Nugae Literariae: Prose and VerseHamilton, 1841 - 585 psl. |
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... Plutarch . Some of his comments I will immediately pro- ceed to quote . And first , in respect to the names themselves . He inti- mates that Isis is derived from 9 , and that this is not a barbarous title , for that all the gods are ...
... Plutarch . Some of his comments I will immediately pro- ceed to quote . And first , in respect to the names themselves . He inti- mates that Isis is derived from 9 , and that this is not a barbarous title , for that all the gods are ...
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... Plutarch describes the wailing , practised in her mysteries , as denoting the burying of the corn - seed , that wailing always being for something lost or dead . Proserpine or Persephone , when gazing on the Narcissus , is suddenly ...
... Plutarch describes the wailing , practised in her mysteries , as denoting the burying of the corn - seed , that wailing always being for something lost or dead . Proserpine or Persephone , when gazing on the Narcissus , is suddenly ...
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... Plutarch rashly and impudently said , that " there was nothing in it unreasonable , idle , and supersti- tious ; " but it had now sunk indescribably lower by adopting all the darker studies and incantations of sorcery . The world ...
... Plutarch rashly and impudently said , that " there was nothing in it unreasonable , idle , and supersti- tious ; " but it had now sunk indescribably lower by adopting all the darker studies and incantations of sorcery . The world ...
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... Plutarch remarks with what skill and acuteness Pythagoras reasoned in discovering and ascertaining the superior height and size of Hercules . " For as it is well known that Hercules had measured with his feet the space of the stadium at ...
... Plutarch remarks with what skill and acuteness Pythagoras reasoned in discovering and ascertaining the superior height and size of Hercules . " For as it is well known that Hercules had measured with his feet the space of the stadium at ...
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... Plutarch's Lycurgus , that while the Athenians were best adapted to conduct mysteries and pageants , the Eleans were best suited to direct the agonistic contests , ως καλλιστα τελο ποιόντας . It was their genius , and seems to have been ...
... Plutarch's Lycurgus , that while the Athenians were best adapted to conduct mysteries and pageants , the Eleans were best suited to direct the agonistic contests , ως καλλιστα τελο ποιόντας . It was their genius , and seems to have been ...
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