Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes, Historical & Critical; & a Life of Plutarch, 4. kötetJ. Crissy, 1834 |
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Achæans affairs afterwards amongst Antigonus Antony Antony's appeared Aratus Argos Aristomachus arms army Artaxerxes Athenians Athens attended battle brother brought Brutus Cæsar Caius called camp Cassius cavalry Cicero citadel citizens Cleomenes Cleopatra Clodius command consul Corinth Crassus Ctesias Cyrus death decree Demetrius Demosthenes desired despatched Dion Dionysius emperor enemy Erginus favour fear fell fortune friends Fulvius Galba gave give greatest Greece Greeks guard hands honour horse hundred immediately killed king Lacedæmonians Lysimachus Macedonians manner means Nero night occasion Octavius officers orator ordered Otho Parthians Parysatis passed Peloponnesus person Philip Philistus Plato Plutarch Pompey prætor present prince Ptolemy received rest retired Romans Rome Seleucus senate sent Sicily Sicyon slain soldiers soon Sparta spirit suffer sword Syracusans temple thing thought thousand Tiberius tion Tiribazus took tribune troops tyrant victory Vinius virtue Vitellius wife young
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97. oldal - It was not long before the temple of Athens paid him the honours that were due to him, by erecting his statue in brass, and decreeing that the eldest of his family should be maintained in the Prytaneum, at the public charge. This celebrated inscription was put upon the pedestal of his statue:—
81. oldal - the Phalerian gives us an account of the remedies he applied to them; and he says he had it from Demosthenes in his old age. The hesitation and stammering of his tongue, he corrected by practising to speak with pebbles in his mouth; and he strengthened his * A
143. oldal - off a likeness. His countenance had a mixture of grace and dignity, and was at once amiable and awful; and the unsubdued and eager air of youth was blended with the majesty of the hero and the king. There was the same happy mixture in his behaviour, which inspired, at the same time,
305. oldal - no longer solicit my hopes or my fortune, but die contented with it, such as it is. On the ides of March I devoted my life to my country; and since that time I have lived in liberty and glory." At these words Cassius smiled, and, embracing Brutus,
94. oldal - What comfort can I have, when I leave enemies in this city more generous than it seems possible to find friends in any other?" He bore his exile in a very weak and effeminate manner: for the most part, he resided in JEgina or Troezene; where, whenever he looked towards Attica, the tears fell from
79. oldal - the orators ridiculed him; and Pytheas in particular told him,—" That all his arguments smelled of the lamp." Demosthenes retorted sharply upon him,—" Yes, indeed; but your lamp and mine, my friend, are not conscious to the same labours." To others he did not pretend to deny his previous application, but told them,—
149. oldal - the place where their patron first alighted from his chariot, and erected an altar there to DEMETRIUS Catabates. They added two to the number of their tribes, and called them Demetrias and Antigonis; in consequence of which, the senate, which before consisted of five hundred members, was to consist of six hundred; for each tribe supplied fifty.
95. oldal - and Demosthenes lost his life in October.:): It happened in the following manner:—When news was brought that Antipater and Craterus were coming to Athens, Demosthenes and those of his party hastened to get out privately before their arrival. Hereupon, the people, at the motion of Demades, condemned them to death. As they fled different
382. oldal - but destroyed him. Death, therefore, which took him in the flower of his age, was considered, not as a misfortune, but a deliverance. The vengeance, however, of Jupiter, the patron of hospitality and friendship, visited Philip for his breach of both, and pursued him through life: for he was beaten
91. oldal - and that Alexander was the great wolf they had to treat with. And again,—" As we see merchants carrying about a small sample in a dish, by which they sell large quantities of wheat; so you, in us, without knowing it, deliver up the whole body of citizens." These particulars we have from Aristobulus of Cassandria.