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501 Text, VIII | to arms in the midst of feasting, and then, by milder music,
502 Text, IX(57) | neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient
503 Text, I | do not misinterpret your feelings, you no longer crave your
504 Text, IX | who knows himself, or who feels the force of the wise maxim : '
505 Text, IX | releasing it from the bondage of fellowship with the bodily appetites;
506 | few
507 Text, I(1) | labors of St. Basil. Also see Fialon, Biographie de St. Basile,
508 Text, VIII | mind the wreaths and the fighters. These men endure hardships
509 Text, VIII(40)| power), which office he filled for ten years. Of his acts
510 Text, VI | self-interest to justice, finds an analogy on the stage,
511 Text, VIII | as he was, clung to it as firmly as statues soldered by lead.
512 Text, V | wasted and squalid, looked fixedly at him, and bespoke quite
513 Text, VI(26) | esse videantur;' Plutarch, Flatterer and Friend 4.~
514 Text, IV | Odysseus is said to have fled past the song of the sirens,10
515 Text, IV | portray base conduct, you must flee from them and stop up your
516 Text, IX | followers was growing very fleshy from gymnastics and hearty
517 Text, IX | check their precipitous flight, for the more they can scrape
518 Text, IX(60) | as second only to Homer, flourished 650 B.C. He was a master
519 Text, IX(47) | Rep. iii. 399, Plato puts flute-players out of his ideal society. ~
520 Text, VI | alone, 'breathes; all others flutter about like shadows.' 24
521 Outl | should ornament the mind, as foliage graces the fruit-bearing
522 Text, V | latter, Hercules at length followed.23~
523 Text, IX | learning that one of his followers was growing very fleshy
524 Text, VIII | should we reject injurious foods, yet should take no thought
525 Text, V | fair, easy and light to the foot, and more pleasing than
526 Text, IX | plane, can nowhere gain a footing to check their precipitous
527 Text, IX | less a disgrace to be a fop or a pamperer of the body
528 Text, IX | things. Then I am ashamed to forbid you to load the air with
529 Text, IV | and true path of life, are forbidden by the gospel to go to law.
530 Text, IX | himself, or who feels the force of the wise maxim : 'Not
531 Text, VII | nothing more than write on his forehead, as an artisan on a statue,
532 Text, IX | is said that since Plato foresaw the dangerous influence
533 | former
534 Text, IX(60) | fables, but his great and formidable gift lay in satire. See
535 Text, IV | rail, when they represent fornicators and winebibbers, when they
536 Text, III | at the same time it puts forth for ornament the leaves
537 | forty
538 Text, X | of a child, since I look forward to that long, undying age,
539 Outl | it is at present to be fostered by the study of the pagan
540 Text, VIII(38)| is said to have carried a four-year-old heifer on his shoulders
541 Text, IV | agreeable only for their fragrance and color, even so here
542 Text, IX | with by unmanageable and frenzied horses. So let us bear in
543 Text, IV(12) | Platonic ; see, for instance, frequent passages in the Laws ii,
544 Text, VIII | restored him to his carousing friends.41 Such power to compass
545 Outl | mind, as foliage graces the fruit-bearing tree.~IV. In studying pagan
546 Text, IX | provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.' 50 Wherein
547 Text, IX | pleasures, court adulation and fulsome praise, vying with the fox
548 Outl | stored up knowledge for the future.~Conclusion: The above are
549 Text, IX | art, from which the gold gained greater beauty and worth.
550 Text, IX(60) | me I will draw the simple garb of virtue, but behind I
551 Text, VII | Pericles, but he, meanwhile, gave no heed; and they held out
552 Text, X(67) | 7 Gen. v. 27. ~
553 Text, IX | upon the sun. ~To speak generally and so far as your needs
554 Text, VIII | vehement strains, and then by gentle ones, quiet and soothe them.
555 Text, VI | neither, nor perhaps even genuinely free men. A musician would
556 Text, IX(61) | Odys. iv. 455, and Vergil, Georg. iv. 386. ~
557 Text, VI(25) | lingua, mentem injuratam gero.'~
558 Text, VIII | for the pancratium would get ready to play the lyre or
559 Text, IX(60) | his great and formidable gift lay in satire. See Rep.
560 Text, IV | other hand we shall receive gladly those passages in which
561 Text, I | should receive my words with gladness, you would be in the second
562 Text, IX | buffoons, or on bodies which goad one to passion, and to close
563 Text, IX | superfluity, be it Lydian gold-dust,52 or the work of the gold-gathering
564 Text, IX | gold-dust,52 or the work of the gold-gathering ants,53 he would disdain
