelity doubtful to the persians. |
others drew very little water with them; all the rivers, as is usual in summer, ran in a very low and hollow channel. |
she still prolonged her tears and idle complaints, till the gates were forced open by the rush of the new comers, and there stood at her side the tribune, sternly silent, and the freedman, overwhelming her with the copious insults of a servile tongue. |
his courage and gallantry. and many of the macedonians flocked to see what sort of person eumenes was, for since the death of craterus, no man had been so much talked of in the army. |
this only, to demonstrate the possibility of experience as a cognition in which at last all objects must be capable of being presented to us, if the representation of them is to possess any objective reality. |
the rights of soveraignty the same in both |
at ille, ut ingressus est, confestim gladium destrinxit iuravitque se illum statim interfecturum, nisi ius iurandum sibi dedisset se patrem missum esse facturum. |
the germans whom success rendered unwearied, without even then taking any rest, turned all the streams which rose from the slopes of the surrounding hills into the lands beneath. |
event from the other; which we are enabled to do at present, after so long a course of uniform experience. i know not whether the reader will readily apprehend this reasoning. |
ethical studies may fairly be called political; and for this reason rhetoric masquerades as political science, and the professors of it as political experts-sometimes from want of education, sometimes from ostentation, sometimes owing to other human |
if one hundred and g are identical, a must belong to some of the es: for a follows one hundred, and e follows all g. |
corollary.--hence it follows that the mind shrinks from conceiving those things, which diminish or constrain the power of itself and of the body. |
nor are you a man who take no delight in anything except civil law; and since this treatise is dedicated to you, though not so exclusively but that it will also come into the hands of other people, we must take pains to be as serviceable as possible to |
cleinias: how? in the first place, the earth and the sun, and the stars and the universe, and the fair order of the seasons, and the division of them into years and months, furnish proofs of their existence, and also there is the fact that all hellenes |
at that time, it was to win a throne for cyrus that you showed your bravery; to-day, when the struggle is for your own salvation, what is more natural than that you should show yourselves braver and more zealous still. |
athenian: during this period, and for some time afterwards, all the arts which require iron and brass and the like would disappear. |
still or walking; and you care not for cold, nor do you long for breakfast time, nor e'er give in to hunger; but wine and gluttony you shun, and all such kind of follies. |
was the object of contention between him and the scipios and marii. |
i can give no account of my life by my actions; fortune has placed them too low: i must do it by my fancies. |
then again a man looks for respect from those who he thinks owe him good treatment, and these are the people whom he has treated or is treating well, or means or has meant to treat well, either himself, or through his friends, or through others at his |
staggering in their blood on the slippery marsh, they shook off their riders, driving hither and thither all in their way, and trampling on the fallen. |
"what do you mean, telemachus," replied antinous, "by this swaggering talk? if all the suitors were to give him as much as i will, he would not come here again for another three months." |
but in the other case, i mean when they speak of justice and injustice, piety and impiety, they are confident that in nature these have no existence or essence of their own--the truth is that which is agreed on at the time of the agreement, and as long as |
hence it comes that, at any rate, we desire to be rid of the present evil, which we are apt to think nothing absent can equal; because, under the present pain, we find not ourselves capable of any the least degree of happiness. |
to track the hunter if he can find him, for he is mad with rage-even so with many a sigh did achilles speak among the myrmidons saying, "alas! |
have committed, and at enmity with those passions that seduced us to offend her; neither the gods nor good men (says plato) will accept the present of a wicked man: |
some, in their discourse, desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true; as if it were a praise, to know what might be said, and not, what should be thought. |
among philosophers, david hume came the nearest of all to this problem; yet it never acquired in his mind sufficient precision, nor did he regard the question in its universality. |
the achaeans, though in council there are better than i. |
note) a transition to a greater perfection; therefore the image of pleasure in the object of love helps the mental endeavour of the lover; that is, it affects the lover pleasurably, and so much the more, in proportion as this emotion may have been greater |
contentment, which is in the lover, on account of the presence of the beloved object, whereby the pleasure of the lover is strengthened, or at least maintained. |
in so far as they are considered as sensuous phenomena. the sphere of phenomena is the only sphere of their validity, and if we venture out of this, no further objective use can be made of them. |
as soon as the heavy infantry had arrived, he ordered each captain to form his company, in whatever way he hoped to make it most effective in the coming struggle. |
but since it is impossible that contradictory propositions should both be true of the same subject, it follows that' it may not be' is not the contradictory of 'it may be'. |
ocean as far as the river amisia. his fleet remained there on the left bank of the stream, and it was a blunder that he did not have it brought up the river. |
came to his assistance. resolving, therefore, first to set upon those that had mutinied and encamped apart, whom caius cannicius and castus commanded, he sent six thousand men before to secure a little eminence, and to do it as privately as possible, |
