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Often appears with: exile, wandering, and banishment · crime and punishment · will, choice, and freedom · the fear of death · self-condemnation · religious pollution · religious persecution and toleration · reconciliation after legal dispute · recognition of benefactors · prayer and worship · poverty and wealth · poverty and virtue
Usually: narrative (4) · injustice endured (3) · detachment (3) · confronting death (2) · the fall of the great (2) · resignation (2) · argument (1) · speech or oration (1) · grief and loss (1) · reconciliation (1)
“Make no tragedy show of the thing, but speak of it as it is.” Epictetus (translated by George Long), A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with th · precept
The man cannot take the purse from the woman despite Sancho’s order, so Sancho concludes she lied, returns the money to the man, banishes her with punishment of lashes, and then hears another cap-and-cloth fraud case.
is right,” said the man; “I own myself beaten and powerless; I confess I haven’t the strength to take it from her;” and he let go his hold of her. Upon this the governor said to the woman, “Let me see that purse, my worthy and sturdy friend.” She handed it to him at once, and the governor returned it to the man, and said to the unforced mistress of force, “Sister, if you had shown as much, or only half as much, spir…
At Messene, democracy is established, the men of rank are banished, and allotment-holders gain influence; Polybius introduces Gorgus of Messene, a wealthy former athlete turned statesman and politician.
[Sidenote: Plato, *Rep.* 565 D.] I wish now to remind my readers of what, in my fifth Book, I put forward merely as a promise and unsupported statement, but which has now been confirmed by facts; in order that I may not leave any proposition of mine unproved or open to question. In the course of my history of the Aetolian war, where I had to relate the violent proceedings of Philip in destroying the colonnades and o…
After Titus’s speech, Sophronia’s kin accept Titus and send Sophronia to him; in the aftermath Gisippus is banished in Athens, later reaches Rome in poverty, and waits outside Titus’s house seeking recognition.
find means to recover her who is lawfully mine, and pursuing you with unremitting enmity, will apprise you by experience of the full measure and effect of a Roman's wrath." Having so said, Titus started to his feet, his countenance distorted by anger, and took Gisippus by the hand, and with manifest contempt for all the rest, shaking his head at them and threatening them, led him out of the temple. They that remaine…
Oedipus, blind and condemned by his own decree, refuses to debate his punishment, curses his forced exile and incestuous fate, and begs Creon either to hide, kill, or banish him while claiming responsibility for the guilt.
CHORUS. I cannot say that thou hast counseled well, For thou wert better dead than living blind. OEDIPUS. What’s done was well done. Thou canst never shake My firm belief. A truce to argument. For, had I sight, I know not with what eyes I could have met my father in the shades, Or my poor mother, since against the twain I sinned, a sin no gallows could atone. Aye, but, ye say, the sight of children joys A parent’s e…
He lists examples—poverty, power, banishment, and death—to show that external outcomes are manageable by maintaining right judgments, since nothing external can truly deprive a person of freedom.
value on the materials (things), but values the pleasure that he has with them and the occupation, what tyrant is then formidable to him, or what guards or what swords? What hinders a man, who has clearly separated (comprehended) these things, from living with a light heart and bearing easily the reins, quietly expecting everything which can happen, and enduring that which has already happened? Would you have me to …
Hippolytus kneels and is dragged away from Theseus’s presence, then halts to pray at the statue of Artemis; he departs exiled from Athens and Troezen as the chorus laments fate and lost happiness.
THESEUS Is not the man a juggler and a mage, Cool wits and one right oath--what more?--to assuage Sin and the wrath of injured fatherhood! HIPPOLYTUS Am I so cool? Nay, Father, 'tis thy mood That makes me marvel! By my faith, wert thou The son, and I the sire; and deemed I now In very truth thou hadst my wife assailed, I had not exiled thee, nor stood and railed, But lifted once mine arm, and struck thee…