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Polybius, Histories | 38 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
T. Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Letters | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Politics | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Laws | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Plato, Protagoras, section 316d (search)
such a proceeding requires great caution; since very considerable jealousies are apt to ensue, and numerous enmities and intrigues. Now I tell you that sophistry is an ancient art, and those men of ancient times who practised it, fearing the odium it involved, disguised it in a decent dress, sometimes of poetry, as in the case of Homer, Hesiod, and Simonides sometimes of mystic rites and soothsayings, as did Orpheus, Musaeus and their sects; and sometimes too, I have observed, of athletics, as with IccusA famous athlete and trainer. of Tarentum and another still living—as great a sophist as any