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1 Text, X(68) | 1 Cf. Eur. Heracl. 1002, and Bartlett, Fam. Quot. (
2 Text, IX(53) | 2 Cf. Herod, iii. 102 ; Jacobs on Aelian, Nat.
3 Text, IX(54) | 3 See p. 107. ~
4 Text, VI(25) | see Cicero, De Off. 3. 29. 108 : 'Juravi lingua, mentem
5 Text, VI(26) | see Cicero, De Off. i. 13. 41 : 'Totius autem injustitiae
6 Text, V(21) | 1 Gnomes 157-158.~
7 Text, V(21) | 1 Gnomes 157-158.~
8 Text, IX(48) | 1 See Phil. iii. 19. ~
9 Text, IX(58) | 1A Lydian of great wealth,
10 Text, X(66) | According to Herodotus (vii. 21) he ascended the throne
11 Text, IX(57) | 6 Bergk ii. 218; compare Proverbs xxx. 8 : '
12 Text, IX(45) | 3 I Sam. xvi. 14-23. ~
13 Text, VIII(37)| 1 See 1 Cor. ix. 24-27. ~
14 Text, V(16) | 3 Ibid. 287.~
15 Text, IX(46) | Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras 30. ~
16 Text, V(17) | Libanius, b. at Antioch in 314 ; studied at Athens, but
17 Text, V(19) | the Gnomes of Theognis, 316-318. See also Plutarch,
18 Text, V(19) | Gnomes of Theognis, 316-318. See also Plutarch, Life
19 Text, IX(55) | 4 Bergk 327. ~
20 Text, VIII(41)| of the ode in Protagoras 338. See also Arist. Pol. iii.
21 Text, X(62) | 2 Hesiod, W. and D. 359 : ' If you are ever adding
22 Text, VI(26) | 3 Rep. ii, 361 ; see Cicero, De Off. i.
23 Text, V(15) | passage in the Republic ii. 364. ~
24 Text, IX(61) | and Vergil, Georg. iv. 386. ~
25 Text, VII(30) | 4Matt. v. 39.~
26 Text, IX(44) | 2 See Plato, Rep. iii, 398 ff., for a discussion of
27 Text, IX(47) | 5 In Rep. iii. 399, Plato puts flute-players
28 Text, IX(49) | 2 See Rep. iii. 403-412. ~
29 Text, VIII(37)| Olympic games in Ol. 93, B.C. 408. His size was immense, and
30 Text, VI(26) | see Cicero, De Off. i. 13. 41 : 'Totius autem injustitiae
31 Text, IX(49) | 2 See Rep. iii. 403-412. ~
32 Text, IX(43) | the Bohn tr. of Plato 6. 43 ; Cicero, Somn. Scip. 8 ;
33 Text, VII(31) | 5 Ibid. v. 44.~
34 Text, IX(61) | 1 Proteus; see Odys. iv. 455, and Vergil, Georg. iv.
35 Text, VI(24) | 1 Odys. x. 495.~
36 Text, VII(30) | 4Matt. v. 39.~
37 Text, IV(10) | 4 See p. 51; Basil, Epist. i.~
38 Text, IX(42) | 1 See p. 55. ~
39 Text, VIII(40)| Mytilene in Lesbos, 652 B.C. In 589 P. was chosen aesymnetes (
40 Text, VI(25) | 2 Hippolytus 612; see Cicero, De Off. 3.
41 Text, II(5) | 1 See Rep. x. 614 : 'And yet, I said, all
42 Text, VIII(38)| Asshurbanipal, King of Assyria, 668-626 B.C.' ~
43 Text, IV(11) | 5 See p. 64, and notes.~
44 Text, IX(60) | only to Homer, flourished 650 B.C. He was a master in
45 Text, VIII(40)| at Mytilene in Lesbos, 652 B.C. In 589 P. was chosen
46 Text, VIII(38)| Asshurbanipal, King of Assyria, 668-626 B.C.' ~
47 Text, X(67) | 7 Gen. v. 27. ~
48 Text, VIII(41)| of Simonides, see Bergk 747, and Plato indulges in a
49 Text, V(18) | vi. and vii., and also p. 76, for Plutarch's comment
50 Text, X(68) | Fam. Quot. (9th ed.), p. 809. ~
51 Text, X(64) | See Diogenes Laertius i. 82-88, for this and other of
52 Text, VII(33) | in the Cyropaedia. See p. 84.~
53 Text, X(64) | Diogenes Laertius i. 82-88, for this and other of the
54 Text, II(6) | 2 See p. 95.~
55 Text, IX(51) | Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras 96, 98. ~
56 Text, IX(51) | Life of Pythagoras 96, 98. ~
57 Text, X(68) | and Bartlett, Fam. Quot. (9th ed.), p. 809. ~
58 Text, IV(13) | qon po_ti\ ta_n spa&rton a1gontaj. Maloney notes that St.
59 Text, VIII(39)| Basil speaks: ~To_n d' ou1t a1r skapth~ra qeoi\ qe/san,
60 Text, VIII | helmsman does not blindly abandon his ship to the winds, but
61 Text, VI | proportion to their several abilities, extolled virtue in their
62 Text, VIII(40)| chosen aesymnetes (ruler with absolute power), which office he
63 Text, IX | the body any more than is absolutely necessary, but we ought
64 Text, IX | unhealthy part of Athens for his Academy, in order to remove excessive
65 Outl | more than mere theoretical acceptance, for one must try to realize
66 Outl | helpful and the injurious, accepting the one, but closing one'
67 Text, X | like mighty rivers, to gain accessions on every hand. For the precept
68 Text, V | him all that is not merely accessory tends to this end. There
69 Text, VII | disciples of Pythagoras, was in accidental conformity to our teachings,
70 Text, X | applying not so much to the accumulation of riches, as of the various
71 Text, II | teachings, even as we first accustom ourselves to the sun's reflection
72 Text, V(22) | fifth century, B.C. He was accustomed to travel through Greece,
73 Text, X | shall become more intimately acquainted with these precepts in the
