Biographies & Memoirs
mobi |eng | 2005-10-05 | Author:Cicero
It is pointed out, in an effort to refute me, that Publius Septimius Scaevola, when his penalty was being assessed after conviction on another totally unrelated charge,1 received a severer ...
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Rome
April 19,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-29 | Author:Plotinus
18. There remains still something to be said on the question whether the Soul uses deliberate reason29 before its descent and again when it has left the body. Reasoning is ...
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Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2003-07-30 | Author:
FRAGMENTS AND REFERENCES TO KNOWN WORKS It is Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his essay On the Style of Demosthenes, who preserves for us the only substantial fragment that survives of ...
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Greek & Roman
April 19,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-05 | Author:Komnene, Anna [Komnene, Anna]
BOOK ELEVEN THE FIRST CRUSADE (1097–1104) BOHEMOND and all the counts met at a place from which they intended to sail across to Kibotos, and with Godfrey they awaited the ...
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Renaissance
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Senge, Ra Yeshe [Senge, Ra Yeshe]
CHAPTER FOURTEEN TO INDIA AND BACK Council of translators—To Nepal and India—Return through southern Tibet—Translation activities—Liberation of Darma Dodé, son of Marpa—Farewells to the Master Around the same time Ralo ...
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Religious
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-27 | Author:Plato
He struck his chest, and his heart he scolded thus: 94e “Bear up, my heart! Much worse you have endured.”125 Do you think Homer composed these lines in the belief ...
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Philosophers
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-25 | Author:Lucretius
Book V Cosmos and Civilization Who can build a fitting song, who has the strength of heart To match the Majesty of Things and these truths in his art? Or ...
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Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2003-04-23 | Author:Homer
V Hymn to Aphrodite Muse, speak to me of the works of Aphrodite, the golden one, the Cyprian, she who awakens sweet longing in the gods and subdues the race ...
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Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Tacitus
Book 12 1. (48 CE, continued) Messalina’s killing produced dislocation in the Emperor’s household. A contest arose among the freedmen over who would choose a wife for Claudius, a man ...
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Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-28 | Author:Plato
C[3] 488b2–491d3 Socrates does not immediately defend himself from Callicles’ attack, but goes to work on his claim by attempting to get him to clarify what he meant by ‘stronger’ ...
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Greek & Roman
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Grant, Michael [Grant, Michael]
THE DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL After maintaining his army for fifteen years in Italy, he is driven out, followed to North Africa, and finally defeated at the battle of Zama.1 Over ...
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Anthologies
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-06-24 | Author:Tacitus
The Flavian March on Rome 49. So in a convulsion felt around the world, imperial power changed hands. Meanwhile, the behaviour of Antonius Primus degenerated sharply after Cremona. He thought ...
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Rome
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan
CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
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Epic
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Seneca
There may be pleasure in the memory Of even these events one day.* He should put his whole heart into the fight against them. If he gives way before them ...
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Letters
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-10-27 | Author:Heraclitus
FRAGMENTS The Collected Wisdom of HERACLITUS 1 The Word proves those first hearing it as numb to understanding as the ones who have not heard. Yet all things follow from ...
( Category:
Greek & Roman
April 19,2020 )
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