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“When again, in a time of great danger, the people were very harsh upon him, demanding a strict account how the public money had been employed, and the like, he bade them, "First, good friends, make sure you are safe.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · precept
“The Socratic method, of which the Platonic dialogues are the chief example, is unsurpassed as a discipline for correcting the errors, and clearing up the confusions incident to the *intellectus sibi permissus*, the understanding which has made up all its bundles of associations under the guidance of popular phraseology.” John Stuart Mill, Autobiography · insight
Plutarch says Cato learned Pythagorean ideas about pleasure and the soul, studied rhetoric late using Thucydides and Demosthenes, and then emphasizes that his writings preserve Greek sayings within his own apothegms.
more by Demosthenes: his writings, however, are considerably embellished with Greek sayings and stories; nay, many of these, translated word for word, are placed with his own apothegms and sentences. There was a man of the highest rank, and very influential among the Romans, called Valerius Flaccus, who was singularly skillful in discerning excellence yet in the bud, and, also, much disposed to nourish and advance i…
After Demosthenes arrives with a fleet and reinforcements to aid Nicias in the Syracusan siege, Nicias hesitates, debates attack plans with Demosthenes, and is pressured to assault Epipolae at night.
worsted, and lost many of their men, causing the greatest dejection to Nicias, who had suffered so much from having the sole command, and now again miscarried through his colleagues. But now, by this time, Demosthenes with his splendid fleet came in sight outside the harbor, a terror to the enemy. He brought along, in seventy-three galleys, five thousand men at arms; of darters, archers, and slingers, not less than…
Phocion repeatedly refuses popular pressure, offers blunt parables and warnings to the Athenians, settles disputes with the Boeotians by urging negotiation, and sparrs verbally with speakers like Demosthenes and Lycurgus.
old system, more complete in itself, and more harmonious and uniform, which prevailed in the times of Pericles, Aristides, and Solon; when statesmen showed themselves, to use Archilochus's words, -- Mars' and the Muses' friends alike designed, To arts and arms indifferently inclined, and the presiding goddess of his country was, he did not fail to see, the patroness and protectress of both civil and military wisdom…
In Plutarch’s Demosthenes-Cicero discussion, he claims true happiness depends more on mind than birthplace, and he explains his own late study of Latin and his method of composing Parallel Lives.
escaped the pens of writers, are more faithfully preserved in the memories of men, lest his work be deficient in many things, even those which it can least dispense with. But for me, I live in a little town, where I am willing to continue, lest it should grow less; and having had no leisure, while I was in Rome and other parts of Italy, to exercise myself in the Roman language, on account of public business and of t…
Plutarch begins his Demosthenes biography, describing the orator’s father and family wealth, guardians’ misdeeds, his fragile health and nicknames, and uncertainty about allegations concerning his mother’s ancestry.
to judge, whether that succeeded best in making them alike in their dispositions and manners, or this, in the coincidences of their lives. We will speak of the eldest first. Demosthenes, the father of Demosthenes, was a citizen of good rank and quality, as Theopompus informs us, surnamed the Sword-maker, because he had a large workhouse, and kept servants skillful in that art at work. But of that which Aeschines, t…
The translator’s introduction and argument explain that Demosthenes’ Olynthiacs concern Athenian aid to the Chalcidian city Olynthus against Philip of Macedon, amid delays, factional opposition, and debates over funding.
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE OLYNTHIACS AND THE PHILIPPICS OF DEMOSTHENES *Literally Translated, with Notes* BY CHARLES RANN KENNEDY THE ORATIONS OF DEMOSTHENES. * * * * * THE FIRST OLYNTHIAC. THE ARGUMENT. Olynthus was a city in Macedonia, at the head of the Toronaic gulf, and north of the peninsula of Pallene. It was colonized by a people from Chalcis i…
Mill continues reading Latin and Greek authors with his father—Demosthenes, Tacitus, Juvenal, Quintilian, and Plato—arguing that Plato’s Socratic method trains precise thinking via elenchus and distinctions.
opposite conclusion, scarcely even attempting to confute the reasonings of their antagonists; and, therefore, at the utmost, leaving the question, as far as it depends on argument, a balanced one. During this time, the Latin and Greek books which I continued to read with my father were chiefly such as were worth studying, not for the language merely, but also for the thoughts. This included much of the orators, and …
Pliny continues his letter on style, comparing his own poetic metaphors to Homer and Demosthenes, criticising a rival’s complaints, and challenging Lupercus to debate in person.
torrents roll, increas'd by numerous rills, With rage impetuous down their echoing hills, Rush to the vales, and pour'd along the plain, Roar through a thousand channels to the main." It requires, I say, the nicest balance to poise these metaphors, and determine whether they are incredible and meaningless, or majestic and sublime. Not that I think anything which I have written, or can write, admits of comparison wit…
In verse, the speaker lays out an ideal rhetorical life: disciplined, frugal study; avoiding courtly and corrupt clients; learning in youth; then mastering Socrates and finally using Demosthenes’ “weapons.”
"The man who emerges with fame, from the school of stern art, Whose mind gropes for lofty ideals, to bring them to light, Must first, under rigid frugality, study his part; Nor yearn for the courts of proud princes who frown in their might: Nor scheme with the riff-raf, a client in order to dine, Nor can he with evil companions his wit drown in wine Nor sit, as a hireling, applauding an actor's grimace. But, w…
He shifts to Stoic background, tracing Zeno’s founding of Stoicism in Athens around 300 BCE and portraying Hellenistic-era political decline using Athens and Demosthenes as cautionary examples.
idiom so varied, so flexible even down to its use of various grammatical forms, so well suited alike to colloquy, or argument, or satire, or impassioned eloquence, as Elizabethan English. So much to make the plan of the present work understood; and the reader may perhaps wish that I would now leave him to the study of it. But there is much in Epictetus the significance of which will not appear to any one who is unac…