 | Diogenes Laertius - 1853 - 504 pagina’s
...purchased a quantity of purple from Phoenicia, he was shipwrecked close to the Piraeus ; and when he had made his way from the coast as far as Athens,...seasonably to pass at the moment, the bookseller pointed him out, and said, " Follow that man." From that time forth he became a pupil of Crates ; but though... | |
 | Diogenes (Laertius) - 1853 - 504 pagina’s
...purchased a quantity of purple from Phoenicia, he was shipwrecked close to the Piraeus ; and when he had made his way from the coast as far as Athens,...seasonably to pass at the moment, the bookseller pointed him out, and said, " Follow that man." From that time forth he became a pupil of Crates ; but though... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1855 - 412 pagina’s
...purchased a quantity of purple from Phoenicia, he was shipwrecked close to the Piraaus ; and when he had made his way from the coast as far as Athens,...seasonably to pass at the moment, the bookseller pointed him out, and said, "Follow that man." From that time forth he became a pupil of Crates ; but though... | |
 | 1873 - 746 pagina’s
...frequent allusion is made to bookshops and booksellers. In the life of Zeno it is said that " When he had made his way from the coast as far as Athens, he sat down by a bookseller's stall, being now thirty years of age. And as he took up the second book of Xenophon's Memorabilia and began to read... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 488 pagina’s
...purchased a quantity of purple from Phoenicia, he was shipwrecked close to the Piraeus ; and when he had made his way from the coast as far as Athens,...seasonably to pass at the moment, the bookseller pointed him out, and said, "Follow that man." From that time forth he became a pupil of Crates ; but though... | |
 | Alfred Clair Underwood - 1925 - 294 pagina’s
...purple from Phoenicia, he was shipwrecked close to the Pirasus ; and when he had made his way along the coast as far as Athens, he sat down by a bookseller's...and as Crates happened very seasonably to pass at that moment, the bookseller pointed him out, and said, ' Follow that man.' From that time forth he... | |
 | 1918 - 846 pagina’s
...into philosophy to a bookstore. According to Diogenes Laertius "Zeno sat down at a bookseller's stall, and as he took up the second book of Xenophon's Memorabilia...was delighted with it, and asked where such men as described there lived." When he was informed that they were there in Athens, he resolved to become... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 pagina’s
...purchased a quantity of purple from Phoenicia, he was shipwrecked close to the Piraeus ; and when he had made his way from the coast as far as Athens,...seasonably to pass at the moment, the bookseller pointed him out, and said, "Follow that man." From that time forth he became a pupil of Crates ; but though... | |
 | Keith Seddon - 2008 - 174 pagina’s
...purchased a quantity of purple from Phoenicia, he was shipwrecked close to the Piraeus,29 and when he had made his way from the coast as far as Athens,...bookseller's stall (being now about thirty years of age). As he took up the second book of Xenophon's Memorabilia and began to read it, he was so delighted with... | |
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Piraeus ; and when he had made his way from the coast as far as Athens, he sat down by a bookseller's stall, being now about thirty years of age. And as he took up the second book of Xenophon's Memorabilia and began to read it, he was delighted with it,... 