Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 7
... father the prætor brought from Ephesus , must go to the auctioneer . That is a high price , you will acknowledge , even for Phoenicopters , Chian , and Callinice . " " High indeed , by Pollux . " " And that is not the worst . I saw June ...
... father the prætor brought from Ephesus , must go to the auctioneer . That is a high price , you will acknowledge , even for Phoenicopters , Chian , and Callinice . " " High indeed , by Pollux . " " And that is not the worst . I saw June ...
Page 11
... father thinking when he sent for an old Stoic with a long beard to teach you ? There is no language - mistress like a handsome woman . When I was at Athens , I learnt more Greek from a pretty flower - girl in the Peiræus than from all ...
... father thinking when he sent for an old Stoic with a long beard to teach you ? There is no language - mistress like a handsome woman . When I was at Athens , I learnt more Greek from a pretty flower - girl in the Peiræus than from all ...
Page 31
... father ? What quibble can you make upon that ? SPEUSIPPUS . Do I know that you are my father ? Let us take the question to pieces , as Melesigenes would say . First , then , we must inquire what is knowledge ? Secondly , what is a ...
... father ? What quibble can you make upon that ? SPEUSIPPUS . Do I know that you are my father ? Let us take the question to pieces , as Melesigenes would say . First , then , we must inquire what is knowledge ? Secondly , what is a ...
Page 35
... father of this fool ? SPEUSIPPUS . What now ? By Bacchus , old man , I would not advise you to give way to such fits of passion in the streets . If Aristophanes were to see you , you would infallibly be in a comedy next spring ...
... father of this fool ? SPEUSIPPUS . What now ? By Bacchus , old man , I would not advise you to give way to such fits of passion in the streets . If Aristophanes were to see you , you would infallibly be in a comedy next spring ...
Page 38
... father , you do not under- stand these things . You had not those advantages in your youth- CALLIDEMUS . Which I have been fool enough to let you have . No ; in my early days , lying had not been dignified into a science , nor politics ...
... father , you do not under- stand these things . You had not those advantages in your youth- CALLIDEMUS . Which I have been fool enough to let you have . No ; in my early days , lying had not been dignified into a science , nor politics ...
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