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  1. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.389

    § 10.389 ( TE2.331 ) CONCERNING THE FLOWING OF THE ISMENUS RIVER The Ismenus...

  2. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.394

    § 10.394 ( TE2.332 ) CONCERNING: “WHAT KIND OF THING AGAIN IS IT,...

  3. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.400

    § 10.400 Cadmus was to slaughter it and sacrifice it on that very ground,...

  4. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.410

    § 10.410 Later on, by famous Zethus...

  5. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.420

    § 10.420 And began fighting and warring amongst themselves....

  6. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.430

    § 10.430 His murdering chompers, which inflamed the people,...

  7. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.440

    § 10.440 So I have told you the story and given you its allegorical interpretation....

  8. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.450

    § 10.450 Say: O credulous ones, Tzetzes...

  9. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.460

    § 10.460 Lest he fill up the scrolls with extraneous detail....

  10. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.470

    § 10.470 And even before Phoenix...

  11. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.474

    § 10.474 ( TE2.333 ) CONCERNING THE FLAME COLOURED CHLANIS GARMENT THAT SYLOSON GAVE DARIUS When Darius...

  12. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.480

    § 10.480 ( TE2.334 ) CONCERNING: “WHEN MANY DECADES HAVE GONE” Oppian...

  13. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.491

    § 10.491 ( TE2.335 ) CONCERNING THE PROVERB: “I RECEIVED PYRKAIA,...

  14. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.500

    § 10.500 That we call fire pyr, after its discoverer,...

  15. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.506

    § 10.506 ( TE2.336 ) CONCERNING: “WHAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED” The Greeks say,...

  16. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.515

    § 10.515 ( TE2.337 ) CONCERNING: “AND GRACES OF MANIFOLD BEAUTY” Hesiod...

  17. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.520

    § 10.520 “From many parts did Graces...

  18. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.523

    § 10.523 ( TE2.338 ) CONCERNING THE CHALYBIAN IRON The Chalybians...

  19. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.527

    § 10.527 ( TE2.339 ) CONCERNING: “AND IF IT WAS CREATED,...

  20. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.543

    § 10.543 ( TE2.340 ) CONCERNING THE WORD ANXINOUS....

  21. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.550

    § 10.550 Instead of saying logismon (capacity of reasoning),...

  22. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.556

    § 10.556 ( TE2.341 ) TZETZES’ POVERTY,...

  23. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.570

    § 10.570 Because in the darkness and smoke of life There is empty glory in all places and all types of delusions,...

  24. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.577

    § 10.577 ( TE2.342 ) THE PROVERB: “FOR YOU WERE NOT THE FIRST OR ALONE IN SUFFERING THAT WHICH YOU DID” For those whose lot it is to suffer something first or alone,...

  25. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.590

    § 10.590 Darius found none,...

  26. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.597

    § 10.597 ( TE2.343 ) TO THOSE WHO PRACTICE THE PHILOSOPHY OF BEING There is a false and verbose philosophy,...

  27. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.607

    § 10.607 ( TE2.344 ) CONCERNING THE LYDIAN BASANOS STONE The basanos is a Lydian...

  28. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.611

    § 10.611 ( TE2.345 ) ALTHOUGH HOMER SPEAKS OF “WINGED WORDS”,...

  29. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.619

    § 10.619 ( TE2.346 ) CONCERNING EPAMEINONDAS THE THEBAN GENERAL Epameinondas...

  30. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.631

    § 10.631 ( TE2.347 ) CONCERNING CATO THE ROMAN This Cato...

  31. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.640

    § 10.640 So Cato asked where in the world he was supposed to get a thrush in summer....

  32. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.650

    § 10.650 So they sent emissaries and boxes of gold to him....

  33. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.660

    § 10.660 And said: “ Cato,...

  34. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.670

    § 10.670 Do you think he needs money and possessions?” I have quoted Cato...

  35. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.682

    § 10.682 ( TE2.348 ) CONCERNING MEGISTIAS THE ACARNANIAN,...

  36. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.690

    § 10.690 This was Megistias...

  37. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.700

    § 10.700 So Leonidas went with only his three hundred And killed many barbarians in the battle....

  38. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.710

    § 10.710 ( TE2.349 ) CONCERNING THE PROFESSION OF THE ASCLEPIADES Asclepius...

  39. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.720

    § 10.720 Such as the sons of Tyndareus...

  40. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.728

    § 10.728 ( TE2.350 ) CONCERNING THE SENATE OF THE EYE The ancients called “eyes” those who were Kings’ chief men,...

  41. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.740

    § 10.740 So far-seeing men were called ‘eyes’,...

  42. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.748

    § 10.748 ( TE2.351 ) CONCERNING NECTAR According to mythology ambrosia is a food of the gods,...

  43. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.756

    § 10.756 ( TE2.352 ) CONCERNING THE FOX WHICH CHEATED THE CROW OF A CHEESE There is a story by Aesop...

  44. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.766

    § 10.766 ( TE2.353 ) WHO ENGLOTOGASTOR,...

  45. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.780

    § 10.780 I count writers with this sort. We call anyone of this kind a cheirogastor,...

