Plutarch's Lives, Volumen4

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T. Longman, 1795
 

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Página 147 - Many statesmen and philosophers came to congratulate him on the occasion ; and he hoped that Diogenes of Sinope, who then lived at Corinth, would be of the number. Finding, however, that he made but little account of Alexander...
Página 209 - Others say, Dandamis entered into no discourse with the messenger, but only asked why Alexander had taken so long a journey. As to Calanus, it is certain Taxiles prevailed with him to go to Alexander. His true name was Sphines ; but...
Página 278 - 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 68 - He was empowered also to choose out of the senators fifteen lieutenants to act under him ; he was to take from the quaestors, and other public receivers, what money he pleased, and equip a fleet of 200 sail.
Página 278 - The same night, as he was in bed with his wife, the doors and windows of the room flew open at once.
Página 140 - In what shall we differ from others, if the sublimer knowledge which we gained from you, be made common to all the world ? For my part, I had rather excel the bulk of mankind in the superior parts of learning than in the extent of power and dominion. Farewell.
Página 234 - 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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