Justin, Cornelius Nepos, and Eutropius: Literally Translated, with Notes and a General IndexH. G. Bohn, 1853 - 551 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 142 - This man was of humble origin but was stimulated to aspire to regal power by supernatural encouragement; for, having offended Alexander by his boldness of speech and orders being given to kill him, he saved himself by swiftness of foot; and, while he was...
الصفحة 493 - ... old, as Torquatus Manlius was consul in the six hundred and eighty-ninth year from the foundation of the city, and Corvinus, in honour of whom the wine was to be drawn, did not obtain the Consulate till 723 A.
الصفحة 307 - ... and does she not occupy the best room in the house, and live in the midst of company? But in Greece the case is far otherwise; for a wife is neither admitted to a feast, except among relations, nor does she sit anywhere but in the innermost apartment of the house, which is called the gynaeconitis, and into which nobody goes who is not connected with her by near relationship.
الصفحة 103 - All rank'd by tens, whole decades when they dine Must want a Trojan slave to pour the wine. But other forces have our hopes o'erthrown, And Troy prevails by armies not her own.
الصفحة 142 - ... asleep, after his fatigue, a lion of great size, having come up to him, licked off with his tongue the sweat that was running from him, and after gently waking him, left him. Being first prompted by this prodigy to conceive hopes of royal dignity, he drew together a band of robbers and instigated the Indians to overthrow the existing ( Greek ) government.
الصفحة 276 - Parthians, Eucratides began to reign among the Bactrians; both of them being great men. But the fortune of the Parthians, being the more successful, raised them, under this prince, to the highest degree of power; while the Bactrians, harassed with various wars, lost not only their dominions, but their liberty; for having suffered from contentions with the Sogdians, the Drangians, and the Indians, they were at last overcome, as if exhausted, by the weaker* Parthians.
الصفحة 142 - India, after the death of Alexander, had shaken, as it were, the yoke of servitude from its neck and put his governors to death. The author of this liberation was Sandrocottus.
الصفحة 309 - ... by frequent excursions. Nor was he less aided, in this proceeding, by good conduct than by good fortune, for after he had, by the valour of his men, routed the troops of the enemy, he settled affairs with the greatest equity, and resolved upon residing in the country himself. He held, indeed, among the inhabitants, the authority of a king, though he wanted the name ; and he did not attain this influence more by his power than by his justice. Nor did he the less, on this account, perform his duty...
الصفحة 335 - ... age, he was qualified for any occupation, and abounded in practical intelligence. He was eminent as a commander by sea and land; he was eloquent, so as to produce the greatest effect by his speeches ; for such indeed was the persuasiveness of his looks and language, that in oratory no one was a match for him. He was rich,* and, when occasion required, laborious, patient, liberal, and splendid, no less in his public than in his private...
الصفحة 378 - Artaxerxes, had undertaken to bribe Epaminondas. He accordingly came to Thebes with a large sum in gold, and, by a present of five talents, brought over Micythus, a young man for whom Epaminondas had then a great affection, to further his views. Micythus went to Epaminondas, and told him the cause of Diomedon's coming. But Epaminondas, in the presence of Diomedon, said to him, " There is no need of money in the matter ; for if what the king desires...