74 Text, II | military practice, for they acquire skill in gymnastics and
75 Text, V(17) | studied at Athens, but acquired his education principally
76 Text, IX | Pythius,58 with limitless acres of land, and more herds
77 Text, VII | hard to believe that the action of Cleinias,35 one of the
78 Text, IV | having taken so much as is adapted to their needs, they let
79 Text, X | of the poet which bids us add little to little 62 must
80 Text, X(62) | 359 : ' If you are ever adding little to little, soon your
81 Text | ADDRESS TO YOUNG MEN ON THE RIGHT
82 Text, I | many-sided training, yea, my adequate experience in those vicissitudes
83 Text, IX | For Socrates expressed an admirable thought when he said that
84 Text, IX | man was never an object of admiration with him until he learned
85 Text, IX | suffering no ill.' 57 ~I also admire the wholesale contempt of
86 Text, V(17) | and bred, he was an ardent admirer of the Emperor Julian, but
87 Text, X | incurable melancholy do not even admit the physicians if they come.
88 Text, IX | to wisdom,49 or as Paul admonishes somewhere in a similar passage: '
89 Text, IX | sensual pleasures, court adulation and fulsome praise, vying
90 Text, IV | against their parents. The adulteries of the gods and their amours,
91 Text, VII | does not commit the act of adultery, is not free from its guilt,
92 Text, IX(53) | Herod, iii. 102 ; Jacobs on Aelian, Nat. Animal, iv. 27. ~
93 Text, VIII(40)| B.C. In 589 P. was chosen aesymnetes (ruler with absolute power),
94 Text, V(17) | associating on terms of affectionate intimacy with St. Chrysostom
95 Text, II(4) | Col. iii. 2 : ' Set your affections on things above, not on
96 Text, III | If, then, there is any affinity between the two literatures,
97 Text, IV | flowers, which to men are agreeable only for their fragrance
98 Text, VI(26) | quum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur;'
99 Text, V | with pleasure, since our aim is a common one.~Now as
100 Text, VII | this conduct of Socrates is akin to the precept that to him
101 Text, VII(33) | Alexander ; Arrian, Exped, of Alex. ii. 12. The same story
102 Text, VIII(39)| According to St. Clement of Alexandria, these are the verses of
103 Text, IV | whatever befits us and is allied to the truth, and shall
104 Text, V | still more, she sought to allure Hercules to her side. The
105 | along
106 Text, V | to virtue, or its easier alternate, two women appeared before
107 | always
108 Text, IV | adulteries of the gods and their amours, and especially those of
109 Text, IV | make up stories for the amusement of their hearers. And certainly
110 Text, II | only. 4 Neither pride of ancestry, nor bodily strength, nor
111 Text, VIII | but guides it toward the anchorage; if the archer shoots at
112 Text, X | to call back the past in anguish, when no more time is given. ~
113 Text, VIII | other branch, and to be announced by the herald as victor.37~
114 Text, IX | the eyes on the senseless antics of buffoons, or on bodies
115 Text, V(17) | 4 Libanius, b. at Antioch in 314 ; studied at Athens,
116 Text, IX | work of the gold-gathering ants,53 he would disdain in proportion
117 Text, VII(29) | zei xe/ra; but Euripides: 'Aplou~j e0p e0xqroi=j o9pli/zein
118 Text, V(17) | but his devotion to the Apostate did not prevent him from
119 Text, V | between them was at once apparent from their mien. The one
120 Outl | writings, in which truth appears as in a mirror.~III. Profane
121 Text, VII | the man should surely be appeased, and cease from his hostility
122 Text, IX | the gratification of one's appetite than that it compels those
123 Text, IX | fellowship with the bodily appetites; at the same time we ought
124 Text, II | prepare the cloth before they apply the dye, be it purple or
125 Text, X | little 62 must be taken as applying not so much to the accumulation
126 Text, VIII | artisans as they are, in quick appreciation of our interests? For is
127 Text, VIII | that came near our path and appropriate it. If the helmsman does
128 Text, VIII | toward the anchorage; if the archer shoots at his mark; if also
129 Text, V(17) | born and bred, he was an ardent admirer of the Emperor Julian,
130 Text, VIII | strip themselves for the arena, and endure all and risk
131 Text, X | age of Tithonus,65 or of Arganthonius,66 or of that Methuselah 67
132 Text, IX | Elis, the other the Juno of Argos, they would have been laughed
133 Text, V | interpreter of the poetic mind argued that, in this episode, Homer
134 Text, IX | ointment. Again, what further argument is needed against seeking
