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...ident, from his familiarity with the customs, language, and laws of Athens, Alexandria and Rome, that he must have resided at some time in each of t... ...time of Timon, his immediate follower, his teachings were somewhat known in Alexandria, where Timon for a while resided. [5] The immediate disciple... ...cles the Peripatetic in regard to Aenesidemus, that he taught Pyrrhonism in Alexandria [6] — ἐρζὲο θαὶ πξώελ ἐλ ᾽Αιεμαλδξεί ᾳ η ῇ θαη ᾽ Αἴγππηνλ Αἰλ... ...ediate successors of Timon. Aenesidemus taught about the time of our era in Alexandria, and established the school there anew; and his followers are ... ...n in some centre of philosophical schools and of learning. He never opposes Roman relations to those of the place where he is speaking, as he does i... ... speaking, as he does in regard to Athens and Alexandria. He uses the name "Romans" only three times, [1] once comparing them to the Rhodians, once... ...tions. [2] In the first two of these references, the expression "among the Romans" in the first part of the antithesis is followed by the expressio... ...ch Haas understands to be synonymous. The third reference is in regard to a Roman law, and the use of the word 'Roman' does not at all show that Sex... ... of the laws referred to by Sextus as παξ᾽ ἡκῖλ shows that they were always Roman laws, and his definition of law [3] is especially a definition of...

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...aradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s, where the whole culture was manipulated by a small gro... ...oate afirma c ă au f ăcut paradoxism în teatru scurt, teatru pentru copii, roman, proz ă scurt ă, nuvele, povestiri pentru copii ori filosofie – ca ... ...i 12 (piesele “P ăcal ă şi Balaurul”, “P ăcal ă, Zmeul şi Extraterestrul), roman 8 , proz ă scurt ă 14 , nuvele 23 (“Diploma”, “Shakespeare Alexand... ...francez ă şi englez ă. 28 Va c ăuta Pachia, probabil, acum: dramaturgi, romancieri ori nuveli şti (c ă Nichita nu se încadreaz ă în mod clar în a... ...ele constituie scânteia curentului paradoxist. De pild ă, citeam recent un roman de Danielle Steel, scriitoare american ă de succes, “The Ring”, ac ... ...intre care: Premiul special la proz ă, Concursul Na ţional “Marin Preda”, Alexandria (1982); International Eminent Poet, Madras, India (1991); Dipl...

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...not do who can do anything.' Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480? - 524?), Roman philosopher and statesman, The Consolation of Philosophy ... ..., then surely He can do as He wishes with the Laws of Nature? Not so. Philo from Alexandria convincingly demonstrated that a perfect being can ha...

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...ins! If any are to be called heretics and schismatics, it is not the Bohemians or the Greeks,47 for they take their stand upon the Gospels. It is you Romans who are the heretics and godless schismatics, for you presume upon your figments alone against the clear Scriptures of God. Wash yourself of that, men!”...

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...or its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished... ...t on this theme of the sacraments. He expects that after this “Prelude” the Romans will gird themselves for battle and attack him in force, but he i... ...s later. The first came from the pen of Augustinus Alveld, that “celebrated Romanist of Leipzig,” against whom Luther had fulminated in The Papacy at... ...at is, scriptural. Luther discusses each one of the seven sacraments of the Roman church, but devotes nearly half of the book to the Lord’s Supper a... ...cism. It was the most devastating assault Luther had yet undertaken against Roman teaching and practice. It marked Luther’s final and irrevocable bre... ...t 65 Origen of Alexandria (circa 184–253) whose principles Of allegorical exegesis were ...

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...ASUISTRY ....................................................................................................................... 143 GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS..................................................................................... 189...

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...E UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE R THE R THE R THE ROMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS ............................................... ...ve arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of their word religlo, th... ...he ancient Ro- mans. Now, considering that the word religion is originally Roman, [probably from the Etruscan,] it seems probable that it presented th... ... the Hindoos, in our own times; but, equally, why it is that the Greek and Roman idolaters of antiquity, never proselytized; no, nor could have viewed... ... hand, for a mere ‘cultus’ to attempt conversions, is nonsense. An ancient Roman could have had no motive for bringing you over to the worship of Jupi... ...d prince, Ptolemy Philadelphus, by an asso- ciation of Jewish emigrants in Alexandria. It was, as the event has shown in very many instances, an advan... ... modellings of old forms. It is remarkable, indeed, that this very city of Alexandria founded and matured this new principle of remodelling applied to... ... to the New T esta- ment; and any sense which it may have received from an Alexandrian Jew in the third century before Christ, is no more relevant to ... ...Caesarea, as the nearest Roman port for ship- ping them: thence perhaps to Alexandria, in order to benefit by the corn vessels: and from Alexandria th...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, ninet...

