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The Greeks, moreover, will admit that even amongst those who are considered to be most largely endowed with wisdom, good fortune has had much to do, as in the choice of teachers of one kind rather than another, and in meeting with a better class of instructors ( there being teachers who taught the most opposite doctrines ), and in being brought up in better circumstances ; for the bringing up of many has been amid surroundings of such a kind, that they were prevented from ever receiving any idea of better things, but constantly passed their life, from their earliest youth, either as the favourites of licentious men or of tyrants, or in some other wretched condition which forbade the soul to look upwards.
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The Egyptians have to be worse than all the nations ; for they were not content with the worships of the Chaldeans and Greeks, but introduced, of moreover, as gods even brute beasts of the dry land and of the waters, and plants and herbs:
Greeks and will
Hector is set on burning the ships, the only way he feels the Greeks will truly be defeated.
He promises that no Greek will engage in combat for 11 days, but on the 12th day of peace, the mighty war between the Greeks and the Trojans would resume.
* The Greek congress decides to send a force of 10, 000 Greeks, including hoplites and cavalry, to the Vale of Tempe, through which they believe the Persian army will pass.
Anchises refuses to leave the house, prompting Aeneas to decide that he will leave to continue the fight against the Greeks so that he may die in battle.
Later on, he tries again to persuade the Trojans to stay inside the city in order to raise troop morale, but it is Aeneas that opposes his opinion this time, on the grounds that the Greeks will not be disheartened by a long stay inside the walls.
Any trader worth his or her salt will know the Greeks and make a choice of which Greeks to hedge to limit exposure.
Financial institutions will typically set limits for the Greeks that their trader cannot exceed.
" The lance which pierced Our Lord's side " was among the relics at Constantinople shown in the 1430s to Pedro Tafur, who added " God grant that in the overthrow of the Greeks they have not fallen into the hands of the enemies of the Faith, for they will have been ill-treated and handled with little reverence.
: " After having conquered Saketa, the country of the Panchala and the Mathuras, the Yavanas ( Greeks ), wicked and valiant, will reach Kusumadhvaja.
Now the Tapyri, or Tabari, inhabited a district in Hyrcania, and if this name be derived from tabr, an axe, it will signify hatchet-men, or wood-cutters, a name very appropriate to the inhabitants of a country covered with forests like Hyrcania, and, though restricted by the Greeks to the western inhabitants of that province, is equally applicable to those of the eastern part.
You will do this, if you abandon the policy of weakening the Greeks, and thus rendering them an easy prey to the invader ; and consult on the contrary for their good as you would for your own person, and have a care for all parts of Greece alike, as part and parcel of your own domains.
If you act in this spirit, the Greeks will be your warm friends and faithful coadjutors in all your undertakings ; while foreigners will be less ready to form designs against you, seeing with dismay the firm loyalty of the Greeks.
But I intreat of you to postpone your controversies and wars with the Greeks to a time of greater tranquillity ; and make it your supreme aim to retain the power of making peace or war with them at your own will.
His future is foretold by his grandfather, and great stress is placed upon the loyal duty of the Roman soldier, who will as a reward after death " inhabit ... that circle that shines forth among the stars which you have learned from the Greeks to call the Milky Way ".
In Plato's work, Socrates tells his friend, Crito, that he expects to be executed the day after next ( the Greeks counted inclusively, so the " third day " counts today as the first, tomorrow as the second, and the day after as the third ), interpreting the dream to mean that he will arrive at his new home one day later than Crito expects.
It is also worth noting that the same city can be built by multiple nations: if the Romans, Greeks, and Turks are found in the same game, it is possible that the cities of Byzantium, Constantinople, and Istanbul will co-exist during the same game, despite the fact that these are different historical names for the same city.
The Greeks were disappointed at these restricted frontiers, but were in no position to resist the will of Britain, France and Russia, who had contributed mightily to Greek independence.
Socrates rebuffs the report, saying he has had a dream-a vision of a woman in a white cloak telling him that on the third day hence he will go to Phthia, which is a reference to Achilles ' threat in the Iliad that he — the mightiest of Greek warriors — might just leave for his home in " fertile " Phthia and be there in " just three days " if the Greeks fail to show him due respect.
:" The Yavanas ( Greeks ) will command, the Kings will disappear.