135 Text, VIII(39)| pupil of Marsyas, Schol. in Aristoph Eq. 9 ; see also Plutarch,
136 Text, IX(58) | banqueted him and his whole army (Herod, vii. 27-29). ~
137 Text, VIII | at his pleasure he could arouse the passions of men by his
138 Text, V | their mien. The one had arranged herself to please the eye,
139 Text, VII(33) | 12 ; Life of Alexander ; Arrian, Exped, of Alex. ii. 12.
140 Text, IX(58) | in Phrygia. When Xerxes arrived at Celaenae, Pythius banqueted
141 Text, VIII | outclassed by these men, mere artisans as they are, in quick appreciation
142 Text, VI | actually be such a man as the artist pictures on the canvas.
143 Text, IX(59) | Spear-bearer was studied by other artists as containing the canon
144 Text, X(66) | to Herodotus (vii. 21) he ascended the throne at the age of
145 Text, VIII(39)| all badly, was frequently ascribed by the ancients to Homer,
146 Text, IX | infamous things. Then I am ashamed to forbid you to load the
147 Text, IX | perchance some one may ask. What else than to care
148 Text, VIII | them, while we are fast asleep and leading care-free lives,
149 Text, VIII(38)| original of Sardanapalus is Asshurbanipal, King of Assyria, 668-626
150 Text, I | through their writings, associate with the learned men of
151 Text, IX | opinions to those of his associates. ~
152 Text, V(17) | did not prevent him from associating on terms of affectionate
153 Text, X | life, and expecting that association will render it pleasant,
154 Text, IX | is said to have used to assuage the madness of the king.45
155 Text, V(19) | 2 The great Athenian law-giver. In the tract,
156 Outl | purpose in life. So, like the athlete or the musician, they must
157 Text, III(8) | ou3tw proselqei=n thqewri/atou~ O1ntoj.~
158 Text, IX(46) | Pythagoreans great importance was attached to the influence of music
159 Text, V | Since we must needs attain to the life to come through
160 Outl | the life to come is to be attained through virtue, chief attention
161 Text, V(17) | the Greek classics and the attainment of excellence in Greek composition,
162 Text, IX | thing would be loath to attempt anything mean or low, either
163 Text, V(19) | One's Enemies, Plutarch attributes these lines to Solon, but
164 Text, VI(26) | Off. i. 13. 41 : 'Totius autem injustitiae nulla capitalior
165 Text, II | esteem of all men, nor kingly authority, nor, indeed, whatever of
166 Text, II | the reality. Or rather, to avail myself of a still more natural
167 Text, VII | thus much may you be avenged; the conduct of Pericles
168 Text, IV | just as in culling roses we avoid the thorns, from such writings
169 Text, VII | taking an oath he could have avoided a fine of three talents,
170 Text, II(5) | other recompenses which await both just and unjust after
171 Text, IX(43) | 1 Perhaps Ps.-Plato, Axiochtts 365 ; cf. the Bohn tr. of
172 Text, III | the Chaldaeans while in Babylon,9 and after that to have
173 Text, IX | rave like Corybantes and Bacchantes. Even so great a difference
174 Text, VIII(39)| things, and who knew all badly, was frequently ascribed
175 Text, V | by the god, inclines the balances for men, now this way, now
176 Text, VIII | souls, like boats without ballast we should be borne hither
177 Text, IX(58) | arrived at Celaenae, Pythius banqueted him and his whole army (
178 Text, VIII | sense to bear, but at the bar of justice, be that under
179 Text, X(68) | Eur. Heracl. 1002, and Bartlett, Fam. Quot. (9th ed.), p.
180 Text, IX | offspring of servility and baseness are produced by this kind
181 Text, I(1) | Fialon, Biographie de St. Basile, and Wace and Schaff, Select
182 Text, II | in dancing, and then in battle reap the reward of their
183 Text, II | that the greatest of all battles lies before us, in preparation
184 Text, II | those things which have no bearing upon it should be held as
185 Text, IX | making the body appear very beautiful is not the mark of a man
186 Text, VIII | come upon us, and judgment befall us, not forsooth here among
187 Text, IV | from heathen books whatever befits us and is allied to the
188 | begin
189 | beginning
190 Text, IX | animals, to make of their bellies a god? 48 ~In a word, he
191 Outl | the musician, they must bend every energy to one task,
192 Text, IX | much care to the body as is beneficial to the soul. For to one
193 Text, II | unconditionally a blessing which benefits us in this life only. 4
194 Text, VIII(38)| falling into the hands of the besiegers of Nineveh, ended his worthless
195 Text, V | looked fixedly at him, and bespoke quite another thing. For
196 Text, X | precept of the poet which bids us add little to little 62
