The History of Ancient Greeece, Its Colonies and Conquests, Volume 2J. Y. Humphreys, 1822 |
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Pagina 254 - Of depth immeasurable : anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Pagina 120 - Corpus et ipsum animum spe finis dura ferentem, Cum sociis operum, pueris et conjuge fida, Tellurem porco, Silvanum lacte piabant, Floribus et vino Genium memorem brevis aevi. Fescennina per hunc inventa licentia morem 145 Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit...
Pagina 104 - ... of the republic. Instead of the bread, herbs, and simple fare recommended by the laws of Solon, the Athenians, soon after the eightieth Olympiad, availed themselves of their extensive commerce to import the delicacies of distant countries, which were prepared with all the refinements of cookery. The wines of Cyprus were cooled with snow in summer ; in winter, the most delightful flowers adorned the tables and persons of the wealthy Athenians. Nor was it sufficient to be crowned with roses, unless...
Pagina 102 - Pericles, had tripled the revenues, and increased in a far greater proportion the dominions of the republic. The Athenian galleys commanded the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean ; their merchantmen had engrossed the traffic of the adjacent countries ; the magazines of Athens abounded with wood, metal, ebony, ivory, and all the materials of the useful as well as of the agreeable arts; they imported the luxuries of Italy, Sicily, Cyprus, Lydia, Pontus, and...
Pagina 126 - ... aspire. Nothing was allowed to divert their minds from those servile occupations, in which it was intended that their whole lives should be spent ; no liberal idea was presented to their imagination, that might raise them above the ignoble arts in which they were ever destined to labor.
Pagina 141 - ... nothing farther concerning that celebrated people, but what appeared from the Apollo Belvidere, the groupes of the Laocoon and Niobé, and other ftatues, gems, or medals, now fcattered...
Pagina 39 - By similar perilous exertions, near four hundred men were saved from inevitable destruction. The exercise of humanity to an enemy under such circumstances of immediate action and impending danger, conferred more true honour than could be acquired by the most splendid series of victories. It in some measure obscured the impression made to the disadvantage of human nature, by the madness of mankind in destroying each other by wasteful wars.
Pagina 105 - Phidias, ferved as handmaids to religion and virtue, degenerated under inferior artifts into mean hirelings of vice and...
Pagina 339 - ... ineffectual, they recurred to violence. Many of the licentious demagogues were assassinated, and four hundred men, chosen from among the people, were ap•pointed to conduct the administration of their country. These were to be men of dignity and opulence in the state, and assembled as often as they thought proper five thousand citizens, whom they judged most worthy of being consulted in the management of publick affairs; and thus was the Athenian democracy subverted, after it had subsisted one...
Pagina 355 - The goddess was not ungrateful for such favors, but in return conferred on our ancestors the two most valuable presents which either Heaven can bestow or mankind can receive; the practice of agriculture, which delivered us from the fierce and precarious manner of life common to us with wild animals ; and the knowledge of those sacred mysteries which fortify the initiated against all the terrors of death and inspire them with the pleasing hopes of an happy immortality.