Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... SPEUSIPPUS . CALLIDEMUS . So , you young reprobate ! You must be a man of wit , forsooth , and a man of quality ! You must spend as if you were as rich as Nicias , and prate as if you were as wise as Pericles ! You must dangle after ...
... SPEUSIPPUS . CALLIDEMUS . So , you young reprobate ! You must be a man of wit , forsooth , and a man of quality ! You must spend as if you were as rich as Nicias , and prate as if you were as wise as Pericles ! You must dangle after ...
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... SPEUSIPPUs . Why , thou unreasonable old man ! Thou most shame- less of fathers ! - CALLIDEMUS . Ungrateful wretch ; dare you talk so ? Are you not afraid of the thunders of Jupiter ? SPEUSIPPUS . Jupiter thunder ! Nonsense ! Anaxagoras ...
... SPEUSIPPUs . Why , thou unreasonable old man ! Thou most shame- less of fathers ! - CALLIDEMUS . Ungrateful wretch ; dare you talk so ? Are you not afraid of the thunders of Jupiter ? SPEUSIPPUS . Jupiter thunder ! Nonsense ! Anaxagoras ...
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... SPEUSIPPUS . CALLIDEMUS . Ay , by Jupiter ! Is such a show as you make to be supported on nothing ? During all the last war , I made not an obol from my farm ; the Peloponnesian locusts came almost as regularly as the Pleiades ; -corn ...
... SPEUSIPPUS . CALLIDEMUS . Ay , by Jupiter ! Is such a show as you make to be supported on nothing ? During all the last war , I made not an obol from my farm ; the Peloponnesian locusts came almost as regularly as the Pleiades ; -corn ...
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... SPEUSIPPUS . You are wide of the mark . CALLIDEMUS . Then , what , in the name of Juno , is your scheme ? Do you intend to join Orestest , and rob on the highway ? Take care ; beware of the elevent ; beware of the hem- lock . It may be ...
... SPEUSIPPUS . You are wide of the mark . CALLIDEMUS . Then , what , in the name of Juno , is your scheme ? Do you intend to join Orestest , and rob on the highway ? Take care ; beware of the elevent ; beware of the hem- lock . It may be ...
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... SPEUSIPPUS . I thought of speaking , the other day , on the Sicilian expedition ; but Nicias * got up before me . CALLIDEMUS . Nicias , poor honest man , might just as well have sate still ; his speaking did but little good . The loss ...
... SPEUSIPPUS . I thought of speaking , the other day , on the Sicilian expedition ; but Nicias * got up before me . CALLIDEMUS . Nicias , poor honest man , might just as well have sate still ; his speaking did but little good . The loss ...
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