Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Abaeus-DysponteusWilliam Smith Taylor and Walton, 1844 |
Ấn bản in khác - Xem tất cả
Thuật ngữ và cụm từ thông dụng
according Aelian Aeschines Aeschylus afterwards Alex Alexander Alexandria ancient Antigonus Antiochus Antipater Antonius Apollod Apollodorus Apollonius appears Appian Archelaus Argos Aristotle Armenia army Arrian Arsaces Artemis ascribed Asia Athenaeus Athenian Athens Augustus battle brother Caesar called celebrated century Cicero command comp consul contemporary daughter defeated Demetrius Diod Diog Dion Cass edition Egypt emperor epigrams extant father fragments Galen Graec grammarian Greece Greek Heracles Herod Hist Homer honour Hygin Justin killed king Laërt Latin latter lived Macedonia married mentioned Mithridates mother murder Orat Parthians Paus Pausanias Persian Philip philosopher Phot Pind Plin Pliny Plut Plutarch poems poet Polyb probably Ptolemy put to death reign Roman Rome Schol seems sent shew Sparta Steph Strab Suidas surname Syria temple Thebes throne tion town translation viii wife worship writers wrote Zeus Περὶ
Đoạn trích phổ biến
Trang 272 - ЧГащитгн) is a short tract addressed to Gelo, the eldest son of Hiero, in which Archimedes proves, that it is possible to assign a number greater than that of the grains of sand which would fill the sphere of the fixed stars. This singular investigation was suggested by an opinion which some persons had expressed, that the sands on the shores of Sicily were either...
Trang 236 - ... thence he drew his line of imitation, and personified the central form of the class, to which his object belonged; and to which the rest of its qualities administered without being absorbed : agility was not suffered to destroy firmness, solidity, or weight; nor strength and weight agility: elegance did not degenerate to effeminacy, or grandeur swell to hugeness.
Trang 70 - ... 27) : and, in performance perhaps of some stipulation then made, he crossed, in the spring of 361, with a body of Lacedaemonian mercenaries into Egypt. Here, after displaying much of his ancient skill, he died, while preparing for his voyage home, in the winter of 361-60, after a life of above eighty years and a reign of thirty-eight.
Trang 19 - Artemis to him, and at the same time induced the Moirae to grant to Admetus deliverance from death, if at the hour of his death his father, mother, or wife would die for him. Alcestis did so, but K ora, or according to others Heracles, brought her back to the upper world.
Trang 19 - Admetus was a suitor, with others, for the hand of Alcestis, the daughter of Pelias, who promised her to him who should come for her in a chariot drawn by lions and boars. This task Admetus performed by the assistance of his divine herdsman, and was made happy in the possession of Alcestis. But Admetus...
Trang 77 - AGRIPPA I. was the son of Aristobulus and Berenice, and grandson of Herod the Great. He was brought up at Rome...
Trang 235 - The -acuteness of his taste led him to discover that as all men were connected by one general form, so they were separated each by some predominant power, which fixed character, and bound them to a class : that in proportion as this specific power partook of individual peculiarities, the farther it was removed from a share in that harmonious system which constitutes nature, and consists in a due balance of all its parts...
Trang 205 - Gorgias' sophistical school of oratory was more to dazzle and captivate the hearer by brilliancy of diction and rhetorical artifices than to produce a solid convic-tion based upon sound arguments ; it was, in short, a school for show-speeches, and the practical pur-poses of oratory in the courts of justice and the popular assembly lay beyond its sphere. Antiphon perceived this deficiency, and formed a higher and more practical view of the art to which he de-voted himself ; that is, he wished to produce...
Trang 22 - B. c. 317 he assisted Polysperchon in restoring Olympias and the young Alexander, who was then only five years old, to Macedonia. In the following year he marched to the assistance of Olympias, who was hard pressed by Cassander ; but the Epirots disliked the service, rose against Aeacides, and drove him from the kingdom.
Trang 208 - The summum bonum he placed in a life according to virtue, — virtue consisting in action, and being such, that when once obtained it is never lost, and exempts the wise man from the chance of error. That is, it is closely connected with reason, but to enable it to develop itself in action, and to be sufficient for happiness, it requires the aid of energy...