Plutarch's Lives: In Six Volumes, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson, 1758 |
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Pagina 425 - ... boughs as they had need of, and twisted them into ladders, long enough to reach from thence to the bottom, by which, without any danger, all got down except one, who stayed behind to throw them their arms, after which he saved himself with the rest.
Pagina 119 - After the triumph, he was thrown into prison, where, while they were in haste to strip him, some tore his robe off his back, and others catching eagerly at his pendants, pulled off the tips of his ears along with them. When he was thrust down naked into the dungeon, all confused, he said with a frantic smile, " Heavens! how cold is this bath of yours!
Pagina 200 - ... wrote their business on it : this done, they took off the scroll, and sent it to the general. As soon as he received it he applied it to his staff, which being just like that of the magistrates, all the folds fell in with one another, exactly as they did at the writing ; and though, before, the characters were so broken and disjointed, that nothing could be made of them, they now became plain and legible. The parchment, as well as the staff, is called scytale ; as the thing measured bears the...
Pagina 269 - Spartans, that they did well to avoid storming of walls, where the stoutest man may chance to fall by the hand, not only of an abject fellow, but...
Pagina 118 - of an invincible strength and fierceness in battle, and came on with the same irresistible violence as a devouring flame ; nor could any withstand their fury in their march, but all that came in their way were trodden down or driven before them, like so many sheep, of whom they had made a prey. Many Roman armies, and many officers of great reputation, who had the care of the Transalpine Gaul committed to their charge, were defeated, or fled ignominiously before them. And indeed the faint resistance...
Pagina 116 - These having no commerce with the southern nations, and coming from countries far remote, no man knew what people they were, or whence they came...
Pagina 116 - At first it exceeded all credit as to the number and strength of the approaching army ; but at length that report proved much inferior to the truth, for they were three hundred thousand fighting men, besides a far greater number of women and children.