Plutarch's Lives, Volumen4

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Página 299 - Dandamis behaved with more civility ; and when Onesicritus had given him an account of Pythagoras, Socrates, and Diogenes, he said, they appeared to him to have been men of genius, but to have lived with too passive a regard to the laws.
Página 383 - What is still more extraordinary, many report that a certain soothsayer forewarned him of a great danger which threatened him on the ides of March, and that when the day was come, as he was going to the senate-house, he called to the soothsayer, and said, laughing, "The ides of March are come"; to which he answered, softly, "Yes; but they are not gone.
Página 303 - THOU COMEST (FOR COME I KNOW THOU WILT), I AM CYRUS, THE FOUNDER OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE, ENVY ME NOT THE LITTLE EARTH THAT COVERS MY BODY.
Página 329 - For in less than ten years' war in Gaul, he took eight hundred cities by assault, conquered three hundred nations, and fought pitched battles, at different times, with three millions of men, one million of which he cut in pieces, and made another million prisoners.

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