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Greece (Greece) (search for this): book 1, section 327a
, censures Plato for thus adoring an Artemis made with hands, and the fathers and medieval writers frequently cite the passage for Plato's regrettable concessions to polytheism—“persuasio civilis” as Minucius Felix styles it. Cf. Eusebius Praep. Evang. xiii. 13. 66. to the Goddess,Presumably Bendis (354 A), though, as the scholiast observes, Athena is H( QEO/S for an Athenian. For foreign cults at the Peiraeus see Holm, History of Greece, iii. p. 189. and also because I wished to see how they would conduct the festival since this was its inauguration.See Introduction. I thought the procession of the citizens very fine, but it was no better than the show, made by the marching of the Thracian contin
Plato (Colombia) (search for this): book 1, section 327a
Socrates ISocrates narrates in the first person, as in the Charmides and Lysis; see Introduction p. vii, Hirzel, Der Dialog, i. p. 84. Demetrius, On Style, 205, cites this sentence as an example of “trimeter members.” Editors give references for the anecdote that it was found in Plato's tablets with many variations. For Plato's description of such painstaking Cf. Phaedrus 278 D. Cicero De sen.. 5. 13 “scribens est mortuus.” went down yesterday to the PeiraeusCf. 439 E; about a five-mile walk. with Glaucon, the son of Ariston, to pay my devotionsPlato and Xenophon represent Socrates as worshipping the gods,NO/MW| PO/LEWS. Athanasius,
Contra (Virginia, United States) (search for this): book 1, section 327a
For Plato's description of such painstaking Cf. Phaedrus 278 D. Cicero De sen.. 5. 13 “scribens est mortuus.” went down yesterday to the PeiraeusCf. 439 E; about a five-mile walk. with Glaucon, the son of Ariston, to pay my devotionsPlato and Xenophon represent Socrates as worshipping the gods,NO/MW| PO/LEWS. Athanasius, Contra gentes, 9, censures Plato for thus adoring an Artemis made with hands, and the fathers and medieval writers frequently cite the passage for Plato's regrettable concessions to polytheism—“persuasio civilis” as Minucius Felix styles it. Cf. Eusebius Praep. Evang. xiii. 13. 66. to the Goddess,Presumably Bendis
Meno (New York, United States) (search for this): book 1, section 327b
had said our prayers and seen the spectacle we were starting for town when Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, caught sight of us from a distance as we were hastening homeward“Headed homeward” is more exact and perhaps better. and ordered his boyA Greek gentleman would always be so attended. Cf. Charmides 155 A, Meno 82 B, Protagoras 310 C, Demosthenes xlvii. 36. run and bid us to waitThe “bounder” in Theophrastus, Char. xi. (xvii.), if he sees persons in a hurry will ask them to wait. for him, and the boy caught holdCharmides 153 B, Parmenides 126 A, 449 B. of my himation from behind and said, “Polemarchus wants you to
Horace (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): book 1, section 327c
he procession. Whereupon Polemarchus said, “Socrates, you appear to have turned your faces townward and to be going to leave us.” “Not a bad guess,” said I. “But you see how many we are?” he said. “Surely.” “You must either then prove yourselves the better menCf. the playful threat in Philebus 16 A, Phaedrus 236 C, Horace, Satire i. 4. 142. or stay here.” “Why, is there not left,” said I, “the alternative of our persuadingFor the characteristic Socratic contrast between force and persuasion cf. 411 D, and the anecdote in Diogenes Laertius vii. 24. you that you ought to let us go?” “But could you persuade us,”
Sterrett (Alabama, United States) (search for this): book 1, section 328a
“that you haven't heard that there is to be a torchlight raceSee Sterrett in AJP xxii. p. 393. “The torch was passed down the lines which competed as wholes. For the metaphorical transmission of the torch of life cf. Plato, Laws, 776 B, Lucretius ii. 79. this evening on horseback in honor of the Goddess?” “On horseback?” said I. “That is a new idea. Will they carry torches and pass them along to one another as they race with the horses, or how do you mean?” “That's the way of it,” said Polemarchus, “and, besides, there is to be a night festival which will be worth seeing. For after dinner we will get upRise from the table. This is forgotten. and go out and see the si
Iliad (Montana, United States) (search for this): book 1, section 328c
t and sat down beside him, for there were seats there disposed in a circle.For the seats compare Protagoras 317 D-E, Cicero Laelius 1. 2 “in hemicyclio sedentem.” As soon as he saw me Cephalus greeted me and said, “You are not a very frequentThe language recalls the Homeric formula,PA/ROS GE ME\N OU)/TI QAMI/ZEIS, Iliad xviii. 386, Odyssey v. 88, Jebb on O.C. 672. Cephalus' friendly urgency to Socrates is in the tone of Laches 181 C. visitor, Socrates. You don't often come down to the Peiraeus to see us. That is not right. For if I were still able to make the journey up to town easily there would be no need of your resorting hi
1165 AD (search for this): book 1, section 329a
e person to his like, peculiarly to God, himself.” the old saw of like to like. At these reunions most of us make lament, longing for the lost joys of youth and recalling to mind the pleasures of wine, women, and feasts, and other things thereto appertaining, and they repine in the belief that the greatest things have been taken from them and that then they lived well and now it is no life at all.The sentiment of the sensualist from Mimnermus to Byron; cf. also Simonides fr. 71, Sophocles Antigone 1165, Antiphanes, in Stobaeus 63. 12. For the application to old age Cf. Anth. Pal. ix. 127, Horace Epistles ii. 2. 55, and the YO/GOS GH/RWS in Stobaeus, 116. And some of them
Milton (Missouri, United States) (search for this): book 1, section 329a
enders, “similes cum similibus veteri proverbio facile congregantur.” The proverb is H(=LIC H(/LIKA TE/RPEIPhaedrus 240 C, or, as in Lysis 214 A, Protagoras 337 D, Symposium 195 B, the reference may be to Homer's W(S AI)EI\ TO\N O(MOI=ON A)/GEI QEO\S W(S TO\N O(MOI=ON, Odyssey xvii. 218. Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, x., “The ancient proverb in Homer . . . entitles this work of leading each like person to his like, peculiarly to God, himself.” the old saw of like to like. At these reunions most of us make lament, longing for the lost joys of youth and recalling to mind the pleasures of wine, women, and feasts, and other things
Byron (Maine, United States) (search for this): book 1, section 329a
person to his like, peculiarly to God, himself.” the old saw of like to like. At these reunions most of us make lament, longing for the lost joys of youth and recalling to mind the pleasures of wine, women, and feasts, and other things thereto appertaining, and they repine in the belief that the greatest things have been taken from them and that then they lived well and now it is no life at all.The sentiment of the sensualist from Mimnermus to Byron; cf. also Simonides fr. 71, Sophocles Antigone 1165, Antiphanes, in Stobaeus 63. 12. For the application to old age Cf. Anth. Pal. ix. 127, Horace Epistles ii. 2. 55, and the YO/GOS GH/RWS in Stobaeus, 116. And some of them
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