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A. D. GODLEY Adeimantus AESCHYLUS Anaxagoras ARISTOTLE Athenians Athens believe better birth body born called cause charioteer creatures Croesus Cronos dead death deeds Demeter desire DIOGENES Dionysus divine dwell earth EMPEDOCLES eternal EURIPIDES Euth Euthyphro evil exist eyes father fire folly frag gifts give Glaucon goddess gods Greeks Hades hand hear heart heaven HERACLEITUS HERODOTUS Hesiod Homer honour hope human immortal impiety impious justice Lacedaemonians living mankind matter means Melians Mind moon mortal mother motion moved nature never Olympus oracle Orphic Pericles perish Persephone Pheid philosopher piety PINDAR Plato poets Poseidon prayer punishment reason rites sacrifice Simmias sleep Socr Socrates SOPHOCLES sort soul spirit Streps Strepsiades suffer surely tell thee things thou thought THUCYDIDES true truth unrighteous whole wicked wings wisdom wise words wrong XENOPHANES Zagreus Zeus
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Page 146 - Gods; we have told you why we expect to stand as high in their good opinion as you. And then as to the Lacedaemonians — when you imagine that out of very shame they will assist you, we admire the simplicity of your idea, but we do not envy you the folly of it. The Lacedaemonians are exceedingly virtuous among themselves, and according to their national standard of morality. But in respect of their dealings with others, although many things might be said, a word is enough to describe them — of...
Page 149 - Of all the Hellenic actions which took place in this war, or indeed of all Hellenic actions which are on record, this was the greatest — the most glorious to the victors, the most ruinous to the vanquished; for they were utterly and at all points defeated, and their sufferings were prodigious. Fleet and army perished from the face of the earth; nothing was saved, and of the many who went forth few returned home.
Page 162 - Well, but tell me from Whom comes the bolt through the gloom, with its awful and terrible flashes; And wherever it turns, some it singes and burns, and some it reduces to ashes ! For this 'tis quite plain, let who will send the rain, that Zeus against perjurers dashes.
Page 160 - Well then, be it known, these send it alone; I can prove it by arguments strong. Was there ever a shower seen to fall in an hour when the sky was all cloudless and blue ? Yet on a fine day, when the Clouds were away, he might send one, according to you.
Page 163 - That's exactly the thing that I suffered one Spring, at the great feast of Zeus, I admit : I'da paunch in the pot, but I wholly forgot about making the safety-valve slit. So it spluttered and swelled, while the saucepan I held, till at last with a vengeance it flew : Took me quite by surprise, dung-bespattered my eyes, and scalded my face black and blue ! CHOR.
Page 164 - Tis yours, old man, some method to contrive This fight to win: He would not without arms wherewith to strive So bold have been. He knows, be sure, whereon to trust. His eager bearing proves he must. So come and tell us from what cause this sad dispute began; Come, tell us how it first arose: do tell us if you can.
Page 145 - Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a law of their nature wherever they can rule they will. This law was not made by us, and we are* not the...
Page 166 - And he began the shameful tale Euripides has told How a brother and a sister lived incestuous lives of old. Then, then I could no more restrain, but first I must confess With strong abuse I loaded him, and so, as you may guess, We stormed and bandied threat for threat: till out at last he flew, And smashed and thrashed and thumped and bumped and bruised me black and blue. Pheidippides. And rightly too, who coolly dared Euripides to blame, Most sapient bard. Strepsiades. Most sapient bard! you, what's...
Page 161 - Ay: for when to the brim filled with water they swim, by Necessity carried along, They are hung up on high in the vault of the sky, and so by Necessity strong In the midst of their course, they clash with great force, and thunder away without end.
Page 148 - In his fervour he raised his voice as he passed from one to another and spoke louder and louder, desiring that the benefit of his words might reach as far as possible. " Even now, Athenians and allies, we must hope : men have been delivered out of worse straits than these, and I would not have you judge yourselves too severely on account either of the reverses which you have sustained or of your present undeserved miseries.