197 Text, I(1) | Basil. Also see Fialon, Biographie de St. Basile, and Wace
198 Text, IX | this knowledge than for a blear-eyed person to look upon the
199 Text, II | anything as unconditionally a blessing which benefits us in this
200 Text, VIII | shall scarcely gain those blessings to which, as said above,
201 Text, VIII | If the helmsman does not blindly abandon his ship to the
202 Text, IV | winebibbers, when they define blissfulness by groaning tables and wanton
203 Text, IV | connection with brutes, without blushing, we shall leave to the stage.
204 Text, VIII | tiller of our souls, like boats without ballast we should
205 Text, IX(43) | Axiochtts 365 ; cf. the Bohn tr. of Plato 6. 43 ; Cicero,
206 Text, I | careers. By nature's common bond I stand in the same relationship
207 Text, IX | soul, releasing it from the bondage of fellowship with the bodily
208 Text, VI(26) | fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur;' Plutarch,
209 Text, X | gather the useful from each book are wont, like mighty rivers,
210 Text, IV | shall take from heathen books whatever befits us and is
211 Text, V(17) | Greek expression. A pagan born and bred, he was an ardent
212 Text, VIII | without ballast we should be borne hither and thither through
213 Text, III | leaves which quiver on its boughs, even so the real fruit
214 Text, IX | Forsooth, those who exceed the bounds of necessity, like men who
215 Text, VIII | of parsley, or some other branch, and to be announced by
216 Text, X | riches, as of the various branches of learning. In line with
217 Text, V | and so to incite us to bravery, that we may not weaken
218 Text, VI | matter of theory alone, 'breathes; all others flutter about
219 Text, V(17) | expression. A pagan born and bred, he was an ardent admirer
220 Text, VI | praise virtue in public with brilliant words and with long drawn
221 Text, IX | earth and sea, like those bringing tribute to some stern tyrant.
222 Text, VII | his face was swollen and bruised from the blows. Then when
223 Text, IV | even in connection with brutes, without blushing, we shall
224 Text, IX | the senseless antics of buffoons, or on bodies which goad
225 Text, VIII(38)| ended his worthless life by burning himself in his palace. It
226 Text, IX | a word, he who would not bury himself in the mire of sensuality
227 Text, X | render it pleasant, we shall busy ourselves with those things
228 Text, VIII | should sweep along all that came near our path and appropriate
229 Text, IX(59) | artists as containing the canon with respect to the proportions
230 Text, VI | the artist pictures on the canvas. To praise virtue in public
231 Text, VI(26) | autem injustitiae nulla capitalior est quam eorum qui quum
232 Text, VII | Alexander, who, on taking captive the daughters of Darius,
233 Text, VIII | fast asleep and leading care-free lives, to make these our
234 Text, V(17) | During the first part of his career as a teacher at Constantinople,
235 Text, I | just starting upon their careers. By nature's common bond
236 Text, X | pagan authors. For those who carefully gather the useful from each
237 Text, VII | but he, for his part, not caring. Then when it was evening
238 Text, VIII | have restored him to his carousing friends.41 Such power to
239 Text, VIII | the metal-worker or the carpenter seeks to produce the objects
240 Text, VIII(38)| Pythian. He is said to have carried a four-year-old heifer on
241 Text, IV | nor indeed do they seek to carry away entire those upon which
242 Text, IX | land, and more herds of cattle than may be counted. Yet
243 Text, VII | surely be appeased, and cease from his hostility to him.~
244 Text, VIII | their strength, they sweat ceaselessly at their training, they
245 Text, V | Prodicus, the sophist of Ceos,22 whose opinion we must
246 Text, V | reverence the leader of the Cephallenians, though he appeared naked,
247 Text, III | studied the lore of the Chaldaeans while in Babylon,9 and after
248 Text, IX | led the merry-making, to change the tune and to play a Doric
249 Text, V | possession, while riches are ever changing owners.' Similarly Theognis 20
250 Text, IX | Doric air, and that the chant so sobered them that they
251 Text, I(1) | Historical Sketches, vol. ii. chaps, i. and ii, for an account
252 Text, VIII | wont to bring the rushing chariot to a halt, and thus hardened
253 Text, IX | disregard the mind, as a charioteer is run away with by unmanageable
254 Text, V | the eye, while she exhaled charms, and a multitude of delights
255 Text, IX | nowhere gain a footing to check their precipitous flight,
