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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography | 32 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Epictetus, Works (ed. George Long) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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It is no great thing to possess strength,
whatever kind it is, but to use it as one should. For of what advantage to Milo of Croton was
his enormous strength of body?How Milo's strength brought about his death is told in Strabo 6.1.12.
The death of Polydamas, the
Thessalian, when he was crushed by the rocks,Polydamas, a
famous athlete, was in a cave when the roof began to crack. His companions fled to safety, but
Polydamas thought he could support the roof (cp. Paus. 6.5.4
ff.). made clear to all men how precarious it is to have great strength but
little sense.Const. Exc. 4, pp. 285-286.
A certain inhabitant of Croton, Cylon by name, the foremost citizen in wealth and
repute, was eager to become a Pythagorean. But since he was a harsh man and violent in his
ways, and both seditious and tyrannical as well, he was rejected by them. Consequently, being
irritated at the order of the Pythagoreans, he formed a large party and never ceased working
against them in every way possible both by word and by deed. Lysis, the Pythagorean, came to Thebes in Boeotia
and became the teacher of EpaminondasThe distinguished
Theban general and statesman, c. 420-362
B.C.; and he developed him, with respect to virtue, into a perfect man and became his
father by adoption because of the affection he had for him. And Epaminondas, because of the
incitements toward perseverance and simplicity and every other virtue which he received from
the Pythagorean philosophy, became the foremost man, not only of Thebes, but of all who lived in his time.