Book, Aphorism

 1      Pre        |      and reverence due to the ancients remains untouched and undiminished,
 2      Pre        |    going the same road as the ancients, have something better to
 3        1, LVI   |    been well laid down by the ancients, nor despising what is well
 4        1, LXI   |       leaves the honor of the ancients untouched. For they are
 5        1, LXXXIV|     of the world in which the ancients lived, and which, though
 6        1, XCIX  | without calling in any of the ancients to our aid and support,
 7        1, XCIX  |    were long ago known to the ancients, and have their settings
 8        1, XCIX  |       Atlantis with which the ancients were acquainted, or now
 9        1, XCIX  |    been done before; that the ancients themselves took the same
10        1, XCIX  |     in ancient times. For the ancients, too, it will be said, provided
11        1, XCIX  |     that was in use among the ancients is by themselves professed
12        1, XCIX  |     which were unknown to the ancients, and of which the origin,
13        1, XII   |    And it was observed by the ancients that on the top of Olympus
14        1, XII   |  attrition; insomuch that the ancients fancied that the heavenly
15        1, XXXI  |     and battering-rams of the ancients, though he had done it with
16        1, XXXVI |       many moderns, with some ancients, maintain. The reasons for
17        1, XXXIX |      bare suspicion among the ancients. They seem also to point
18        1, XLVI  |   from the hourglasses of the ancients, which contained water instead
19        1, XLVIII|     it among some both of the ancients and of the moderns, who