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Agesilaus, thou art excused from the public table to-day if thou wouldst sup with thy brave son at home." "Nay," said Agesilaus, "my son will go to his pheidition and I to mine as I did on the day when I lost my first-born." On quitting the Hall of the Ephors, Lysander found himself at once on the Spartan Agora, wherein that Hall was placed.
They are adapting a military device to the purposes of an industrial age. Since the invention of artillery, the rectangular street-plan has been regarded by soldiers as useful in defending the streets of a town. GENERAL OUTLINE OF PRIENE. A, B, C. Gates. G. Agora, Market. I. Council House, K. Prytaneion. L, Q. Gymnasium. The best instance of the new system is not perhaps the most famous.
There wait the automobiles to carry the pleasure bent to Kelly's grove at Fa'a, where the maxixe and the tango rage, the hula-dancers quiver and quaver, and wassail has no bounds. When the whites are at dinner, the natives meet in the market-place, which is the agora, as the place du gouvernment is the forum of the dance and music of these ocean Greeks.
He’s gentleman born, by Demeter!” “War makes many changes,” rejoined Dion. “Ai! is he beside himself or a kidnapper? He is walking off with the babe.” The stranger indeed had seemed to forget them all and was going with swift strides up the Agora, but just before Niobe could begin her outcry he wheeled, and brought his merry burden back to the nurse’s arms.
He now consulted the oracle at Delphi, and was told that the gods would support him in what he proposed to do. Coming back to Sparta, he secretly gathered a body-guard of thirty armed men from among the noblest citizens, and then presented himself in the Agora, or place of public assembly, announcing that he had come to end the disorders of his native land.
It was Nicias; and when he read the question in the faces and glances of the two, he answered, without waiting to be asked: "From the Agora!" "What is the news from the Agora?" "The Assembly seeks help from the Macedonians." "Why not from the Persians? Good! then the end is near. Do they seek help from the enemy? From the barbarian, the Macedonian, who lies above us like a lion on a hill.
Though they could meet in the Agora of Athens and decide the fate of the Athenian Republic, or in the meadow of the Gemeinde at Appenzell, or any of the other small Swiss cantons, in a country with even only a couple of million of people, you must rely on the Representative System.
In his caustic fashion the old man describes these fops formed after the model of the Greek talkers of the agora, dealing in jests and witticisms, singing and dancing, ready for anything; such an one was, in his opinion, good for nothing but to exhibit himself as harlequin in a procession and to bandy talk with the public he would sell his talk or his silence for a bit of bread.
Here was the house of Cimon, in whose dining room he had enjoyed many a bright symposium. He trod the Agora and walked under the porticos where he had lounged in the golden evenings after the brisk stroll from the wrestling ground at Cynosarges, and had chatted and chaffered with light-hearted friends about “the war” and “the king,” in the days when the Persian seemed very far away.
For it is only when one believes devoutly that Zeus procured access to Danae in a shower of gold, that his action gives a divine sanction to such traffic in beauty on the agora or in the forum. It is only when the poets make no pretense of recounting facts that they can escape the clutches of the philosophers.
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