565 Text, IX(52) | 1 The golden sands of the Pactolus, a
566 Text, IV | life, are forbidden by the gospel to go to law. But on the
567 Text, IX | other matters we must be governed by necessity, and only give
568 Outl | ornament the mind, as foliage graces the fruit-bearing tree.~
569 Text, V | the steepness, it is not granted to every man to set out,
570 Text, X | limit for the mind of man to grasp, any more than there is
571 Text, IV(13) | Maloney notes that St. Gregory Nazianzen cites this proverb
572 Text, IV | they define blissfulness by groaning tables and wanton songs.
573 Text, IX | to take the color of the ground upon which it lies, so he
574 Text, IX | one of his followers was growing very fleshy from gymnastics
575 Text, IV | Therefore the soul must be guarded with great care, lest through
576 Text, IX | is some satisfaction in guarding hidden treasure. Of a truth,
577 Text, VIII | his ship to the winds, but guides it toward the anchorage;
578 Text, VII | adultery, is not free from its guilt, since he has entertained
579 Text, VIII(39)| llwj ti sofo&n: pa&shj d' h(ma&rtane te/xnhj. ~'Whom
580 Text, IX | than is necessary on one's hair and clothes is, in the words
581 Text, VIII | to make these our own by half-hearted efforts ? Surely, were an
582 Text, VIII | the rushing chariot to a halt, and thus hardened himself.
583 Text, VIII(38)| escape falling into the hands of the besiegers of Nineveh,
584 Text, VIII | or wherever else it may happen to be. While he who unintentionally
585 Text, IX | it that when Pythagoras happened upon some drunken revelers,
586 Text, VIII | chariot to a halt, and thus hardened himself. Then Milo 38 could
587 Text, VI | free men. A musician would hardly put up with a lyre which
588 Text, IX | exaggerated care of the body is harmful to the body itself, and
589 Text, IV | each of their teachings, to harmonize it with our ultimate purpose,
590 Text, VI | chorus not singing in perfect harmony. But every man is divided
591 Text, VIII | the passions of men by his harsh and vehement strains, and
592 | hath
593 Text, IX | whether one lends his ear to healthy or to vicious music. Therefore
594 Text, IX | wealth.' 55 Also, one should hear Theognis,56 the teacher,
595 Text, IX | fleshy from gymnastics and hearty eating, said to him, 'Will
596 Text, IX | as he is protected from heat and cold? Likewise in other
597 Text, II | part of the possessions of heaven; rather, that all the precious
598 Outl | task, the winning of the heavenly crown.~IX. This end is to
599 Text, VIII(38)| carried a four-year-old heifer on his shoulders through
600 Text, IX | unbearable as the torments of hell, where wool is combed into
601 Text, VIII | and appropriate it. If the helmsman does not blindly abandon
602 Text, IV | will falsehood be of any help to us Christians, who, having
603 Text, II | do. Accordingly, whatever helps us towards this we say that
604 Text, X(68) | 1 Cf. Eur. Heracl. 1002, and Bartlett, Fam.
605 Text, VIII | and to be announced by the herald as victor.37~Will it then
606 Text, IX | acres of land, and more herds of cattle than may be counted.
607 Text, X(66) | Tartessus in Spain. According to Herodotus (vii. 21) he ascended the
608 | herself
609 Text, IX | satisfaction in guarding hidden treasure. Of a truth, one
610 Text, IV | Zeus, chief of all and most high, things of which one cannot
611 Text, IX | man,' 43 for it requires a higher faculty for any one of us,
612 Text, IX | to the body itself, and a hindrance to the soul, it is sheer
613 Text, VI(25) | 2 Hippolytus 612; see Cicero, De Off.
614 Text, VII | in the pages of poet or historian, we must not fail to profit
615 Text, I(1) | 1 See Newman, Historical Sketches, vol. ii. chaps,
616 Text, VIII | ballast we should be borne hither and thither through life,
617 Outl | end is to be compassed by holding the body under, by scorning
618 Text, IX | and shamefacedly returned home.46 Others at the sound of
619 Text, IV(13) | and St. John Chrysostom in Homily xxv.~
620 Text, V | naked to the strand, more honored than the prosperous Phaeacians.'
621 Text, X | who are suffering from a hopelessly incurable melancholy do
622 Text, IX | unmanageable and frenzied horses. So let us bear in mind
623 Text, VII | appeased, and cease from his hostility to him.~How invaluable it
624 Text, VIII(37)| he killed without arms a huge and fierce lion on Mount
625 Text, X | eternal I would advise you to husband resources, leaving no stone
626 Text, IX(51) | of Pythagoras 32, 34, and Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras 96,