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... Manis; bust of Julius Caesar, from the British Museum from The Art of the Romans by H. P. Walters (1911); painting by Jean Andre Rixens (1846-1924): ... ... border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computa- tion as 48 B.C... ...anoint thy javelin with fat of swine, O Blackamoor; for before morning the Romans will make thee eat it to the very butt. The owner of the voice, a fa... ...arm, bandaged, comes through a torn sleeve. In his right hand he carries a Roman sword in its sheath. He swaggers down the courtyard, the Per- sian on... ... this mortal (indicating the Persian) told you? BELZANOR. He says that the Roman Julius Caesar, who has landed on our shores with a handful of followe... ...LEOPATRA. Of course not: I am the Queen; and I shall live in the palace at Alexandria when I have killed my brother, who drove me out of it. When I am... ...he situation; and, with a great sob of relief, falls into his arms. ACT II Alexandria. A hall on the first floor of the Palace, ending in a loggia app... ...SAR. Good! But first, let us have Cleopatra here. THEODOTUS. She is not in Alexandria: she is fled into Syria. CAESAR. I think not. (T o Rufio) Call T... ...the erring tongue of a Roman. T ota: the Queen will hold her state here in Alexandria. Engage women to attend upon her; and do all that is needful. FT...

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...s to power. Antipas was waiting for assistance and reinforcements from the Romans, but as Vitellius, the Governor of Syria, had not yet arrived, he wa... ...roves, listening to the murmur of splashing fountains, within sight of the Roman 8 Flaubert Campagna. Her glances were as tender as in former days; s... ...hands, and held it up admiringly . She was dressed in the cos- tume of the Roman ladies, with a flowing tunic and a pep- lum ornamented with tassels o... ...h an axe in the centre. And the populace trembled before the insig- nia of Roman majesty. The gorgeous litter, borne by eight men, came to a halt. Fro... ...nciple personages sur- rounding them: Tolmai, Kanthera, Schon, Ammonius of Alexandria, who brought asphalt for Antipas; Naaman, cap- 15 Herodias tain... ...ieve, or assert, that he had collected this armoury in order to attack the Romans; so he 17 Herodias hastened to offer explanations of all that Vitel...

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...trattenere,” employed by Machiavelli to indicate the policy adopted by the Roman Senate towards the weaker states of Greece, would by an Elizabethan b... ...r through excess of ambition or through fear, as one has seen already. The Romans were brought into Greece by the Aetolians; and in every other countr... ...whilst he does hold it he will have endless difficulties and troubles. The Romans, in the countries which they annexed, ob- served closely these measu... ... in- crease their power, nor did the persuasions of Philip ever induce the Romans to be his friends without first hum- bling him, nor did the influenc... ...m agree that he should retain any lordship over the coun- try. Because the Romans did in these instances what all prudent princes ought to do, who hav... ...murders, he killed a large num- ber of the people of Rome and all those of Alexandria. He became hated by the whole world, and also feared by those he...

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...dealing in women; then, ruined by a shipwreck, he had made war against the Romans with the herdsmen of Samnium. He had been taken and had escaped; he ... ...lum of Megara, at Carthage. But, as fugitives were to be given back to the Romans, he had taken advantage of the confusion to fly with the soldiers. D... ...ong the cross. The soldiers made merry around; they called him consul, and Roman citizen, and threw pebbles into his eyes to drive away the gnats. 24... ...nd there was talk of advancing in a body upon Carthage, and calling in the Romans. One evening, at supper-time, dull cracked sounds were heard approac... ...id that!) the Republic would not be forced to pay excessive tribute to the Romans; and through your excesses you have drained it of perfumes, aromatic... .... “Enough! What have you paid?” “T o Stratonicles of Corinth, and to three Alexandrian mer- chants, on these letters here (they have been realised), t... ...; he had observed the equi- noxes with the armils placed in the portico of Alexandria, and accompanied the bematists of Evergetes, who measure the sky... ...aubert had at last reconstructed. Of pyramidical shape, like the pharos of Alexandria, it was one hundred and thirty cubits high and twenty-three wide...

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...d super stition grounded into our principles as was beyond the manhood of a Roman recovery, it will be attributed first, as is most due, to the stron... ...ort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. Areopagitica Milton 8 The Romans also, for many ages trained up only to a military roughness resemb... ... we shall meet with Areopagitica Milton 9 little else but tyranny in the Roman empire, that we may not marvel, if not so often bad as good books w... ...tur, one from Lambeth House, another from the west end of Paul’s; so apishly Romanizing, that the word of com mand still was set down in Latin; as if... ... know the Bible itself put by the Papist must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of Evangelic preparation, transmitting... ...ok beginning from the old philosophy of this island. And that wise and civil Roman, Julius Agricola, who governed once here for Caesar, preferred the ...