Greeks and admit
Friedlander wrote that the glorification of Judaism in the letter was no more than self-defense, though “ the book does not mention the antagonists of Judaism by name, nor does it admit that its intention is to refute direct attacks .” Stein sees in the letter “ a special kind of defense, which practices diplomatic tactics ,” and Tramontano also speaks of “ an apologetic and propagandist tendency .” Vincent characterizes it as “ a small unapologetic novel written for the Egyptians ” ( i. e. the Greeks in Egypt ).
Another country to admit Greeks in large numbers was Sweden, where today over 15, 000 Greek-Swedish descendants live ( see Greeks in Sweden ).
Greeks and even
His value as a war god is even placed in doubt: during the Trojan War, Ares was on the losing side, while Athena, often depicted in Greek art as holding Nike ( Victory ) in her hand, favored the triumphant Greeks.
He regularly admitted women and slaves into his school and was one of the first Greeks to break from the god-fearing and god-worshipping tradition common at the time, even while affirming that religious activities are useful as a way to contemplate the gods and to use them as an example of the pleasant life.
* Fasolada, a bean soup defined in many cookery books as the traditional Greek dish, sometimes even called " the " national food of the Greeks ".
However, the data of the General Secretariat For Greeks Abroad give an even lower number ( 50 people ).
But even when they copied the Greeks, they did not translate slavishly.
In the Aeneid, Virgil gives Laocoön the famous line Equo ne credite, Teucri / Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, or " Do not trust the Horse, Trojans / Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts.
Some think the myth even indicates that the ancient Greeks knew about the liver ’ s remarkable capacity for self-repair.
There is, however, no belief in a general resurrection in ancient Greek religion, as the Greeks held that not even the gods were able to recreate flesh that had been lost to decay, fire or consumption.
The term " Persian bird " for the cock would appear to been given by the Greeks after Persian contact " because of his great importance and his religious use among the Persians ", but even long before that time, in Iran, during the Kianian Period, from about 2000 B. C.
Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity ; namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khora ( i. e. " space "), or in the Physics of Aristotle ( Book IV, Delta ) in the definition of topos ( i. e. place ), or even in the later " geometrical conception of place " as " space qua extension " in the Discourse on Place ( Qawl fi al-Makan ) of the 11th century Arab polymath Alhazen.
Thus even the leading Greeks hesitated to land.
Noteworthy is the fact that, at an early date, the ancient Greeks employed the term " Thrace " to refer to all of the territory which lay north of Thessaly inhabited by the Thracians, a region which " had no definite boundaries " and to which other regions ( like Macedonia and even Scythia ) were added.
Before the establishment of the League of Corinth, even though the Macedonians apparently spoke a dialect of the Greek language and claimed proudly that they were Greeks, they were not considered to fully share the classical Greek culture by many of the inhabitants of the southern city states, because they did not share the polis based style of government.
The causes leading the Selinuntines to abandon the cause of the other Greeks, and take part with the Carthaginians during the great expedition of Hamilcar ( 480 BCE ) are unknown ; they had even promised to send a contingent to the Carthaginian army, which, however did not arrive till after its defeat
By these wars, the dominant position of the Greeks was undermined even more quickly than would otherwise have been the case.
Greeks and Romans ate it fresh when in season and dried the vegetable for use in winter ; Romans would even freeze it high in the Alps, for the Feast of Epicurius.
This method, also employed by the Romans, the Greeks and even indigenous people in the Philippines around 1600-1800, is still used today.
The Wax Encaustic Technique was described by the Romans, even though created by the Greeks.
However, it is clear that by the late pharaonic period, demotic scribes regularly employed a more phonetic orthography, a testament to the increasing cultural contact between Egyptians and Greeks even before Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt.
Both the Atharva Veda and the ancient Greeks associated lips anointed with honey with the gift of eloquence and even of prescience.
While questioning Sinon, the Trojan priest Laocoön guesses the plot and warns the Trojans, in Virgil's famous line " Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes " ( I fear Greeks even those bearing gifts ), which became known as ' beware of Greeks bearing gifts ," Danaos being the ones who built the Trojan Horse.
Whatever it is, I ’ m afraid of Greeks even those bearing gifts .’
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bringing gifts.
* Concerned at Rome's expansion, Antigonus III pursues a policy of befriending the Illyrians, even though the Greeks in the region support Rome in quelling the Illyrian pirates.
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