627 Text, VI(26) | qui quum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse
628 Text, II | would preserve indelible the idea of the true virtue, become
629 Text, V | writings expressed similar ideas about virtue and vice. I
630 Text, VIII | immortal hopes for momentary idleness, lest reproaches come upon
631 Text, V(17) | among his students. 'His idol was Greek style, and for
632 Text, IX | shall we, while manifestly ignoring riches and scorning sensual
633 Text, IX | with a little, suffering no ill.' 57 ~I also admire the
634 Text, IX | against all men, and be in ill-favor and in danger for virtue'
635 Text, IX(51) | Pythagoreans is discussed and illustrated in Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras
636 Text, V(17) | Greek writers, whom he often imitated with success, and for whom
637 Text, VII | teachings, and not designed imitation of them. What, then, was
638 Text, II | words. But so long as our immaturity forbids our understanding
639 Text, VIII(37)| B.C. 408. His size was immense, and the most marvelous
640 Text, X(65) | 5 Tithonus obtained immortality from the gods, but not eternal
641 Text, IX(46) | Among the Pythagoreans great importance was attached to the influence
642 Outl | above are some of the more important precepts; others the writer
643 Text, VII | hold the Christian precepts impracticable. But I will not overlook
644 Text, V | lessons of youth make a deep impression, because the soul is then
645 Text, IX | you not stop making your imprisonment harder for yourself?' 51
646 Text, VII | since he has entertained impure thoughts.34 It is hard to
647 Text, VIII(38)| 2 'According to an inaccurate classical tradition, the
648 Text, VIII | laughed at for their bodily incapacity? On the other hand, certainly
649 Text, VIII | Alexander, he is said to have incited the general to arms in the
650 Text, V | he might mean by the god, inclines the balances for men, now
651 Text, VIII | they use every means to increase their strength, they sweat
652 Text, X | sacred writings, but it is incumbent upon us, for the present,
653 Text, IX | one who had learned to be independent of this sort of thing would
654 Text, X | For those who are slightly indisposed visit physicians in person,
655 Text, VIII(41)| see Bergk 747, and Plato indulges in a sophistical discussion
656 Text, IX | a robe of state or in an inexpensive garment, so long as he is
657 Text, IX | influence than with other infamous things. Then I am ashamed
658 Text, V | or engaging, but rather infinite toils and hardships, and
659 Text, II | true virtue, become first initiated in the pagan lore, then
660 Text, VI(25) | Juravi lingua, mentem injuratam gero.'~
661 Text, VI(26) | 13. 41 : 'Totius autem injustitiae nulla capitalior est quam
662 Text, X | to set out for Egypt, was inquiring what course he could pursue
663 Text, IX(43) | Scip. 8 ; Lactantius, Div. Inst. ii. 3. 8. ~
664 Text, VII | not.' 32 One who has been instructed in the pagan examples will
665 Text, VIII | deeds? If there were no intelligence sitting at the tiller of
666 Text, VIII | quick appreciation of our interests? For is there not some end
667 Text, V(17) | Christianity, so far as it did not interfere with the study of the Greek
668 Text, V | enduring of shipwreck.18 The interpreter of the poetic mind argued
669 Text, V | heard from one skilful in interpreting the mind of a poet,17 all
670 Text, V(17) | on terms of affectionate intimacy with St. Chrysostom and
671 Text, X | sure, we shall become more intimately acquainted with these precepts
672 Text, I(3) | 3 See Introd. p. 28, on the education
673 Outl | OUTLINE~I. Introduction: Out of the abundance of
674 Text, VII | his hostility to him.~How invaluable it is to have such examples
675 Text, IX | very proud of the gold and ivory with which the one constructed
676 Text, IX(53) | 2 Cf. Herod, iii. 102 ; Jacobs on Aelian, Nat. Animal,
677 Text, IX | poured into a perforated jar, and where work is never
678 Text, IV(13) | Letter xxxviii, and St. John Chrysostom in Homily xxv.~
679 Text, V(17) | ardent admirer of the Emperor Julian, but his devotion to the
680 Text, IX | Jupiter of Elis, the other the Juno of Argos, they would have
681 Text, IX | constructed the statue of the Jupiter of Elis, the other the Juno
682 Text, VI(25) | Cicero, De Off. 3. 29. 108 : 'Juravi lingua, mentem injuratam
683 Text, VIII | unreasoning animals must keep before him in all his words
684 Outl | and injurious knowledge, keeping clearly in mind the Christian'
685 Text, VIII(37)| of his strength, how he killed without arms a huge and
686 Text, IX | baseness are produced by this kind of music.44 On the other
