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Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Achæans Achilles Agrippina Alcibiades Alexander Amasis Amasis II arms army Asia Athenians Athens attack bade barbarians battle began body Britannicus brought Cæsar called Cambyses Cato cavalry chariot Cicero Clisthenes commanded Crito Croesus Cronus Cyrus Darius death Demosthenes earth Egypt Egyptians empire enemy father fear fell fight fire friends Gauls gave goddess gods gold Greece Greeks ground hands Hannibal head heaven Hector Hellespont Herodotus honor horses hundred king land live Livy Lycurgus Massagetæ mother Nero never night noble Odysseus orator pass Peloponnesian perished Persians person Pisistratus Pliny Polycrates Prexaspes race river Roman Rome sacred sacrifice Senate sent ships slaves Socrates soldiers Solon soon spake Spartans stood Tacitus temple thee things thou thought Thrasybulus Thucydides took tribes Trojans troops Vercingetorix wall whole wife wine women Xenophon Xerxes youths Zeus
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 112 - He was beginning to grow cold about the groin, when he uncovered his face, for he had covered himself up, and said — they were his last words — he said: Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? The debt shall be paid, said Crito; is there anything else?
Σελίδα 111 - What do you say about making a libation out of this cup to any god? May I, or not? The man answered: We only prepare, Socrates, just so much as we deem enough.
Σελίδα 72 - For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. (To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid...
Σελίδα 108 - ... either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain.
Σελίδα 112 - ... directions, and the man who gave him the poison now and then looked at his feet and legs; and after a while he pressed his foot hard, and asked him if he could feel; and he said, "No"; and then his leg, and so upwards and upwards, and showed us that he was cold and stiff. And he felt them himself, and said, "When the poison reaches the heart, that will be the end.
Σελίδα 72 - And we have not forgotten to provide for our weary spirits many relaxations from toil; we have regular games and sacrifices throughout the year; at home the style of our life is refined; and the delight which we daily feel in all these things helps to banish melancholy.
Σελίδα 73 - And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses ; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages...
Σελίδα 111 - When we heard that, we were ashamed, and refrained our tears; and he walked about until, as he said, his legs began to fail, and then he lay on his back, according to the directions, and the man who gave him the poison now and then looked at his feet and legs; and after a while he pressed his foot hard and asked him if he could feel; and he said, no; and then his leg, and so upwards and upwards, and showed us that he was cold and stiff. And he felt them himself, and said: When the poison reaches...
Σελίδα 72 - While we are thus unconstrained in our private intercourse, a spirit of reverence pervades our public acts; we are prevented from doing wrong by respect for authority and...
Σελίδα 6 - While such is its size, in magnificence there is no other city that approaches to it. It is surrounded, in the first place, by a broad and deep moat, full of water, behind which rises a wall fifty royal cubits in width, and two hundred in height. (The royal cubit is longer by three fingers' breadth than the common cubit.) 179.