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Plato, Republic, Book 8, section 552a (search)
man to sell all his possessions,So in the Laws the householder may not sell his lot, Laws 741 B-C, 744 D-E. Cf. 755 A, 857 A, Aristot.Pol. 1270 a 19, Newman i. p. 376. which another is permitted to acquire, and after selling them to go on living in the city, but as no part of it,Cf Aristot.Pol. 1326 a 20, Newman i. pp. 98 and 109. Cf Leslie Stephen, Util. ii. 111 “A vast populace has grown up outside of the old order.” neither a money-maker, nor a craftsman, nor a knight, nor a foot-soldier, but classified only as a pauperCf. Aristot.Pol. 1266 b 13. and a dependent.”
Plato, Republic, Book 8, section 555e (search)
and eager for revolution.Cf. Aristot.Pol. 1305 b 40-41, 1266 b 14.” “’Tis so.” “But these money-makers with down-bent heads,Cf. Persius, Sat. ii. 61 “o curvae in terras animae, et caelestium inanes,” Cf. 586 AKEKUFO/TES. Cf. also on 553 D for the general thought. pretending not even to seeCf. Euthyph. 5 C, Polit. 287 A, Aristoph.Peace 1051, Plut. 837, Eurip.Hippol. 119, I. T. 956, Medea 67, Xen.Hell. iv. 5. 6. them, but inserting the sting of their moneyOr, as Ast, Stallbaum and others take it, “the poison of their money.”TITRW/SKONTES suggests the poisonous sting, especially as Plato has been speaking of hives and dr
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Geor'gius SYRUS (search)
s sent by the emperor Justinian II., with a few ships and 300 soldiers, against the town of Chersonae, in the Chersonnesus Taurica, the inhabitants of which were in a state of insurrection. George, with his party, was admitted into the town, and there he was killed by the townsmen, with Joannes, one of his chief officers, and the rest of his troops taken prisoners, A. D. 711. (Theophan. Chronog. vol. i. p. 580, ed. Bonn.) Beside personages belonging to the Byzantine empire, there were many Georges in the states which were formed out of it during its decay, or at its fall. The name occurs in the notices of the Servian, or Bulgarian, or Albanian provinces and chieftains. The most eminent was George Castriota, better known by the epithet Scanderbeg, who lived about the time of the filal capture of Constantinople (A. D. 1453). Among the Comneni of Trebizond [COMNENUS] there was one emperor George (A. D. 1266 to 1280), and there were several Georges members of the imperial family. [J.C.M]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Geo'rgius of Cyprus (search)
of Andronicus, who was opposed to the union, it is probable that George altered his views; for on the death of the patriarch Joseph, Andronicus determined that George, though as yet a layman, should be appointed to the office. The Greek church was at this time torn by dissension. Beside the dispute about the procession of the Holy Spirit, there had been an extensive schism occasioned by the deposition of Arsenius, patriarch of Constantinople [ARSENIUS, No. 1] early in the reign of Michael (A. D. 1266). The emperor was anxious to heal these dissensions, and possibly thought a layman more likely to assist him in so doing than a professed theologian; and George was recommended to the office by his literary reputation. The emperor, by tampering with some of the bishops, obtained his purpose; and George, after being rapidly hurried through the successive stages of monk, reader, deacon, and priest, was consecrated patriarch (April, A. D. 1283), and took the name of Gregory. The Arsenians, ho
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
in the service of Kublai Khan, the conqueror of China, from 1274 to 1291, and was concerned in the introduction of the compass from China to Europe direct. It had previously arrived by the good old channel, India and Arabia; but Marco Polo did not know that, and his services can hardly be exaggerated. The Arabs sailed by the compass during the Khalifate of Cordova, which lasted till A. D. 1237, when it was subdued by the Moors. An authority states that it was known in Norway previous to 1266. Dr. Gilbert, physician to Queen Elizabeth, states that P. Venutus brought a compass direct from China in 1260. See Klaproth's work on this subject, Paris, 1834; Sir Snow Harris's Rudimentary magnetism ; the researches of Biot, Stanislaus Julien, etc. About 1320, Flavio Gioja, a pilot of Positano, not far from Amalfi in the Kingdom of Naples, was instrumental in the improvement of the compass, and for a time passed as the inventor thereof. Such a claim is fully disposed of by the fa
The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
d were common enough in many European cities. They are among the many crying evils that have descended to the present generation from mediæval times, and which the present generation is extirpating as fast as it can. That we speak nothing more or less than the truth, let the following extract from McCulloch's Commercial Dictionary--a work justly held in high esteem by statesmen as well as merchants — testify. It is to be found under the article "Bread:" "Assize of Bread.--From the year 1266, in the reign of Henry III., down to our own days, it has been customary to regulate the price at which bread should be sold according to the price of wheat or flour at the time. An interference of this sort was supposed to be necessary to prevent that monopoly on the part of the bakers which it was feared might otherwise take place.--But it is needless, perhaps, to say that this apprehension was of the most futile description. The trade of a baker is one that may be easily learned, and it