687 Text, II | the esteem of all men, nor kingly authority, nor, indeed,
688 Text, VI | players frequently appear as kings and rulers, though they
689 Text, VIII(40)| acts as a ruler nothing is known ; of his elegiac poems,
690 Text, V | the way steep, and full of labor and pain, that leads toward
691 Text, X | shrink because it is hard and laborious, but, remembering the precept
692 Text, I(1) | account of the trials and labors of St. Basil. Also see Fialon,
693 Text, V | made Odysseus as completely lack embarrassment, though seen
694 Text, X | Methuselah 67 who is said to have lacked but thirty years of being
695 Text, IX(43) | Cicero, Somn. Scip. 8 ; Lactantius, Div. Inst. ii. 3. 8. ~
696 Text, VIII(41)| Pol. iii. 14. 9 ; Diog. Laert i. 4. ~
697 Text, X(64) | 4 See Diogenes Laertius i. 82-88, for this and other
698 Text, IX | controlled, and to quiet, by the lash of reason, the unrest which
699 | last
700 | latter
701 Outl | pagan literature virtue is lauded in deeds as well as in words,
702 Text, X | since the creation, I will laugh as at the fancies of a child,
703 Text, VIII | would they have won ready laurels or crowns, or would they
704 Text, IV | forbidden by the gospel to go to law. But on the other hand we
705 Text, V(19) | 2 The great Athenian law-giver. In the tract, How One may
706 Text, IX(60) | great and formidable gift lay in satire. See Rep. ii.
707 Text, V | the princess reverence the leader of the Cephallenians, though
708 Text, IV | without blushing, we shall leave to the stage. I have the
709 Text, V(22) | through Greece, delivering lectures for money. He paid special
710 Text, IX | commanded the flute-player, who led the merry-making, to change
711 Text, VIII(41)| the Great ii. 2; Cicero, Legg. 2. 12; Dryden, Alexander'
712 Text, IX | does it make whether one lends his ear to healthy or to
713 Text, VIII(40)| Greece ; b. at Mytilene in Lesbos, 652 B.C. In 589 P. was
714 Text, IV(13) | Nazianzen cites this proverb in Letter xxxviii, and St. John Chrysostom
715 Text, IV | lest through our love for letters it receive some contamination
716 Text, VII(36) | 4 Lev. xix. 12, or Deut. v. ii.~
717 Text, V(17) | 4 Libanius, b. at Antioch in 314 ;
718 Text, I(1) | Wace and Schaff, Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene
719 Text, VIII | Therefore we must not be light-minded, nor exchange our immortal
720 | likely
721 Text, IX | protected from heat and cold? Likewise in other matters we must
722 Text, X | restrictions upon it, since he limited its usefulness to the earthly
723 Text, IX | the Mysian Pythius,58 with limitless acres of land, and more
724 Text, X | branches of learning. In line with this Bias 63 said to
725 Text, VI(25) | Off. 3. 29. 108 : 'Juravi lingua, mentem injuratam gero.'~
726 Text, VIII(37)| without arms a huge and fierce lion on Mount Olympus, etc.'
727 Text, I | to follow whither they list, but that, while receiving
728 Text, IV | songs. Least of all shall we listen to them when they tell us
729 Text, III | affinity between the two literatures, a knowledge of them should
730 Text, V | the luxury in which they lived, all admired and emulated
731 Text, VIII(39)| ou1t' a)roth~ra. ~Ou!t a!llwj ti sofo&n: pa&shj d' h(ma&
732 Text, IX | ashamed to forbid you to load the air with all kinds of
733 Text, IX | this sort of thing would be loath to attempt anything mean
734 Text, V | was not one of them who longed for anything else except
735 Text, V | other, wasted and squalid, looked fixedly at him, and bespoke
736 Text, VII | the statement that he who looks upon a woman to lust after
737 Text, VIII(39)| Margites, a poem which is lost, and which ridiculed a man
738 Text, IX | attempt anything mean or low, either in word or deed.
739 Text, V(23) | 32 ; Chrysostom, Regnum ; Lucian, Somnium.~
740 Text, VII | who looks upon a woman to lust after her, even though he
741 Text, IX | the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.' 50 Wherein is
742 Text, V | Phaeacians that, abandoning the luxury in which they lived, all
743 Text, IV | rhetoricians in the art of lying. For neither in the courts
744 Text, VIII(39)| llwj ti sofo&n: pa&shj d' h(ma&rtane te/xnhj. ~'Whom the
745 | makes
746 Text, X | class, nor show a spiritual malady like that of their bodies!
747 Text, IV(13) | ta_n spa&rton a1gontaj. Maloney notes that St. Gregory Nazianzen
748 Text, IX | Again, shall we, while manifestly ignoring riches and scorning
749 Text, VI | represent some marvel of manly beauty, and the subject
750 Text, I | For my time of life, my many-sided training, yea, my adequate
751 Text, I | affairs, that I am able to map out the safest course for
