Masterpieces of Greek Literature: Homer: Tyrtaeus: Archilochus: Callistratus: Alcaeus: Sappho: Anacreon: Pindar: Aeschylus: Sophocles: Euripides Aristophanes: Herodotus: Thucydides: Xenophon: Plato: Theocritus: Lucian, with Biographical Sketches and NotesJohn Henry Wright Houghton, Mifflin, 1902 - 456 من الصفحات Homer: Tyrtaeus: Archilochus: Callistratus: Alcaeus: Sappho: Anacreon: Pindar: Aeschylus: Sophocles: Euripides Aristophanes: Herodotus: Thucydides: Xenophon: Plato: Theocritus: Lucian, with biographical sketches and notes; |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Admetos Aeschines Aeschylus Alkestis Antigone ANTISTROPHE army Athenians Athens Bacchus battle bear behold birds Brekeke-kesh brother called Chaerecrates Charon Chorus corpse Creon Crito dead dear death deed Demosthenes didst doom dost thou earth Egypt enemy Euelpides Euripides evil eyes fate father fear fire friends give gods Greece Greek grief Guard Gylippus Hades Haemon hand hate hath hear heart Hector Hellenic Hephaestus Heracles Hercules Hermes honor Hoopoe Ismene king koash land live look Messenger mind mortal mother Muses Neptune never Nicias night Nile nought o'er Oceanus Peisthetairus Persians Plataeans poet poetry praise Praxinoë Prometheus river round slain Socrates song sorrow soul speak suffer sweet Syracusans tears Teiresias tell Thebes thee Thessaly thine things thou hast thought Timon translation Triballian true turn wall wife wilt words Zeus
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 54 - TO A LOVED ONE BLEST as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile. 'T was this deprived my soul of rest,
الصفحة 134 - From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole ; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
الصفحة 393 - Simmias, seeing all these things, what ought not we to do that we may obtain virtue and wisdom in this life ? Fair is the prize, and the hope great! " A man of sense ought not to say, nor will I be very confident, that the description which I have given of
الصفحة 394 - In any way that you like ; but you must get hold of me, and take care that I do not run away from you." Then he turned to us and added with a smile: " I cannot make Crito believe that I am the same
الصفحة 412 - like sight into blind eyes. They undoubtedly say this, he replied. Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the
الصفحة 347 - the most glorious to the victors, the most ruinous to the vanquished ; for they were utterly and at all points defeated, and their sufferings were prodigious. Fleet and army perished from the face of the earth ; nothing was saved, and of the many who went forth few returned home. /-"Thus ended the Sicilian expedition.
الصفحة 55 - O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chilled; My blood with gentle horror thrilled; My feeble pulse forgot to play;
الصفحة 310 - A hundred thousand men labored constantly, and were relieved every three months by a fresh lot. It took ten years' oppression of the people to make the causeway for the conveyance of the stones, a work not much inferior, in my judgment, to the pyramid itself. This causeway is five furlongs in length, ten fathoms wide,
الصفحة 153 - Nor Justice, dwelling with the Gods below, Who traced these laws for all the sons of men; Nor did I deem thy edicts strong enough, That thou, a mortal man, shouldst overpass The unwritten laws of God that know not change.
الصفحة 405 - or a camp, or in any other popular resort, and there £ <* *• is a great uproar, and they praise some things which are being said or done, and blame other things, equally exaggerating both, shouting and clapping their hands, and the echo of the rocks