256 Text, VII | smites you upon the one cheek, you shall turn the other
257 Text, VII | us by tradition, or are cherished in the pages of poet or
258 Text, V | our attention is to be chiefly fastened upon those many
259 Text, X | laugh as at the fancies of a child, since I look forward to
260 Text, V(22) | whom has preserved, in The Choice of Hercules, the story here
261 Text, VIII | from God, he who designedly chooses a life of wickedness doubtless
262 Text, VI | which was out of tune, nor a choregus with a chorus not singing
263 Text, VI | tune, nor a choregus with a chorus not singing in perfect harmony.
264 Text, IX | influence of the body, he chose an unhealthy part of Athens
265 Text, V(17) | tolerant attitude toward Christianity, so far as it did not interfere
266 Text, IV(13) | that St. Gregory Nazianzen cites this proverb in Letter xxxviii,
267 Text, IX | sensible man whether he is clad in a robe of state or in
268 Text, X | as the sick are of three classes, according to the degrees
269 Text, VIII(38)| According to an inaccurate classical tradition, the last king
270 Text, V(17) | with the study of the Greek classics and the attainment of excellence
271 Text, II | have made it sufficiently clear to you that if one should
272 Outl | injurious knowledge, keeping clearly in mind the Christian's
273 Text, VII | believe that the action of Cleinias,35 one of the disciples
274 Text, VIII(39)| later date. According to St. Clement of Alexandria, these are
275 Text, V(17) | explained by his shallow cleverness as well as by his easy temper.'
276 Text, IX | goad one to passion, and to close one's ears to songs which
277 Outl | accepting the one, but closing one's ears to the siren
278 Text, II | Just as dyers prepare the cloth before they apply the dye,
279 Text, IX | necessary on one's hair and clothes is, in the words of Diogenes,
280 Text, II(4) | 1 See Col. iii. 2 : ' Set your affections
281 Text, IX | protected from heat and cold? Likewise in other matters
282 Text, IX | torments of hell, where wool is combed into the fire, or water
283 Text, V | and makes him, when he comes naked to the strand, more
284 Text, IX | remove excessive bodily comfort, as one prunes the rank
285 Text, II | more time than is at our command, and more mature hearers
286 Text, IX | some drunken revelers, he commanded the flute-player, who led
287 Text, VIII | were an idle life a very commendable thing, Sardanapalus38 would
288 Text, V(18) | also p. 76, for Plutarch's comment on this episode.~
289 Text, VII | even though he does not commit the act of adultery, is
290 Text, VIII | friends.41 Such power to compass one's end, either in music
291 Outl | crown.~IX. This end is to be compassed by holding the body under,
292 Text, IX | s appetite than that it compels those who pursue it, like
293 Text, V | and then made Odysseus as completely lack embarrassment, though
294 Text, V(17) | attainment of excellence in Greek composition, may be explained by his
295 Outl | knowledge for the future.~Conclusion: The above are some of the
296 Text, IV | which they praise virtue or condemn vice. For just as bees know
297 Text, VI | who does not make his life conform to his words, but who says
298 Text, VII | Pythagoras, was in accidental conformity to our teachings, and not
299 Text, IV | one cannot speak, even in connection with brutes, without blushing,
300 Text, VIII(37)| 1 'Of Scotussa, conquered in the Pancratium at the
301 Text, VII | unworthy of one who was a conqueror of men to be a slave to
302 Text, II | all things to gain power. Consequently we must be conversant with
303 Text, II | may be called great, do we consider worthy of desire, or the
304 Text, I | Many considerations, young men, prompt me to
305 Text, IX | at all from that which he considers right; else how shall we
306 Text, V(17) | his career as a teacher at Constantinople, he was very popular, and
307 Text, IX | ivory with which the one constructed the statue of the Jupiter
308 Text, VII | the pagan authors which contain suggestions of the virtues.
309 Outl | appreciate the deep thoughts contained therein, they are to study
310 Text, IX(59) | studied by other artists as containing the canon with respect to
311 Text, IV | letters it receive some contamination unawares, as men drink in
312 Text, VII(35) | 3 A contemporary and friend of Plato. ~
313 Text, IX | also admire the wholesale contempt of all human possessions
314 Text, VIII | their whole life before the contest is preparatory to it. Then
315 Text, VIII | musical contests; for the contestants prepare themselves by a