752 Text, I | good who follows the course marked out by others, but he who
753 Text, VI | painter should represent some marvel of manly beauty, and the
754 Text, VIII(37)| was immense, and the most marvelous stories are related of his
755 Text, V(17) | time he had rare success in mastering the secrets of Greek expression.
756 Text, VII(34) | 2 Matt. v. 28.~
757 Text, VI | wisdom which with others is a matter of theory alone, 'breathes;
758 Text, IX | cold? Likewise in other matters we must be governed by necessity,
759 Text, II | at our command, and more mature hearers than you.~And yet,
760 Outl | While this ideal will be matured later by the study of the
761 Text, VI(26) | est quam eorum qui quum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri
762 Text, V | youth to virtue, pray what meaning may we suppose that Hesiod
763 Text, X | old age.' 64 By means he meant virtue, but he placed too
764 | meanwhile
765 Text, IX | not its pleasures, the measure of need. Forsooth, those
766 Text, IV | testing each stone by the measuring-line.' 13
767 Text, VIII | the contests. If they had meddled with the airs of Marsyas
768 Text, VII | endure their wrath with meekness;' 31 and to the other: '
769 Outl | words of such men should meet with more than mere theoretical
770 Text, VII | vowed death to Euclid of Megara,28 but he in turn vowed
771 Text, X | from a hopelessly incurable melancholy do not even admit the physicians
772 Text, V(23) | 3 See Xenophon, Memorab. ii. I. 22 ; Cicero, De
773 Text, VI(25) | 29. 108 : 'Juravi lingua, mentem injuratam gero.'~
774 Text, V(22) | the other sophists, he is mentioned with respect by Xenophon
775 Text, X | earthly life. For if any one mentions the old age of Tithonus,65
776 Text, V | with him all that is not merely accessory tends to this
777 Text, IX | flute-player, who led the merry-making, to change the tune and
778 Text, VIII | at his mark; if also the metal-worker or the carpenter seeks to
779 Text, X | Arganthonius,66 or of that Methuselah 67 who is said to have lacked
780 Text, VIII | the general to arms in the midst of feasting, and then, by
781 Text, V | once apparent from their mien. The one had arranged herself
782 Text, X | each book are wont, like mighty rivers, to gain accessions
783 Text, VIII | of feasting, and then, by milder music, to have restored
784 Text, II | perform the exercises of military practice, for they acquire
785 Text, X | thirty years of being a millenarian, or even if he reckons the
786 Text, VIII | thus hardened himself. Then Milo 38 could not be thrust from
787 Text, IX | and serve it. ~If we were minded to disregard attention to
788 Text, I | unqualifiedly give over your minds to these men, as a ship
789 Text, IX(58) | he derived from his gold mines in the neighborhood of Celaenae,
790 Text, IX | not bury himself in the mire of sensuality must deem
791 Outl | which truth appears as in a mirror.~III. Profane learning should
792 Text, II | it were in shadows and in mirrors. Thus we imitate those who
793 Text, I | you. Indeed, if I do not misinterpret your feelings, you no longer
794 Text, III | Just as it is the chief mission of the tree to bear its
795 Text, VIII | the master, they adopt the mode of life which he prescribes,
796 Text, IX(44) | effects of the different modes. ~
797 Text, IX | soul, never leaving an idle moment for other things? Accordingly,
798 Text, VIII | exchange our immortal hopes for momentary idleness, lest reproaches
799 Text, V(22) | delivering lectures for money. He paid special attention
800 Text, IX(44) | for a discussion of the moral effects of the different
801 Text, III | appearance not untimely. That Moses, whose name is a synonym
802 Text, VIII(37)| huge and fierce lion on Mount Olympus, etc.' See Pausanias
803 Text, IX | riches fail us we should not mourn for them, and if we have
804 Text, VI | says with Euripides, 'The mouth indeed hath sworn, but the
805 Text, V | she exhaled charms, and a multitude of delights swarmed in her
806 Text, VIII | or, if you will, in the musical contests; for the contestants
807 | myself
808 Text, IX | with the talents of the Mysian Pythius,58 with limitless
809 Text, IX | unless, as in the case of the mythological dragons, there is some satisfaction
810 Text, VIII(40)| Wise Men of Greece ; b. at Mytilene in Lesbos, 652 B.C. In 589
811 Text, III | untimely. That Moses, whose name is a synonym for wisdom,
812 | namely
813 Text, IX(53) | 102 ; Jacobs on Aelian, Nat. Animal, iv. 27. ~
814 Text, II | avail myself of a still more natural comparison, by as much as
815 Text, I | starting upon their careers. By nature's common bond I stand in
