The speech against LeocratesThe University Press, 1922 - 254 pagine |
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Pagina xxi - The interior was divided into a nave and two aisles by two rows of four columns each.
Pagina 169 - Thracians, but he was slain by Erechtheus. Eumolpus was regarded as the founder of the Eleusinian mysteries, and as the first priest of Demeter and Dionysus.
Pagina 204 - Sparta was making herself detested throughout Greece, seems to have attracted general admiration from political thinkers. It attracted them because the old order survived there, — the citizen absolutely submissive to the authority of the state, and not looking beyond it. Elsewhere they were troubled by the problem of reconciling the authority of the state . with the liberty of the individual citizen ; at Sparta there was no such trouble, for the state was absolute. Accordingly they saw in Sparta...
Pagina 69 - ... to pay to his successful opponent one obol for every drachma of the sum at issue, ie one-sixth of the whole (i¡ ¿згш/ЗеХ/а).
Pagina 133 - that none of those calamities could have been brought about by the action of a single individual': for тгара с. асе. 'of that which turns the scale, and on which the result critically depends
Pagina 112 - JITTOV . . . airodav6vTa. though, like Demosthenes, he wrote his speeches out, he really belongs rather to the class of improvisatory speakers like Phocion. His tendency towards the epideictic style is also seen in his treatment of his subject-matter ; thus §§ 46-51 are nothing but a condensed funeral speech on those who died at Chaeronea. It is introduced with an apology (§ 46) ; it may seem irrelevant, he says, but it is frankly introduced to point the contrast between the patriot and the traitor.
Pagina 182 - The extant allusions are, with hardly an exception, not earlier than Leuctra : they begin immediately after this, with Isocrates. pretend to know anything definite: the 'first war' and the 'second,' with their dates and episodes, were among the many events of remote antiquity about which the historians of the decadence were so much better informed than their authorities.
Pagina xxii - ¿Ст/руасгато ка.1 fTTfTe\fiTfv). and thinks that there is 'no insuperable difficulty in assigning the main plan of the extant buildings to about the same time as the later temple of Dionysus [near the theatre] — perhaps as early as 420 Bc 'If this be the case...
Pagina 180 - Lacedaemonians, who were in former times first in martial qualities, had a war with the...