with broken words i made this brief reply: 'all of me that remains appears in sight; i live, if living be to loathe the light. no phantom; but one drag a wretched life, my fate resembling that of hector's wife. |
passages, and one amongst the rest, that count egmont (upon the security of whose word and faith count horn had come and surrendered himself to the duke of alva) earnestly entreated that he might first mount the scaffold, to the end that death might |
the athenians were the first who gave antigonus and demetrius the title of kings, which hitherto they had made it a point of piety to decline, as the one remaining royal honor still reserved for the lineal descendants of philip and alexander, in which |
for diogenes of ptolemais begins with ethics; but apollodorus places ethics second; and pantius and posidonius begin with natural philosophy, as phanias, the friend of posidonius asserts, in the first book of his treatise on the school of posidonius. |
is it not because he returns, in this, to his primitive state; and that, while the brute, which has acquired nothing and has therefore nothing to lose, still retains the force of instinct, man, who loses, by age or accident, all that his perfectibility |
to have nothing in common is evidently impossible, for society itself is one species of a community; and the first thing necessary thereunto is a common place of habitation, namely the city, which must be one, and this every citizen must have a share in. |
a man must, therefore, make more early provision for it; and this brutish negligence, could it possibly lodge in the brain of any man of sense (which i think utterly impossible), sells us its merchandise too dear. |
indeed to neglect surrounding a city with a wall would be similar to choosing a country which is easy of access to an enemy, or levelling the eminences of it; or as if an individual should not have a wall to his house lest it should be thought that the |
hem them in with a wall, resolving to master them and take the town, rather with some cost and time, than with the wounds and hazards of his citizens. |
and so now it happened that the city, distracted into two factions, allowed free course to the most impudent and profligate persons, among whom was hyperbolus of the perithoedae, one who could not, indeed, be said to be presuming upon any power, but |
the opinion that any monarch receiveth his power by covenant, that is to say on condition, proceedeth from want of understanding this easie truth, that covenants being but words, and breath, have no force to oblige, contain, constrain, or protect any man, |
all these things they treated as his fault, not knowing that having once put the reins into antigonus's hands, and let himself be borne by the impetus of regal power, he was no longer master of anything but one single voice, the liberty of which it was |
the political and moral investigations, therefore, to which the important question before us leads, are in every respect useful; while the hypothetical history of governments affords a lesson equally instructive to mankind. |
states; but every one of them is subject to that common-wealth, whereof he is himself a member; and consequently, cannot be subject to the commands of any other person. |
well, chaerephon, as you know, was very impetuous in all his doings, and he went to delphi and boldly asked the oracle to tell him whether-as i was saying, i must beg you not to interrupt-he asked the oracle to tell him whether anyone was wiser than i |
socrates: and will you also do me the favour of saying whether man is an animal? |
behold then all human faculties developed, memory and imagination in full play, egoism interested, reason active, and the mind almost at the highest point of its perfection. |
the athenian was a nobler form of life than that of their rivals, a life of music as well as of gymnastic, the life of a citizen as well as of a soldier. such is the picture which thucydides has drawn of the athenians in their glory. |
and in like manner, we call those subjects with which oratorical science and ability is conversant the materials of the art of rhetoric. and these subjects some have considered more numerous, and others less so. |
produced in men), and as to their diet, it is as follows:-they eat bread, making loaves of maize, which they call kyllestis, and they use habitually a wine made out of barley, for vines they have not in their land. |
some procure themselves, to be surprised, at such times as it is like the party that they work upon, will suddenly come upon them; and to be found with a letter in their hand, or doing somewhat which they are not accustomed; to the end, they may be |
for everything that is true must in every respect agree with itself first then we must attempt to select the two premisses of the syllogism (for it is easier to divide into large parts than into small, and the composite parts are larger than the elements |
the eagle let go her hold; she did not succeed in taking it home to her little ones, and so will it be-with ourselves; even though by a mighty effort we break through the gates and wall of the achaeans, and they give way before us, still we shall not |
reason, or from something men beleeve already. |
when opinion by the help of reason leads us to the best, the conquering principle is called temperance; but when desire, which is devoid of reason, rules in us and drags us to pleasure, that power of misrule is called excess. |
--and when i closely examine the most glorious exploits of war, i perceive, methinks, that those who carry them on make use of counsel and debate only for custom's sake, and leave the best part of the enterprise to fortune, and relying upon her aid, |
but we cannot read the politics without recognising and profiting from the insight into the nature of the state which is revealed throughout. |
you must fight, or fly for your lives; and fly, not a man of you shall." |
but the envy and detraction of the world, which has been the death of many good men, and will probably be the death of many more; there is no danger of my being the last of them. |
