The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 145A. Constable, 1877 |
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Page 345
... Lysias . ' ( I. 94. ) Cæcilius was a contemporary and friend of the Halicarnassian Dionysios , who , however , takes no notice of the canon framed by his colleague in the cause of the Atticist revival . Whether Cæcilius devised the ...
... Lysias . ' ( I. 94. ) Cæcilius was a contemporary and friend of the Halicarnassian Dionysios , who , however , takes no notice of the canon framed by his colleague in the cause of the Atticist revival . Whether Cæcilius devised the ...
Page 347
... Lysias escaped with his life from the clutches of the Thirty and their myrmidons , who put his brother to death without warning , without trial , and even without an accusation . Still Lysias could speak of their crime with tempered ...
... Lysias escaped with his life from the clutches of the Thirty and their myrmidons , who put his brother to death without warning , without trial , and even without an accusation . Still Lysias could speak of their crime with tempered ...
Page 348
... Lysias did this , and thus deserves to be regarded as a discoverer . As Mr. Jebb justly remarks , Lysias may , in a general sense , be regarded as the perfecter of a style already practised by many others ; ' but it is closer to the ...
... Lysias did this , and thus deserves to be regarded as a discoverer . As Mr. Jebb justly remarks , Lysias may , in a general sense , be regarded as the perfecter of a style already practised by many others ; ' but it is closer to the ...
Page 351
... Lysias discovered with such partial vision were already , and had long been , incurable ; but we stand amazed at the fancy that the most hopeless discordance of political ideas , and the most radical divergence of principle , might be ...
... Lysias discovered with such partial vision were already , and had long been , incurable ; but we stand amazed at the fancy that the most hopeless discordance of political ideas , and the most radical divergence of principle , might be ...
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... Lysias had exhorted his hearers to plunder or dismantle at Olympia . If Dionysios turned a deaf ear to his strain , he would invoke the aid of the Mace- donian king , whose armies hung like a thunder - cloud in the north , big with ...
... Lysias had exhorted his hearers to plunder or dismantle at Olympia . If Dionysios turned a deaf ear to his strain , he would invoke the aid of the Mace- donian king , whose armies hung like a thunder - cloud in the north , big with ...
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