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Aelius Aristides 22, Smyrna Oration 2

ToposText · Aelius Aristides · 5 sections

  1. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg022:269

    § 269 I should have particularly wished, Excellency,...

  2. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg022:270

    § 270 by being with you and by duly enjoying the city now restored for us....

  3. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg022:271

    § 271 there located in the midst of the city, and the beauty of the temples and their precincts,...

  4. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg022:272

    § 272 for let not our whole discussion be about buildings? Neither were they terrified at the misfortune nor did they seek nor wait for any fairer consolation than that which the Emperors provided by word and by deed,...

  5. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg022:273

    § 273 Such then was fortune’s palinode about our city....

Via ToposText (topostext.org), a project of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation created by Brady Kiesling. Translated by Charles Allison Behr. Composed ca. 177 CE. Licence: under copyright, English snippets and Greek text. Source.