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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 11 | 11 | Browse | Search |
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 10 | 10 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge, M. Grant Daniell, Commentary on Caesar's Gallic War | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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A sign of this is
that spirit is more roused against associates and friends than against
strangers, when it thinks itself slighted. Therefore ArchilochusArchilochus of Paros (one of the earliest lyric poets, fl. 600 B.C., the inventor of the iambic meter, which he
used for lampoons), fr. 61 Bergk, 676 Diehl, 67
Edmonds,Elegy and Iambus, 2. 133. for instance,
when reproaching his friends, appropriately apostrophizes his spirit:
For 'tis thy friends that make thee choke with rage.
Moreover it is from this faculty that power to command and love of
freedom are in all cases derived; for spirit is a commanding and indomitable
element. But it is a mistake to describe the Guardians as cruel towards
strangers; it is not right to be cruel towards anybody, and men of great-souled
nature are not fierce except towards wrongdoers, and their anger is still
fiercer against their companions if they think that these are wronging them, as