816 Text, II | upon it should be held as naught. But to explain what this
817 Text, IV(13) | Maloney notes that St. Gregory Nazianzen cites this proverb in Letter
818 Text, VIII | sweep along all that came near our path and appropriate
819 Text, IX | course he would make the necessities of life, not its pleasures,
820 Text, IX | disdain in proportion to its needlessness, and of course he would
821 Text, IX | scrupulous about their tools, but neglectful of their trade? On the contrary,
822 Text, IX(58) | from his gold mines in the neighborhood of Celaenae, in Phrygia.
823 Text, I(1) | 1 See Newman, Historical Sketches, vol.
824 Text, I(1) | Schaff, Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers,
825 Text, VIII(38)| hands of the besiegers of Nineveh, ended his worthless life
826 | none
827 Text, V | to this end. There is a notable instance of this where Homer
828 Text, VIII(38)| king of Assyria. He was noted for effeminacy and voluptuousness,
829 Text, VIII | about the studies which nourish our souls, but as a torrent
830 | nowhere
831 Text, IV | useful, and guard against the noxious.12 So, from the very beginning,
832 Text, VI(26) | Totius autem injustitiae nulla capitalior est quam eorum
833 Text, III(8) | proselqei=n thqewri/atou~ O1ntoj.~
834 Text, VII(29) | Aplou~j e0p e0xqroi=j o9pli/zein xe/ra. ~
835 Text, VI | writings. Such men must one obey, and must try to realize
836 Text, IX | purse-proud man was never an object of admiration with him until
837 Text, VIII | unintentionally violates his obligations perchance receives some
838 Text, III | two kinds of education to obtain a simile? Just as it is
839 Text, X(65) | 5 Tithonus obtained immortality from the gods,
840 Text, V(19) | lines to Solon, but they occur among the Gnomes of Theognis,
841 Text, IX(60) | B.C. He was a master in odes, in elegies, and in fables,
842 Text, VIII | which wreaths of victory are offered, and no one by training
843 Text, VIII(40)| with absolute power), which office he filled for ten years.
844 Text, IX | For passions which are the offspring of servility and baseness
845 Text, IX | to smear yourselves with ointment. Again, what further argument
846 Text, VIII(37)| at the Olympic games in Ol. 93, B.C. 408. His size
847 Text, VIII | to receive the crown of olive, or of parsley, or some
848 Text, VIII(38)| shoulders through the stadium at Olympia, and then to have eaten
849 Text, IV | all of their poems without omitting a single word. When they
850 Text, VIII | strains, and then by gentle ones, quiet and soothe them.
851 Text, IX | shall we think that we are open to less reproach if we hold
852 Text, IX | lies, so he conforms his opinions to those of his associates. ~
853 Text, IX | esteem it, and now expresses opposite sentiments when he sees
854 Text, II | poets, with historians, with orators, indeed with all men who
855 Text, VIII(39)| san, ou1t' a)roth~ra. ~Ou!t a!llwj ti sofo&n: pa&shj
856 Text, III(8) | 2 ou3tw proselqei=n thqewri/atou~
857 Text, VIII | rime or reason in our being outclassed by these men, mere artisans
858 Outl | OUTLINE~I. Introduction: Out of
859 Text, IX | heard physicians say that over-healthiness is dangerous. Since, then,
860 Text, VII | impracticable. But I will not overlook the conduct of Alexander,
861 Text, IX | no merit of theirs, and overlooking their art, from which the
862 Text, V | possessions belong to the owner no more than to another,
863 Text, V | riches are ever changing owners.' Similarly Theognis 20
864 Text, VIII(39)| Ou!t a!llwj ti sofo&n: pa&shj d' h(ma&rtane te/xnhj. ~'
865 Text, IX(52) | The golden sands of the Pactolus, a small river in Lydia,
866 Text, VII | or are cherished in the pages of poet or historian, we
867 Text, V | steep, and full of labor and pain, that leads toward virtue.
868 Text, IX | difference between those who take pains that the body shall be perfect,
869 Text, VI | I think it is as if a painter should represent some marvel
870 Text, VIII(38)| by burning himself in his palace. It seems certain that the
871 Text, IX | disgrace to be a fop or a pamperer of the body than to be the
872 Text, VIII | perchance receives some pardon from God, he who designedly
873 Text, VIII | the crown of olive, or of parsley, or some other branch, and
874 Text, IV | to the truth, and shall pass over the rest. And just
875 Text, IX | an aid to wisdom,49 or as Paul admonishes somewhere in
876 Text, IV | familiarity with evil writings paves the way for evil deeds.
877 Text, IX | must, as Plato puts it, pay only so much heed to the
878 Text, II | different, and in which we perceive the truth as it were in
879 Text, II | we exercise our spiritual perceptions upon profane writings, which
