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...ction: The Menexenus has more the character of a rhetorical exercise than any other of the Platonic works. The writer seems to have wished to emulate Thucydides, and the far slighter work of Lysias. In his rivalry with the latter, to whom in the Phaedrus Plato shows a strong antipathy, he is entirely successful, but he is not equal to Thucydides. The Menexenus, though not ...

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... any other of the Platonic works. The writer seems to have wished to emulate Thucydides, and the far slighter work of Lysias. In his rivalry with the ... ...hows a strong antipathy, he is en- tirely successful, but he is not equal to Thucydides. The Menexenus, though not without real Hellenic interest, fal... ... so-called Funeral Oration of Demosthenes is a bad and spurious imitation of Thucydides and Lysias), conformed to a regular type. They began with Gods... ...f praising men to themselves. When we remember that Antiphon is described by Thucydides as the best pleader of his day, the sat- ire on him and on the... ...e rhetorical. The remark has been often made, that in the Funeral Oration of Thucydides there is no allusion to the existence of the dead. But in the ... ...In either case, the thoughts are partly borrowed from the Funeral Oration of Thucydides; and the fact that they are so, is not in favour of the genuin... ... Athenian history. It exhibits an ac- quaintance with the funeral oration of Thucydides, and was, perhaps, intended to rival that great work. If genui...

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...Introduction: Lysimachus, the son of Aristides the Just, and Melesias, the son of the elder Thucydides, two aged men who live together, are desirous of educating their sons in the best manner. Their own education, as often happens with the sons of great men, has been neglected; and they are resolved that their child...

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...ysimachus, the son of Aristides the Just, and Melesias, the son of the elder Thucydides, two aged men who live together, are desirous of educating the... ...wett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Lysimachus, son of Aristides. Melesias, son of Thucydides. Their sons. Nicias, Laches, Socrates. LYSIMACHUS: You have... ... as follows: Melesias and I have two sons; that is his son, and he is named Thucydides, after his grandfather; and this is mine, who is also called a...

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...hey should inform themselves of and imitate his man- ner of government (as Thucydides says), or learn any thing to their good; but rather lest they sh... ...m by day, as they were at work in the fields, and murdered them. As, also, Thucydides, in his his- tory of the Peloponnesian war, tells us, that a goo... ... them to pull down the tyrant’s tent, and not to suffer his horses to run. Thucydides says, that, passing over land to the Aegaean Sea, he took ship a... ... were conveying a young Greek woman out of Ionia to a noble- man at court. Thucydides and Charon of Lampsacus say that Xerxes was dead, and that Themi... ... came to Xerxes. The chronological tables better agree with the account of Thucydides, and yet neither can their statements be said to be quite set at... ...at time two potent factions, parties, or interests in the city, the one of Thucydides and the other of Pericles, the government would come about to th... ...esent; and Lampon no less a little while after, when 253 Plutarch’s Lives Thucydides was overpowered, and the whole affairs of the state and governme... ...and of his wielding a dreadful thunderbolt in his tongue. A saying also of Thucydides, the son of Melesias, stands on record, spoken by him by way of ... ...s on record, spoken by him by way of pleasantry upon Pericles’s dexterity. Thucydides was one of the noble and distinguished citizens, and had been hi...

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...be only the meaner sort of Athenians and few in number , remember again that Thucydides had two sons, Melesias and Stephanus, whom, besides giving the... ...TUS: I have heard of them. SOCRATES: Now, can there be a doubt that 64 Meno Thucydides, whose children were taught things for which he had to spend m...

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...he drew a picture of the reverend father who was interpreting a passage of Thucydides, sketched the teacher of mathematics, the prefect, the assis- ta...

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...ensive. It includes, in Greek, Homer, Hesiod, Theocritus, the histories of Thucydides and Herodotus, and Diogenes Laertius. In Latin, Petronius, Sueto...

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..., with a burrow- ing motion, he covered his head under the thick volume of Thucydides, and the blow came down, almost breaking his neck, and shatterin...

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...I had no ap- preciation, again, of Historians, or historians; only thought Thucydides difficult and Herodotus prosy(!!), and Tacitus dull, and Livy ap...

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... to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydides Part I Koan 0 There was tranquility to be had in a long mo...

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...g the unity of the authorship of the Homeric poems. The grave and cautious Thucydides quoted without hesitation the Hymn to Apollo, [Note: Viz., the f... ...om that of the blind bard of Chios, in the Hymn to the Delian Apollo, whom Thucydides, as well as the gen- eral tenor of Grecian legend, identifies wi... ...pe of the supreme and far-spread dominion of the house of the Atrides. See Thucydides i. 9. “It is traced through the hands of Hermes, he being the we... ...ature of Greece,” vol. i. p. 263. 464 The Iliad of Homer 62 Twice Sixty: “Thucydides observes that the Bœotian ves- sels, which carried one hundred a... ..., carrying fifty each, the smallest. The average would be eighty-five, and Thucydides supposes the troops to have rowed and navigated themselves; and ... ...e total number of the Greek ships be taken at twelve hundred, according to Thucydides, although in point of fact there are only eleven hundred and eig...

