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In another case, perhaps, there is no
advantage but "such was the fact," e.g. the case of the arms, "Their spears erect on
butt-spikes stood,"Hom.
Il. 10.152. Problem: "Surely a bad stance: they might so easily fall
and cause alarm." Solution: "Homer does not defend it. He merely states a fact."
It is thus that we excuse "unpleasant" fiction. for that was then the
custom, as it still is in Illyria. As to the question whether anything that has been said or
done is morally good or bad, this must be answered not merely by seeing whether what
has actually been done or said is noble or base, but by taking into consideration
also the man who did or said it, and seeing to whom he did or said it, and when and
for whom and for what reason; for example, to secure a greater good or to avoid a
greater evil. Some objections may be met by reference to the diction, for
example, by pleading "rare word," e.g. OU)RH=AS ME\N
PRW=TON, for perhaps
Demosthenes, Philippic 1, section 48 (search)
Some of us spread the rumor that Philip is negotiating with the Lacedaemonians
for the overthrow of Thebes and the
dissolution of the free states, others that he has sent an embassy to the Great
King, others that he is besieging towns in Illyria; in short, each of us circulates his own piece of
fiction.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 196 (search)
This is the equipment of their persons. I will now speak of their established customs. The wisest of these, in our judgment, is one which I have learned by inquiry is also a custom of the Eneti in Illyria. It is this: once a year in every village all the maidens as they attained marriageable age were collected and brought together into one place, with a crowd of men standing around.
Then a crier would display and offer them for sale one by one, first the fairest of all; and then, when she had fetched a great price, he put up for sale the next most attractive, selling all the maidens as lawful wives. Rich men of Assyria who desired to marry would outbid each other for the fairest; the ordinary people, who desired to marry and had no use for beauty, could take the ugly ones and money besides;
for when the crier had sold all the most attractive, he would put up the one that was least beautiful, or crippled, and offer her to whoever would take her to wife for the least amount, until she
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 49 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 8, chapter 137 (search)
This Alexander was seventh in descent from Perdiccas, who got for himself the tyranny of Macedonia in the way that I will show. Three brothers of the lineage of Temenus came as banished men from Argos to Illyria, Gauanes and Aeropus and Perdiccas; and from Illyria they crossed over into the highlands of Macedonia till they came to the town Lebaea.
There they served for wages as thetes in the king's household, one tending horses and another oxen. Perdiccas, who was the youngest, tended the lessIllyria they crossed over into the highlands of Macedonia till they came to the town Lebaea.
There they served for wages as thetes in the king's household, one tending horses and another oxen. Perdiccas, who was the youngest, tended the lesser flocks. Now the king's wife cooked their food for them, for in old times the ruling houses among men, and not the common people alone, were lacking in wealth.
Whenever she baked bread, the loaf of the thete Perdiccas grew double in size. Seeing that this kept happening, she told her husband, and it seemed to him when be heard it that this was a portent signifying some great matter. So he sent for his thetes and bade them depart from his territory.
They said it was only just that they should