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T. Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (ed. William Ellery Leonard) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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for anybody. Three of them are that of the sun, for one, that of the moon for another, and a third that of the stars which we mentioned a little while ago; and there are five others besides.Cf. Plato, Tim. 38 ff., where God is said to have made, besides the fixed stars, the sun, the moon, and the five planets—Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars—for the generation of time. Now in regard to all these and those beings who either have their own motion in these, or are borne in vehicles so as to make their progress thus, let none of us all ever idly suppose that some of them are gods, while others are not, or that some are genuine, while others are of a certain kind which it is not permissible to any of us even to express; but let us all declare and say that they are all cogn
Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 1 (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts), chapter 31 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 2, line 401 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 2, line 466 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 11, line 749 (search)
An auncient father seeing them aabout the brode sea fly,
Did prayse theyr love for lasting to the end so stedfastly.
His neyghbour or the selfsame man made answer (such is chaunce):
Even this fowle also whom thou seest uppon the surges glaunce
With spindle shanks, (he poynted to the wydegoawld Cormorant)
Before that he became a bird, of royall race might vaunt.
And if thou covet lineally his pedegree to seeke,
His Auncetors were Ilus, and Assaracus, and eeke
Fayre Ganymed who Jupiter did ravish as his joy,
Laomedon and Priamus the last that reygnd in Troy.
Stout Hectors brother was this man. And had he not in pryme
Of lusty youth beene tane away, his deedes perchaunce in tyme
Had purchaast him as great a name as Hector, though that hee
Of Dymants daughter Hecuba had fortune borne to bee.
For Aesacus reported is begotten to have beene
By scape, in shady Ida on a mayden fayre and sheene
Whose name was Alyxothoe, a poore mans daughter that
With spade and mattocke for himselfe and h
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 15, line 745 (search)
T. Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 5, scene 5 (search)
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (ed. William Ellery Leonard), BOOK VI, line 379 (search)