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...the unity of the authorship of the Homeric po ems. The grave and cautious Thucydides quoted without hesitation the Hymn to Apollo, the authenticity o... ...om that of the blind bard of Chios, in the Hymn to the Delian Apollo, whom Thucydides, as well as the general tenor of Grecian legend, identifies with...

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...d pretences of all sorts of wicked enterprises; and that befalls us, which Thucydides said of the civil wars of his time, that, in favour of public vi... ...- tion). The name of Pausanias’ mother was Alcithea, as we are informed by Thucydides’ scholiast, who only says that it was reported, that when they s... ...mus, who was king of that country, was a little surprised at the answer of Thucydides, when inquiring of him, which was the better wrestler, Pericles,...

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...splay any great joy at the news; even when the great victory, described by Thucydides, was obtained at Mantinea, the messenger that brought the news h... ...terfuges and pleas for new trials, and Demosthenes, though he was thus, as Thucydides says, taught his business in dangers, and by his own exertions w... ... Moerocles, Polyeuctus, and Hyperides, but in the highest rank with Cimon, Thucydides, and Pericles. Certainly amongst those who were contemporary wit...

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...not, therefore, my dear children, fall into that fault which the excellent Thucydides observes is too common in human nature, to bear heavily the bein...

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...y as though the pages were open before me. I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, D...

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...self, she looked wild and eager, and said she could not stay, she had some Thucydides to do. “Won’t you stay with me a little while, quietly?” said Ma... ...ong, but it is a great plague alto- gether. Really, Margaret, I shan’t get Thucydides done.” “You must wait a little longer, please, Ethel, for I want...

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...how that the old respectable calling of freebooters by sea and land, which Thucydides, in a well-known passage, describes as so reputable an investmen... ...y to find, in a German work of some authority, so gross a misconception of Thucydides, as that of supposing him to be in jest. Nothing of the sort. Th...

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...us and others—where will one find views so injurious to human nature as in Thucydides, Juvenal, Lucian, but more particularly T acitus? When I conside... ...e in his kind. What a mockery that such an one should be reputed wise, and Thucydides be esteemed the statesman’s manual! But T acitus—I hate T acitus...

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...translated into Latin the Iliad of Homer and the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, but also the Fables of Aesop. These fables, again, were among...

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...fortune to govern great kingdoms equally well with the wisest princes, and Thucydides says, that the stupid more ordinarily do it than those of better...

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...n the words of Professor Kotlyarevsky, “lived in the dream of becoming the Thucydides of Little Russia.” How completely he disasso- ciated Ukrainia fr...

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... of the chaplain to the Lisbon factory. The plague of Athens as painted by Thucydides or Lucretius, nay even the fabulous plague of London by De Foe, ...

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... rest;" "There came a time-let us say, for convenience, with Herodotus and Thucydides-when this attention to actions was conscious and deliberate;"...

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...ular form of expres- sion in a prose-writer, as philosophic and austere as Thucydides; a form which (as it offends against logic) must offend equally ...

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...ed and ascertained the use of words; whereas, the previous genera- tion of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, &c., was a transitional period: the language w... ...cised at the expense of whomsoever at sea. The old Grecian instinct, which Thucydides states so frankly, under which all seafarers were dedicated to s...

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...e to enter into the thing now,’ proceeded Philip. ‘What are you reading?’ ‘Thucydides.’ ‘Have you come to Pericles’ oration? I must show you some note...

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... For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their se...

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... buried at Oenoe, and in this respect it is at least as old as the time of Thucydides. In conclusion it may be worth while to add the graceful epigram... ...h that this is, at least substantially, the one which has come down to us. Thucydides quotes the Delian “Hymn to Apollo,” and it is possible that the ... ... hymns. Conceivable the collection was arranged in the Alexandrine period. Thucydides, in quoting the “Hymn to Apollo,” calls it PROOIMION, which ordi... ...ly not Etruscans, but the non-Hellenic peoples of Thrace and (according to Thucydides) of Lemnos and Athens. Cp. Herodotus i. 57; Thucydides iv. 109. ...

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...ime at 42 Statesman Athens—the rule of the Five Thousand—character- ized by Thucydides as the best government of Ath- ens which he had known. It may ...

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...onfusion and incom- pleteness in the general design. As in the speeches of Thucydides, the multiplication of ideas seems to inter- fere with the power...

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...ral feeling. In the early stages of history we find piracy in high esteem. Thucydides tells us that [Greek text], or robbery, when conducted at sea, (...

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...ght easily grow up—they are cer tainly put into the mouths of speakers in Thucydides; but we are concerned at present with Plato’s description of him...

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... the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a very sufficient account...

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...eadful than a Tartar invasion has frequently been in Asia. The judgment of Thucydides, that both Europe and Asia could not resist the Scythians united... ...ople of Peloponnesus till after the Peloponnesian war. The Peloponnesians, Thucydides observes, generally left the field in the summer, and returned h...

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...ddenly accorded to our vilest passions and most abject terrors. Ever since Thucydides wrote his history , it has been on record that when the angel of...

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...ocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, though by these I profited little; all Thucydides; the Hellenics of Xenophon; a great part of Demosthenes, Aeschi...