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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.), line 727 (search)
Chorus
A stranger distributes their inheritance, a Chalybian immigrant from Scythia, a bitter divider of wealth,savage-hearted iron that apportions land for them to dwell in, as much as they can occupy in death when they have lost their share in these wide plains.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (ed. H. Rackham), Book 3, chapter 3 (search)
The reasonIn the
mss. the words ‘The reason why . . . list of causes’ come after
‘But we do not deliberate . . . Scythia.’ why we do not deliberate about these things is
that none of them can be effected by our
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (ed. H. Rackham), Book 3, chapter 3 (search)
We deliberate about things that are in our control
and are attainable by action (which are in fact the only things that still remain
to be considered; for Nature, Necessity, and Chance, with the addition of Intelligence and
human agency generally, exhaust the generally accepted list of causes). But we do
not deliberate about all human affairs without exception either: for example, no
Lacedaemonian deliberates about the best form of governmentOr, ‘the best line of policy.’ for Scythia; but any particular set of men deliberates about
the things attainable by their own a
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (ed. H. Rackham), Book 7, chapter 7 (search)
Rhesus
I too am just the same; straight to the point I cut my way; no shuffling nature is mine. My heart was wrung with sorer anguish than yours at my absence from this land; I fumed and chafed, but Scythian people, whose borders march with mine, made war on me on the very eve of my departure for Ilium; I had reached the strand of the Euxine sea, there to transport my Thracian army. Then my spear poured out over Scythia's land great drops of bloody rain, and Thrace too shared in the mingled slaughter. This then was what chanced to keep me from coming to the land of Troy and joining your standard. But as soon as I had conquered these and taken their children as hostages and appointed the yearly tribute they should pay my house, I have come, sailing across the sea's mouth, and on foot traversing the other borders of your land—not as you in your jeers at those carousals of my countrymen hint, nor sleeping soft in gilded palaces, but amid the frozen hurricanes that vex the Thracian
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 22 (search)