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... end of the fifteenth century. And, indeed, it is in the references in his romance to names, persons, and places, that the most certain and valuable e... ...iscon- duct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expr... ...rent. They have only one point in common, their attack and ridicule of the romances of chivalry and of the wildly improbable adventures of knight-erra... ...h he took upon himself to develop and to add to, and in the attacks on the Roman Catholic Church. According to Jean Paul Rich- ter, Fischart is much s... ...n, the Quinze Joies de Mariage, the Cent Nouvelles, the chronicles and the romances, and even earlier works, too, such as the Roman de la Rose. Their ... ...e a version of one, the ninth. The scene takes place, not at Paris, but at Alexandria in Egypt among the Saracens, and the cook is called Fabrac. But ... ...Chaldea, Media, Assyria, Parthia, Syria, Phoenicia, Arabia, Palestina, and Alexandria, even unto Aethiopia, to see the Gymnosophists. The like example... ...d he, the Emperor Antonius Caracalla at one time destroyed the citizens of Alexandria, and at another time cut off the attendants of Artabanus, King o... ...them their names: Athena, that’s Minerva in Greek, to Athens; Alexander to Alexandria; Constantine to Constantinople; Pompey to Pompeiopolis in Cilici...

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... their rank bed, In which the holy seed revives, transmitted From those true Romans, who still there remain’d, When it was made the nest of so much il... ...rom the middle point, With us beyond but with a larger stride. E’en thus the Romans, when the year returns Of Jubilee, with better speed to rid The th... ... visage seem’d In length and bulk, as doth the pine, that tops Saint Peter’s Roman fane; and th’ other bones Of like proportion, so that from above Th... ...hts of the Round Table, and the lover of Ginevra, or Guinever, celebrated in romance. The incident alluded to seems to have made a strong impression o... ...e as a strange and hideous monster, says of her— Peggio facea nella Romana corte Che v’avea uccisi Cardinali e Papi. O... ...e directs aloft, Us William, that brave Marquis, for whose cause The deed of Alexandria and his war Makes Conferrat and Canavese weep.” CANTO VIII Now...

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...e directs aloft, Us William, that brave Marquis, for whose cause The deed of Alexandria and his war Makes Conferrat and Canavese weep.” CANTO VIII Now... ...y shone, I mov’d me. There was storied on the rock The’ exalted glory of the Roman prince, Whose mighty worth mov’d Gregory to earn His mighty conques... ...citizen shalt be forever with me, Of that true Rome, wherein Christ dwells a Roman To profit the misguided world, keep now Thine eyes upon the car; an... .... 76. Sordello.]The history of Sordello’s life is wrapt in the obscurity of romance. That he distinguished himself by his skill in Provencal poetry i... ...r stridore fores: tune conditus imo Eruitur tempo multis intactus ab annnis Romani census populi, &c. Lucan. Ph. 1. iii. 157. CANTO X v. 6. That Wou... ...la lancia Con la qual giostro Guida. If I remember right, in one of the old romances, Judas is represented tilting with our Saviour. v. 78. The oth...

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...walls of iron brown: In this adventure and occasion, glad So to revive the Romans’ old renown, Or prove at least to all of wiser thought, Their hearts... ... ignoble ways: They pass the town built by the Grecian bold, Of him called Alexandria till our days, And Pharaoh’s tower and isle removed of yore Far ... ...heir vessels good, Such flames the gold therein enchased threw, Caesar his Romans hence, the Asian kings Thence Antony and Indian princes brings. 355... ...ips erst anchor cast. XV The foremost band the people were that dwelled In Alexandria’s rich and fertile plain, Along the western shore, whence Nile e... ...d was the worthy race And pedigree of all of the house of Est: Come from a Roman spring o’er all the place Flowed pure streams of crystals east and we... ...e. Behind him Hugo stood with warfare long, That broke the horn of all the Romans’ pride, Who of all Italy the marquis hight, And Tuscan whole possess... ...his son by Cunigond his bride, And in Bavaria’s field transplanted new The Roman graft flourished, increased and grew. LXXX A branch of Est there in t...

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... barracks. A certain terror held him. In a week the great structure of his romantic world, so full of many colors and harmonies, that had sur- vived s... ...that shone like lacquer. “This is wonderful,” said Andrews involuntarily. “Romantic I call it. Makes you think of Dickens, doesn’t it, and Locksley Ha... ...tween the palms of both hands. He remembered a speech out of some very bad romantic play he had heard when he was very small. “About your head I fling... ...John Andrews and Bob Henslowe, damn it? … Why the ghosts of poor old dead Romans should be dragged in every time a man eats an oyster, I don’t see. W... ...f into convulsions of laughter. “She has a lion cub named Bubu and Nicolas Romanoff lives in the Ritz, and the Revolution is scheduled for day after t... ...at were sewn on the mummy cases in the Fayum. But those patrician women of Alexandria had not had chest- 271 John Dos Passos nut hair with a glimpse ... ..., suddenly stilled into the encaustic paint- ing on the mummy case of some Alexandrian girl. “T ell me,” she said, “when did you begin to write musi...