316 Text, IX | neglectful of their trade? On the contrary, one ought to discipline
317 Text, III | comparison, by emphasizing the contrast, will be of no small service
318 Text, IX | under, as a fierce animal is controlled, and to quiet, by the lash
319 Text, IX(46) | the influence of music in controlling the passions ; see Porphyry,
320 Text, IX(57) | riches ; feed me with food convenient for me.' ~
321 Text, II | Consequently we must be conversant with poets, with historians,
322 Text, IX | everywhere for waiters and cooks, and scour both earth and
323 Text, VIII(37)| 1 See 1 Cor. ix. 24-27. ~
324 Text, V(22) | special attention to the correct use of words. Although severely
325 Text, VII(29) | has not quoted Euripides correctly ; St. Basil reads : 'Ep'
326 Text, IX | one's ears to songs which corrupt the mind. For passions which
327 Text, IX | of the flute 47 rave like Corybantes and Bacchantes. Even so
328 Text, IX | herds of cattle than may be counted. Yet I believe that if riches
329 Text, IX | scorning sensual pleasures, court adulation and fulsome praise,
330 Text, IV | lying. For neither in the courts of justice nor in other
331 Text, IX(60) | will trail the subtle and crafty fox, as Archilochus, first
332 Text, I | feelings, you no longer crave your parents when you come
333 Text, V(22) | words. Although severely criticised by the other sophists, he
334 Text, VIII(38)| 2 Of Crotona. He was six times victor
335 Text, IX | to study what pleases the crowd. Rather truth should be
336 Text, VIII | have won ready laurels or crowns, or would they have escaped
337 Text, IV | the rest. And just as in culling roses we avoid the thorns,
338 Text, IX | fox of Archilochus 60 in cunning and craft? Of a truth there
339 Text, VII | easy, we shall at least curb our anger by reflection,
340 Text, VII(28) | Plutarch, Concerning the Cure of Anger 14.~
341 Text, VII | Pray for your enemies and curse them not.' 32 One who has
342 Text, VII(33) | is told of Cyrus in the Cyropaedia. See p. 84.~
343 Text, VII(33) | The same story is told of Cyrus in the Cyropaedia. See p.
344 Text, II | skill in gymnastics and in dancing, and then in battle reap
345 Text, VII | captive the daughters of Darius, who were reputed to be
346 Text, VIII(39)| to Homer, but is of later date. According to St. Clement
347 Text, VII | who, on taking captive the daughters of Darius, who were reputed
348 Text, IX | to better things, which David, the sacred psalmist, is
349 Text, III | deity.8 Similarly, in later days, the wise Daniel is said
350 Text, V | with us whether living or dead. Wherefore it seems to me
351 Text, V | about your age, as he was debating which path he should choose,
352 Text, IX | or low, either in word or deed. For superfluity, be it
353 Text, VII | even look at them, for he deemed it unworthy of one who was
354 Text, IV | and winebibbers, when they define blissfulness by groaning
355 Text, IX | Execestides, puts it, 'No definite limit is set to a man's
356 Text, III | able to appreciate their deity.8 Similarly, in later days,
357 Text, IX | to be sure, but not with delicacies, as those do who seek everywhere
358 Text, V | charms, and a multitude of delights swarmed in her train. With
359 Text, V(22) | to travel through Greece, delivering lectures for money. He paid
360 Text, VII | out all day, the fellow deluging him with reproaches, but
361 Text, VIII(39)| the gods made neither a delver, nor a ploughman, ~Nor any
362 Text, IX | and so far as your needs demand, purity of soul embraces
363 Text, IV | Perhaps it is sufficiently demonstrated that such heathen learning
364 Text, VIII(39)| other useful thing, but deprived of every craft.' ~
365 Text, IX(58) | of great wealth, which he derived from his gold mines in the
366 Text, VIII | pardon from God, he who designedly chooses a life of wickedness
367 Text, I | principles which I deem most desirable, and which I believe will
368 Text, II | do we consider worthy of desire, or the possessors of them
369 Text, X | which I deem the most to be desired; of others I shall continue
370 Text, IX | the gratification of their desires. As Solon,54 the son of
371 Text, IX | stern tyrant. This is a despicable business, in which are endured
372 Text, VII(36) | 4 Lev. xix. 12, or Deut. v. ii.~
373 Text, VIII | in athletic contests, is developed by practice.~I have called
374 Text, V(17) | Emperor Julian, but his devotion to the Apostate did not
375 Text, V | another, and, as when men are dicing, fall now to this one, now
376 Text, IX | how shall we say that he differs from the Egyptian sophist,