880 Text, IX | sieve and poured into a perforated jar, and where work is never
881 Text, II | Thus we imitate those who perform the exercises of military
882 Text, IX | kinds of sweet-smelling perfumes, or to smear yourselves
883 Text, V | toils and hardships, and perils in every land and on every
884 Text, X | if he reckons the entire period since the creation, I will
885 Text, VII | precept: 'Submit to those who persecute you, and endure their wrath
886 Text, IX | himself richer than the great Persian king, since he needed less
887 Text, VIII(37)| See Pausanias vi. 5 ; Persius i. 4.~
888 Text, IX(48) | 1 See Phil. iii. 19. ~
889 Text, VII | fail in the practice of philosophy.27 Again, a man in a passion
890 Text, IX(58) | neighborhood of Celaenae, in Phrygia. When Xerxes arrived at
891 Text, VIII | art, when once he played Phrygian airs on the flute to Alexander,
892 Text, VIII | Marsyas or of Olympus, the Phrygians,39 abandoning dust and exercise,
893 Text, IV(13) | 2 to_n pi/qon po_ti\ ta_n spa&rton
894 Text, VI | such a man as the artist pictures on the canvas. To praise
895 Text, VII | to women.33 This is of a piece with the statement that
896 Text, VIII | rather truth in the maxim of Pittacus 40 which says, 'It is hard
897 Text, II | objects of envy; but we place our hopes upon the things
898 Text, X | he meant virtue, but he placed too great restrictions upon
899 Text, V | this episode, Homer very plainly says: 'Be virtue your concern,
900 Text, VIII | thither through life, without plan or purpose,~An analogy may
901 Text, IX | sliding down an inclined plane, can nowhere gain a footing
902 Text, V | because the soul is then plastic, and therefore they are
903 Text, IV(12) | selectiveness in reading is Platonic ; see, for instance, frequent
904 Text, VIII | By this art, when once he played Phrygian airs on the flute
905 Text, VI | analogy on the stage, for the players frequently appear as kings
906 Text, X | association will render it pleasant, we shall busy ourselves
907 Text, V | had arranged herself to please the eye, while she exhaled
908 Text, IX | praise, and to study what pleases the crowd. Rather truth
909 Text, V | light to the foot, and more pleasing than the other, which leads
910 Text, VII(29) | Ep' e0xqrou_j qumo_j o(pli/zei xe/ra; but Euripides: '
911 Text, X | May this now not be your plight, as would seem to be the
912 Text, VIII(39)| neither a delver, nor a ploughman, ~Nor any other useful thing,
913 Text, IV(13) | 2 to_n pi/qon po_ti\ ta_n spa&rton a1gontaj.
914 Text, V | The interpreter of the poetic mind argued that, in this
915 Text, V | mind of a poet,17 all the poetry of Homer is a praise of
916 Text, IV | unawares, as men drink in poison with honey. We shall not
917 Text, IX | his wealth. If Phidias and Polycletus 59 had been very proud of
918 Text, VIII | lyre or the flute. At least Polydamas 37 would not, for before
919 Text, IX | fawner's trick. Just as the polypus is said to take the color
920 Text, V(17) | Constantinople, he was very popular, and St. Basil was then
921 Text, IV | such conduct. But when they portray base conduct, you must flee
922 Text, IX | should not think more of possessing them than of using them
923 Text, II | worthy of desire, or the possessors of them as objects of envy;
924 Text, VIII | victor.37~Will it then be possible for us, to whom are held
925 Text, I(1) | Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. viii, Prolegomena.~
926 Text, IX | is drawn in a sieve and poured into a perforated jar, and
927 Text, IX | a footing to check their precipitous flight, for the more they
928 Text, VI | speeches, while in private preferring pleasures to temperance,
929 Text, VIII | prepare themselves by a preliminary training for those events
930 Text, VIII | life before the contest is preparatory to it. Then they strip themselves
931 Text, VIII | by their training they prepared themselves for the contests.
932 Text, VIII | the mode of life which he prescribes, though it is most unpleasant,
933 Text, II | must we also, if we would preserve indelible the idea of the
934 Text, V(17) | to the Apostate did not prevent him from associating on
935 Text, II | this life only. 4 Neither pride of ancestry, nor bodily
936 Text, IX | been laughed at, because priding themselves in treasure produced
937 Text, V | where Homer first made the princess reverence the leader of
938 Text, V(17) | but acquired his education principally by private study of the
939 Text, I | to recommend to you the principles which I deem most desirable,
940 Text, VIII | Sardanapalus38 would take the first prize, or Margites 39 if you will,