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...s his pale smile, withdrawn yet assuring. He learned his art from a young Alexandrian, a man he met while studying in Athens, who spoke many desert ... ...rowd, forced me to retreat. As I closed the door of the house I ob- served Roman soldiers. I asked to be left alone. I ate supper alone. Early in the ... .... “Work fast,” someone was constantly urging. Peter got defiant: “Let the Romans come,” he shouted. “We have a right to bury our dead.” Luke had to ... ...dst of my writing I see John’s face; I hear him. We talk about him. “The Romans are going to take you, one of these days! What can I do to look aft... ...ed; lamps and rugs, hangings VOICES FROM THE PAST 186 and x-shaped Roman chairs, cushions and inlaid boxes brightened the room. Propped on a ... ...in Jerusalem... Your faith is for the little towns and villages where the Romans have less influence or none at all... “When James was here a month ... ... “We must declare a truce LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 549 to bury our dead.” Alexandria, Fairfax, Sharpsburg, Harper’s Ferry, Spotsylvania. That peculi...

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...walls of iron brown: In this adventure and occasion, glad So to revive the Romans’ old renown, Or prove at least to all of wiser thought, Their hearts... ... ignoble ways: They pass the town built by the Grecian bold, Of him called Alexandria till our days, And Pharaoh’s tower and isle removed of yore Far ... ...heir vessels good, Such flames the gold therein enchased threw, Caesar his Romans hence, the Asian kings Thence Antony and Indian princes brings. 355... ...ips erst anchor cast. XV The foremost band the people were that dwelled In Alexandria’s rich and fertile plain, Along the western shore, whence Nile e... ...d was the worthy race And pedigree of all of the house of Est: Come from a Roman spring o’er all the place Flowed pure streams of crystals east and we... ...e. Behind him Hugo stood with warfare long, That broke the horn of all the Romans’ pride, Who of all Italy the marquis hight, And Tuscan whole possess... ...his son by Cunigond his bride, And in Bavaria’s field transplanted new The Roman graft flourished, increased and grew. LXXX A branch of Est there in t...

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...l these writers; but how devoid of passion or exultation the spirit of the Roman Emperor is! Compare his fine sentence: “If gods care not for me or my... ...just as the first Christians were accused of indulgence in or- gies by the Romans. It is probable that there never has been a century in which the del... ...eauty. They read his character, not in the disordered world of man, but in romantic and har- monious nature. Of human sin they know perhaps little in ... ...hout being as yet spiritual, they have a certain complacency and per- haps romantic sense of excitement in their simple worship.” In the Romish Church... ...natural ani- mal man without a sense of sin; sometimes it means a Greek or Roman with his own peculiar religious con- sciousness. In neither of these ... ...onal. In the Hebrew prophets, on the contrary, in Mohammed, in some of the Alexandrians, in many minor Catholic saints, in Fox, in Joseph Smith, somet... ...oing.[323] Here, to take another Jewish case, is the way in which Philo of Alexandria describes his inspiration:— “Sometimes, when I have come to my w...

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...him. His self-will, his ambition, his Pariah position, as belonging to the Roman Catholic faith, the feebleness of his constitution, the uncertainty o... ...and harps divine; Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! D... ...Oh! when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquish’d realms s... ...atery main; Resign to Jove his empire of the skies, And people heaven with Roman deities. The time will come when a diviner flame Shall warm my breast... ...place to tire the rambling wits of France In long descriptions, and exceed romance: Enough to shame the gentlest bard that sings Of painted meadows, a... ...l History of England [J. Oldmixon]. Octavo, printed 1728. Gulliveriana and Alexandriana; with an ample Preface and Critique on Swift and Pope’s Miscel... ...umes of Billingsgate against Dr Swift and Mr Pope, called Gulliveriana and Alexandriana, printed in octavo, 1728.—P . 331 ‘Aaron Hill:’ see life. 332... ...s royal mummy, being stolen by a wild Arab, was purchased by the consul of Alexandria, and transmitted to the Museum of Mummius; for proof of which he...

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...our hours, and then put to sea again. At Smyrna they stopped again; and at Alexandria; but at last they ar rived safely at Jaffa, where all the pilgr... ... with an air of superiority to both the Chris tians. ‘Your belief in your Roman religion is vain, ’ said he. ‘It was superseded twelve hundred years ...

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...ost retired manner, of whom my landlady gave me this account: that she was a Roman Catholic, had been sent abroad when young, and lodg’d in a nunnery ... ... with two regiments of regular English troops for that purpose. He landed at Alexandria, in Virginia, and thence march’d to Frederictown, in Maryland,...