377 Text, VIII(41)| Arist. Pol. iii. 14. 9 ; Diog. Laert i. 4. ~
378 Text, VII | of Cleinias,35 one of the disciples of Pythagoras, was in accidental
379 Text, IX | the contrary, one ought to discipline the flesh and hold it under,
380 Text, IX(51) | living of the Pythagoreans is discussed and illustrated in Porphyry,
381 Text, IX | gold-gathering ants,53 he would disdain in proportion to its needlessness,
382 Text, IX | really a man it is no less a disgrace to be a fop or a pamperer
383 Text, I | not, I should say nothing disparaging, but no doubt you yourselves
384 Text, V | in her train. With such a display, and promising still more,
385 Outl | make the fatal error of disregarding them.
386 Outl | thought, young men must distinguish between helpful and injurious
387 Text, IX(43) | Somn. Scip. 8 ; Lactantius, Div. Inst. ii. 3. 8. ~
388 Text, VI | harmony. But every man is divided against himself who does
389 Text, X(64) | other of the sayings and doings of Bias. ~
390 | done
391 Text, I | nothing disparaging, but no doubt you yourselves would remember
392 Text, VIII | chooses a life of wickedness doubtless has a far greater punishment
393 Text, IX | case of the mythological dragons, there is some satisfaction
394 Text, IX(60) | Around and about me I will draw the simple garb of virtue,
395 Text, II | other than the shadow or the dream fails of the reality. Or
396 Text, IV | contamination unawares, as men drink in poison with honey. We
397 Text, IX | Pythagoras happened upon some drunken revelers, he commanded the
398 Text, VIII(41)| 2; Cicero, Legg. 2. 12; Dryden, Alexander's Feast.~
399 | During
400 Text, VII | when it was evening and dusk, and the fellow still clung
401 Text, VIII | Phrygians,39 abandoning dust and exercise, would they
402 Text, I | recognizes what is his duty, and he also is good who
403 Text, II | cloth before they apply the dye, be it purple or any other
404 Text, II | soul's salvation. Just as dyers prepare the cloth before
405 Text, VII(29) | but Euripides: 'Aplou~j e0p e0xqroi=j o9pli/zein xe/
406 Text, VII(29) | Euripides: 'Aplou~j e0p e0xqroi=j o9pli/zein xe/ra. ~
407 Text, VII(29) | St. Basil reads : 'Ep' e0xqrou_j qumo_j o(pli/zei xe/ra;
408 Text, IX | make whether one lends his ear to healthy or to vicious
409 Text, IV | both love and imitate them, earnestly emulating such conduct.
410 Text, V | through toil to virtue, or its easier alternate, two women appeared
411 Text, V | the one having set out, easily to reach the summit. But
412 Text, VIII(38)| Olympia, and then to have eaten the whole of it in a single
413 Text, IX | from gymnastics and hearty eating, said to him, 'Will you
414 Text, X(68) | Bartlett, Fam. Quot. (9th ed.), p. 809. ~
415 Text, IX(44) | discussion of the moral effects of the different modes. ~
416 Text, VIII(38)| Assyria. He was noted for effeminacy and voluptuousness, and
417 Text, X | was about to set out for Egypt, was inquiring what course
418 Text, IX | that he differs from the Egyptian sophist, who at pleasure
419 Text, III | mind in the learning of the Egyptians, 7 and thus became able
420 Text, X(66) | age of forty, and reigned eighty years. ~
421 Text, VIII(40)| nothing is known ; of his elegiac poems, a few lines are preserved. ~
422 Text, IX(60) | was a master in odes, in elegies, and in fables, but his
423 Text, IX | statue of the Jupiter of Elis, the other the Juno of Argos,
424 Text, V | Odysseus as completely lack embarrassment, though seen naked and alone,
425 Text, III | without advantage for it to embrace the pagan wisdom, as also
426 Text, IX | needs demand, purity of soul embraces these things: to scorn sensual
427 Outl | VI. Indeed, almost all eminent philosophers have extolled
428 Text, V(17) | an ardent admirer of the Emperor Julian, but his devotion
429 Text, III | not, the comparison, by emphasizing the contrast, will be of
430 Text, IX | the other hand, we must employ that class of music which
431 Text, V | they lived, all admired and emulated him, and there was not one
432 Text, IV | imitate them, earnestly emulating such conduct. But when they
433 Text, VII | that such men are worthy of emulation. For this conduct of Socrates
434 Text, VIII(38)| the besiegers of Nineveh, ended his worthless life by burning
435 Text, V | be Odysseus, even to the enduring of shipwreck.18 The interpreter
436 Text, VII | arms the hand against the enemy;' 29 for it is much better
437 Outl | musician, they must bend every energy to one task, the winning
438 Text, IV | at another, the children engage in truceless war against