  46. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.786

    § 10.786 ( TE2.354 ) CONCERNING THE SILVER MUSE All the early poets wrote for free,...

  47. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.790

    § 10.790 ( TE2.355 ) CONCERNING PLATO’S SALE OF HIS DIALOGUES TO SICILY Plato...

  48. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.800

    § 10.800 So that no one should have to buy Pythagorean...

  49. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.813

    § 10.813 ( TE2.356 ) CONCERNING PLATO’S COOKING PRACTICE Plato...

  50. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.822

    § 10.822 ( TE2.357 ) CONCERNING PLATO’S FLATTERY OF RULERS That Plato...

  51. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.828

    § 10.828 ( TE2.358 ) CONCERNING PHILISTUS THE HISTORIAN AND PHILOXENUS,...

  52. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.839

    § 10.839 Philoxenus then,...

  53. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.850

    § 10.850 Philoxenus wrote back in such a manner,...

  54. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.862

    § 10.862 ( TE2.359 ) HOW PLATO,...

  55. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.870

    § 10.870 And for this reason he was sold as a slave by Polis....

  56. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.880

    § 10.880 Plato would never have been sold....

  57. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.886

    § 10.886 ( TE2.360 ) HOW THE AEGINETANS,...

  58. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.900

    § 10.900 Who its inhabitants were and what were their customs....

  59. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.910

    § 10.910 The Laestrygonians...

  60. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.920

    § 10.920 That is murder and slaying which they practised....

  61. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.930

    § 10.930 Odysseus gave the Cyclops...

  62. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.940

    § 10.940 So when the Cyclopes...

  63. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.950

    § 10.950 Whom Pericles had shut out completely,...

  64. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.960

    § 10.960 Pericles had as his lawful wife....

  65. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.979

    § 10.979 ( TE2.361 ) HOW PLATO MEASURED THE SICILIAN CHARYBDIS THREE TIMES Scylla...

  66. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.980

    § 10.980 From the west comes the narrow Tyrrhenian...

  67. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.990

    § 10.990 With no rest, it whirls terribly, Murmuring terribly like a fire-heated cauldron....

  68. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:10.995

    § 10.995 ( TE2.362 ) HOW PLATO,...

  69. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.1

    § 11.1 As well as the mime of Sophron...

  70. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.11

    § 11.11 CHILIADES BOOK 11, TRANSLATED BY MUHAMMAD SYARIF FADHLURRAHMAN THE PROVERB WE MENTIONED BEFORE,...

  71. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.20

    § 11.20 ( TE2.364 ) “WE TAKE NOT GIFTS FROM ANYONE....

  72. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.30

    § 11.30 For he feared gifts looking like provision of necessities....

  73. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.40

    § 11.40 For hundreds of mina and many more; like that of Philolaus...

  74. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.48

    § 11.48 ( TE2.365 ) HISTORICAL DICTION,...

  75. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.60

    § 11.60 Smooth are those possessing fleshless rumps....

  76. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.65

    § 11.65 ( TE2.366 ) CONCERNING THE BURN DOWN IN CROTON,...

  77. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.70

    § 11.70 A contemporary also of King Polycrates...

  78. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.80

    § 11.80 Then, being hated by them, was set ablaze with firewood,...

  79. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.90

    § 11.90 And fleeing to Metapontum...

  80. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.94

    § 11.94 ( TE2.367 ) REGARDING PASICRATES (OR STASICRATES),...

  81. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.97

    § 11.97 ( TE2.368 ) THAT ALEXANDER THE GREAT HAD TWISTED NECK AND EYES OF DIFFERENT COLOURS The great king Alexander...

  82. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.109

    § 11.109 ( TE2.369 ) HISTORY,...

  83. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.120

    § 11.120 Made the twelve into fourteen, Refutation on its own,...

  84. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.130

    § 11.130 The book of pre-exercises does list these....

  85. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.140

    § 11.140 You heard about the fable, how does this need writing? Although Aphthonius...

  86. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.150

    § 11.150 Clarity, grandeur, beauty and rapidity And with them also character,...

  87. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.160

    § 11.160 Clear, magnificent, brief and plausible,...

  88. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.170

    § 11.170 And with testimony of the ancients, and brief epilogue....

  89. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.180

    § 11.180 The unclarity, the impossibility and the forcelessness,...

  90. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.190

    § 11.190 The book of the sophist-rhetors, as we have said, Is a pentabiblos,...

  91. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.200

    § 11.200 Letter and spirit of the law, and also inference,...

  92. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.210

    § 11.210 From supposition and from superfluity,...

  93. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.217

    § 11.217 Tzetzes the unrhetoricked,...

  94. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.230

    § 11.230 This unrhetoricked Tzetzes...

  95. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.240

    § 11.240 Do not mean, as you say just now, “what has been done before” But they say summarily what is about to be said,...

  96. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.253

    § 11.253 But the ignorant one already confused you for the Eparch,...

  97. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.259

    § 11.259 Pentabiblos, as we said, the bible of the rhetors,...

  98. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.270

    § 11.270 Not to describe straight after the introduction,...

  99. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.280

    § 11.280 The third section thereof is about inventions....

  100. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:11.290

    § 11.290 First, I lay it down for you with these very same four,...

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