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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 554 | 0 | Browse | Search |
World English Bible (ed. Rainbow Missions, Inc., Rainbow Missions, Inc.; revision of the American Standard Version of 1901) | 226 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 154 | 0 | Browse | Search |
World English Bible (ed. Rainbow Missions, Inc., Rainbow Missions, Inc.; revision of the American Standard Version of 1901) | 150 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 138 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 92 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 54 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 | 50 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 46 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.PhaedrusSocrates, you easily make up stories of Egypt or any country you please.SocratesThey used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak
invented numbers and arithmetic and geometry and astronomy, also draughts and dice, and, most important of all, letters. Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon. To him came Theuth to show his inventions, saying that they ought to be imparted to the other Egyptians. But Thamus asked what use there was in each, and as Theuth enumerated their uses, expressed praise or blame, according as he approved
SocratesI can tell something I have heard of the ancients; but whether it is true, they only know. But if we ourselves should find it out, should we care any longer for human opinions?PhaedrusA ridiculous question! But tell me what you say you have heard.SocratesI heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth. He it was who