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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 84 0 Browse Search
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Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) 38 0 Browse Search
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) 16 0 Browse Search
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Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) 14 0 Browse Search
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) 12 0 Browse Search
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T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The Churl (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 1, scene 1 (search)
sdom: He alludes to the resemblance of the name of Phronesium to the Greek word fronhdi\s, "prudence," or "forethought." This line, however, is thought by some to be spurious, and to be a mere gloss or explanation.. For I confess that I was with her first and foremost; a thing that's very disastrous to a lover's cash. The same woman, after she had found another out, a greater spendthrift, who would give more, a Babylonian CaptainBabylonian Captain: He does not mean an officer, a native of Babylon, but probably a Greek, serving for pav in the Babylonian army. Thus Xenophon and the Ten Thousand were Greeks in the pay of the Younger Cyrus., whom the hussy said was troublesome and odious to her, forthwith banished me from the spot. He now is said to be about to arrive from abroad. For that reason has she now cooked up this device; she pretends that she has been brought to bed. That she may push me out of doors, and with the Captain alone live the life of a jovial Greek, she pretends tha