for what concerns his eloquence, that is totally out of all comparison, and i believe it will never be equalled. |
which he seems ambitious in the sky an everlasting knot of stars to tie. near him the ram, with wreathed horns, is placed; |
alive and when released from the body. and whenever the soul receives more of good or evil from her own energy and the strong influence of others--when she has communion with divine virtue and becomes divine, she is carried into another and better place, |
set out for kyrnos: one hundred sixty five for in kyrnos twenty years before this they had established a city named alalia, in accordance with an oracle, (now arganthonios by that time was dead). |
i cannot certainly conceive a method better calculated to excite hatred and repulsion than to go to some one who knows that he is small and ugly and a weakling, and to breathe in his ears the flattering tale that he is beautiful and tall and stalwart. |
ninety seven-one hundred ten; one hundred seventy seven-one hundred ninety one. |
on brazen steps the marble threshold rose, and brazen plates the cedar beams inclose: the rafters are with brazen cov'rings crown'd; the lofty doors on brazen hinges sound. |
and that is a greater good which would be chosen by a better man, either absolutely, or in virtue of his being better: for instance, to suffer wrong rather than to do wrong, for that would be the choice of the juster man. |
beneficence and justice and holiness were in the same proportion. i need hardly repeat what he said concerning young children dying almost as soon as they were born. |
them he departed. she then, when her sons had been born and had grown to be men, gave them names first, calling one of them agathyrsos and the next gelonos and the youngest skythes; then bearing in mind the charge given to her, she did that which was |
the fury laid aside her looks and limbs, and with new methods tried the foulness of th' infernal form to hide. |
dost not see what infamy high position brings upon the bad? surely their unworthiness will be less conspicuous if their rank does not draw upon them the public notice! |
it was remarked that mitylene had revolted without being, like the rest, subjected to the empire; and what above all swelled the wrath of the athenians was the fact of the peloponnesian fleet having ventured over to ionia to her support, a fact which was |
this fiery speech inflames his fearful friends: they tug at ev'ry oar, and ev'ry stretcher bends; they run their ships aground; the vessels knock, (thus forc'd ashore,) and tremble with the shock. |
and in the same way, of evils, some are final, and some efficient, and some partake of both natures. |
at night there was never a traveller passed my house, or knocked at my door, more than if i were the first or last man; unless it were in the spring, when at long intervals some came from the village to fish for pouts,-they plainly fished much more in the |
and to speak in all seriousness, i see such new philosophers beginning to appear. |
and to do all this sincerely from the heart |
what further i mean, when i speak of the imitation of enemies, i will illustrate by the story of minos, if our cretan friend will allow me to mention it. |
hands slain my wife and children to rescue them from the desolation of this ruin, i am denied to die the death of my fellow-citizens, let me borrow from virtue vengeance on this hated life," and therewithal drawing a short sword he carried concealed about |
"justa pari premitur veluti cum pondere libra, prona, nec hac plus pane sedet, nec surgit ab illa." |
geometer propounds as a theorem they have always perceived to be the fact, and, consequently, although it be not necessarily true, yet they would permit us to expect it to be true in the future. |
day and night, on those rocks and promontories he would incessantly exclaim that he was himself responsible for this awful ruin, and friends scarce restrained him from seeking death in the same sea. |
of the mangling their limbs, and of the feast that is to be made, where their carcass is to be the only dish. |
he has made us of a stature tall and upright, in order that we might behold the heavens, and so arrive at the knowledge of the gods; for men are not simply to dwell here as inhabitants of the earth, but to be, as it were, spectators of the heavens and the |
if he happen to be wounded in a mortal part, and that he immediately dies, 'tis held a certain argument of divine favour; but if he escapes, he is looked upon as a wicked and execrable wretch, and another is dismissed after the same manner in his stead. |
meanwhile, at the beginning of this year, drusus, one of the children of germanicus, assumed the dress of manhood, with a repetition of the honours decreed by the senate to his brother nero. |
the lot being cast, and theseus having received out of the prytaneum those upon whom it fell, he went to the delphinium, and made an offering for them to apollo of his suppliant's badge, which was a bough of a consecrated olive tree, with white wool tied |
you have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. |
perhaps to shepherds of flocks. for as we acknowledge the world to be full of many goods and also of evils, and of more evils than goods, there is, as we affirm, an immortal conflict going on among us, which requires marvellous watchfulness; and in that |
'tis true that in the evening i begin to find a little disturbance and weakness in my sight if i read, an exercise i have always found troublesome, especially by night. |
tell me what there is of this nature among you:--what is there which makes your citizen equally brave against pleasure and pain, conquering what they ought to conquer, and superior to the enemies who are most dangerous and nearest home? |
particular form of government which is established in any state: thus in a democracy the supreme power is lodged in the whole people; on the contrary, in an oligarchy it is in the hands of a few. |
panaetius. sed ad propositum revertamur. |
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