 | Jan M. Ziolkowski - 1990 - 94 σελίδες
...Museum, which was part of the royal palace, have been described as follows: They had a carefree life: free meals, high salaries, no taxes to pay, very pleasant...surroundings, good lodgings and servants. There was plenty of opportunity for quarrelling with each other/ 5 One might say that the Museum itself was a... | |
 | Peter Green - 1990 - 1006 σελίδες
...serve the Muses. The resident community of scientists, thinkers, and scholars led an enviable life: "free meals, high salaries, no taxes to pay, very pleasant surroundings, good lodgings and servants."34 On the other hand, since they were academics with leisure, and dependent on patronage,... | |
 | Fred Lerner - 2001 - 262 σελίδες
...One modern historian of scholarship describes their situation enviously: "They had a carefree life: free meals, high salaries, no taxes to pay, very pleasant...surroundings, good lodgings and servants. There was plenty of opportunity for quarrelling with each other."3 And they had at their disposal the greatest... | |
 | Anne Curzan, Kimberly Emmons - 2004 - 520 σελίδες
...by a contemporary, has been described as follows: (3) They [the philologists] had a carefree life: free meals, high salaries, no taxes to pay, very pleasant...surroundings, good lodgings and servants. There was plenty of opportunity for quarreling with each other, (cited in Frank 1997: 486) From covering every... | |
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free meals, high salaries, no taxes to pay, very pleasant surroundings, good lodgings and servants", there was, as Pfeiffer remarks, 32 "plenty of opportunity for quarrelling with one another. 