941 Text, IX | should be in little danger of prizing anything else unduly. For
942 Text, VIII | or the carpenter seeks to produce the objects for which his
943 Text, I(1) | Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. viii, Prolegomena.~
944 Text, V | quite another thing. For she promised nothing easy or engaging,
945 Text, V | With such a display, and promising still more, she sought to
946 Text, I | considerations, young men, prompt me to recommend to you the
947 Text, IX(59) | canon with respect to the proportions of the human body. ~
948 Text, V | the sentiment, in plain prose it ran somewhat as follows:
949 Text, III(8) | 2 ou3tw proselqei=n thqewri/atou~ O1ntoj.~
950 Text, V | strand, more honored than the prosperous Phaeacians.' And, indeed,
951 Text, VIII(41)| discussion of the ode in Protagoras 338. See also Arist. Pol.
952 Text, IX | garment, so long as he is protected from heat and cold? Likewise
953 Text, IX(61) | 1 Proteus; see Odys. iv. 455, and
954 Text, IX | Polycletus 59 had been very proud of the gold and ivory with
955 Text, V | appeared before him, who proved to be Virtue and Vice. Though
956 Text, IX(52) | small river in Lydia, were proverbial, for this river was one
957 Text, IX(57) | 6 Bergk ii. 218; compare Proverbs xxx. 8 : 'Give me neither
958 Text, IX | superior to passion. We must provide it with the necessary food,
959 Text, IX | passage: 'Let no one make provision for the flesh, to fulfill
960 Text, IX | excessive bodily comfort, as one prunes the rank shoots of the vines.
961 Text, IX(43) | 1 Perhaps Ps.-Plato, Axiochtts 365 ;
962 Text, IX | which David, the sacred psalmist, is said to have used to
963 Text, VI | canvas. To praise virtue in public with brilliant words and
964 Text, VIII | doubtless has a far greater punishment to endure. ~
965 Text, IX | harder for the man who is not pure in heart to gain this knowledge
966 Text, IX | far as your needs demand, purity of soul embraces these things:
967 Text, II | they apply the dye, be it purple or any other color, so indeed
968 Text, IX | when he said that a rich, purse-proud man was never an object
969 Text, VIII(38)| games, and as often at the Pythian. He is said to have carried
970 Text, VIII(39)| ou1t a1r skapth~ra qeoi\ qe/san, ou1t' a)roth~ra. ~
971 Text, VIII(39)| n d' ou1t a1r skapth~ra qeoi\ qe/san, ou1t' a)roth~ra. ~
972 Text, IV(13) | 2 to_n pi/qon po_ti\ ta_n spa&rton a1gontaj.
973 Text, VI(26) | injustitiae nulla capitalior est quam eorum qui quum maxime fallunt,
974 Text, VI(26) | capitalior est quam eorum qui quum maxime fallunt, id
975 Text, VIII | artisans as they are, in quick appreciation of our interests?
976 Text, V | fixedly at him, and bespoke quite another thing. For she promised
977 Text, III | ornament the leaves which quiver on its boughs, even so the
978 Text, VII(29) | Basil reads : 'Ep' e0xqrou_j qumo_j o(pli/zei xe/ra; but Euripides: '
979 Text, X(68) | 1002, and Bartlett, Fam. Quot. (9th ed.), p. 809. ~
980 Text, VII(29) | notes that St. Basil has not quoted Euripides correctly ; St.
981 Text, VI(26) | capitalior est quam eorum qui quum maxime fallunt, id agunt,
982 Text, VII | A fellow of the street rabble once kept taunting Pericles,
983 Text, IV | poets when they scoff and rail, when they represent fornicators
984 Text, V | sentiment, in plain prose it ran somewhat as follows: While
985 Text, IX | comfort, as one prunes the rank shoots of the vines. Indeed
986 Text, IX(60) | 3 Poet, ranked by ancients as second only
987 Text, V(17) | and for his time he had rare success in mastering the
988 Text, IX | the sound of the flute 47 rave like Corybantes and Bacchantes.
989 Text, V | summit. But when he has reached the top, he sees that the
990 Text, IV(12) | toward selectiveness in reading is Platonic ; see, for instance,
991 Text, VII(29) | Euripides correctly ; St. Basil reads : 'Ep' e0xqrou_j qumo_j
992 Text, III | its boughs, even so the real fruit of the soul is truth,
993 Text, IX | soul. For to one who is really a man it is no less a disgrace
994 Text, II | dancing, and then in battle reap the reward of their training.
995 Text, VIII | his obligations perchance receives some pardon from God, he
996 Text, I | they list, but that, while receiving whatever of value they have
997 Text, X | millenarian, or even if he reckons the entire period since
998 Text, I | is best who, of himself, recognizes what is his duty, and he
999 Text, V | exact words, but as far as I recollect the sentiment, in plain
1000 Text, I | young men, prompt me to recommend to you the principles which
1001 Text, II(5) | comparison with those other recompenses which await both just and