Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, 3-4. kötet1810 |
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10. oldal
... arrival , he offered sacrifice before he embarked : and the soothsayer is said to have told him , " That Heaven an- nounced the noblest success , superior to all his hopes . " Elevated with this promise , he set sail , and having a fair ...
... arrival , he offered sacrifice before he embarked : and the soothsayer is said to have told him , " That Heaven an- nounced the noblest success , superior to all his hopes . " Elevated with this promise , he set sail , and having a fair ...
11. oldal
... arrival in Africa , Metellus was quite over- come with grief and resentment , to think that when he had as it were finished the war , and there remained nothing to take but the person of Jugurtha , Marius who had raised himself merely ...
... arrival in Africa , Metellus was quite over- come with grief and resentment , to think that when he had as it were finished the war , and there remained nothing to take but the person of Jugurtha , Marius who had raised himself merely ...
21. oldal
... arrived from Pessinus Batabaces , the priest of [ Cybele ] the Mother of the gods , with an account that the goddess had declared from her sanctuary , " That the Romans would soon obtain a signal and glorious victory . " The senate gave ...
... arrived from Pessinus Batabaces , the priest of [ Cybele ] the Mother of the gods , with an account that the goddess had declared from her sanctuary , " That the Romans would soon obtain a signal and glorious victory . " The senate gave ...
29. oldal
... arrival every one expected that he would have a triumph , and the senate readily passed a decree for that purpose ... arrived , he crossed the Po , with a design to keep the barbarians from penetrating into the interior parts of Italy ...
... arrival every one expected that he would have a triumph , and the senate readily passed a decree for that purpose ... arrived , he crossed the Po , with a design to keep the barbarians from penetrating into the interior parts of Italy ...
50. oldal
... arrived at a port of Tuscany called Telamon , and as soon as he was landed proclaimed liberty to the slaves . The name of Marius brought down numbers of freemen likewise , and husbandmen and shepherds to the shore ; the ablest of whom ...
... arrived at a port of Tuscany called Telamon , and as soon as he was landed proclaimed liberty to the slaves . The name of Marius brought down numbers of freemen likewise , and husbandmen and shepherds to the shore ; the ablest of whom ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Achæans action Æmilius affairs afterward Alcibiades Annibal Antigonus appeared Aristides arms army Athenians Athens attacked barbarians battle body Boeotia brought called camp Cato cavalry Cimbri Cimon collegue command consul consulship Crassus danger death defeated Demetrius despatched dreadful embassadors endeavoured enemy enemy's engaged Epaminondas expedition favour fell fight Flaminius fleet forces fortune friends gained Gauls gave give Grecian Greece Greeks Gylippus hands honour horse hundred killed king Lacedæmonians likewise Livy Lucullus Lysander Macedon Macedonians manner Marcellus marched Mardonius Marius Metellus Mithridates Nicias occasion officers oracle Parthians passed Pausanias Pelopidas Perseus Persians person Philopomen Plutarch Polybius Pompey present prisoners Pyrrhus received Romans Rome sail says Scipio senate sent Sertorius ships Sicily slain soldiers soon Spartans Surena sword Sylla Syracusans temple Thebans Themistocles thing thousand Tigranes tion took town triumph troops tyrant utmost valour victory whole young
Népszerű szakaszok
337. oldal - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait : Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost : He comes : nor want nor cold his course delay.
336. oldal - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
353. oldal - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
23. oldal - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
126. oldal - But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
45. oldal - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is cursed indeed; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and heaven.
119. oldal - And, in truth, all the rest of the Syracusans were no more than the body in the batteries of Archimedes, while he himself was the informing soul. All other weapons lay idle and unemployed ; his were the only offensive and defensive arms of the city.
337. oldal - On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, 'And all be mine beneath the polar sky.' The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, not want and cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day...
119. oldal - ... of mathematical knowledge, that, though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man" endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to mechanics, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid, and placed his whole delight in those intellectual speculations, which, without any relation to the necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from...
197. oldal - A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.