439 Text, V | promised nothing easy or engaging, but rather infinite toils
440 Text, IX | reason, the unrest which it engenders in the soul, and not, by
441 Text, IV | something more than pleasure and enjoyment in such writers may derive
442 Text, VII | its guilt, since he has entertained impure thoughts.34 It is
443 Text, V(17) | whom he always showed great enthusiasm. During the first part of
444 Text, II | possessors of them as objects of envy; but we place our hopes
445 Text, VI(26) | nulla capitalior est quam eorum qui quum maxime fallunt,
446 Text, VII(29) | correctly ; St. Basil reads : 'Ep' e0xqrou_j qumo_j o(pli/
447 Text, IV(10) | 4 See p. 51; Basil, Epist. i.~
448 Text, VIII(39)| Marsyas, Schol. in Aristoph Eq. 9 ; see also Plutarch,
449 Outl | man will make the fatal error of disregarding them.
450 Text, VIII(38)| voluptuousness, and in order to escape falling into the hands of
451 Text, VIII | crowns, or would they have escaped being laughed at for their
452 Text, VII | still clung to him, Pericles escorted him with a light, in order
453 Text, VI(26) | id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur;' Plutarch, Flatterer
454 Text, VI(26) | injustitiae nulla capitalior est quam eorum qui quum maxime
455 Text, V | he made Odysseus so much esteemed by the other Phaeacians
456 Text, II | to you that if one should estimate and gather together all
457 | etc
458 Text, X(68) | 1 Cf. Eur. Heracl. 1002, and Bartlett,
459 Text, VII | caring. Then when it was evening and dusk, and the fellow
460 Text, VIII | preliminary training for those events in which wreaths of victory
461 Text, V | their gold, for virtue is an everlasting possession, while riches
462 | everywhere
463 Text, I | my own experience I have evolved something more useful. Now
464 Text, V | vice. I do not remember the exact words, but as far as I recollect
465 Text, IX | dangerous. Since, then, this exaggerated care of the body is harmful
466 Text, IV | very beginning, we must examine each of their teachings,
467 Text, IX | need. Forsooth, those who exceed the bounds of necessity,
468 Text, VIII | would not have been his to excel all in music, he who was
469 | except
470 Text, IX | Academy, in order to remove excessive bodily comfort, as one prunes
471 Text, IX | As Solon,54 the son of Execestides, puts it, 'No definite limit
472 Text, VI | For he, who by his works exemplifies the wisdom which with others
473 Text, II | imitate those who perform the exercises of military practice, for
474 Text, V | please the eye, while she exhaled charms, and a multitude
475 Text, V | these things than so to exhort us to virtue, and so to
476 Text, VIII | objects for which his craft exists, would there be rime or
477 Text, X | choose the better life, and expecting that association will render
478 Text, VII(33) | Life of Alexander ; Arrian, Exped, of Alex. ii. 12. The same
479 Text, IX | those who esteem it, and now expresses opposite sentiments when
480 Text, V(17) | mastering the secrets of Greek expression. A pagan born and bred,
481 Text, IV | just as bees know how to extract honey from flowers, which
482 Text, V | arranged herself to please the eye, while she exhaled charms,
483 Text, IX(60) | odes, in elegies, and in fables, but his great and formidable
484 Text, IX | for it requires a higher faculty for any one of us, whoever
485 Text, II | the shadow or the dream fails of the reality. Or rather,
486 Text, V | that the way is smooth and fair, easy and light to the foot,
487 Text, VIII(38)| and in order to escape falling into the hands of the besiegers
488 Text, VI(26) | quam eorum qui quum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni
489 Text, IV | other business affairs will falsehood be of any help to us Christians,
490 Text, X(68) | Heracl. 1002, and Bartlett, Fam. Quot. (9th ed.), p. 809. ~
491 Outl | by scorning riches and fame, and by subordinating all
492 Text, IV | song of the sirens,10 for familiarity with evil writings paves
493 Text, I | at every turn,1 have so familiarized me with human affairs, that
494 Text, X | I will laugh as at the fancies of a child, since I look
495 Text, VIII | Homer, put down as neither a farmer, nor a vine-dresser, nor
496 Text, VIII | recount them, while we are fast asleep and leading care-free
497 Text, V | attention is to be chiefly fastened upon those many passages
498 Outl | young man will make the fatal error of disregarding them.
499 Text, I(1) | of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. viii, Prolegomena.~
500 Text, IX | good repute; this is the fawner's trick. Just as the polypus