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"Well, Eubulides," inquired he, with the bland raillery of an Immortal, "has it at length occurred to thee that I may have been long enough away from Parnassus, filling thy place here while thou hast been disporting thyself amid heretics and barbarians?" The abashed Eubulides made no response. The Deity continued: "Deem not that thou hast in aught excited the displeasure of the Gods.
"He prognosticated her decease on the following day, which accordingly came to pass, from her being choked with a piece of gold, not lawfully appertaining to herself, which she was endeavouring to conceal under the root of her tongue." "The Gods be praised for that!" ejaculated Eubulides, under his breath. "Pshaw! as if there were Gods! If they existed, would they tolerate this vile mockery?
"Aye, if Phoebus himself ministered at his own shrine, he could wear no more majestic semblance than Eubulides." "Or predict the future more accurately," added a priest. "Or deliver his oracles in more exquisite verse," subjoined a poet.
He learned his eloquence from Plato, his dialectics from Eubulides; but as for his delivery there, he came to the mirror! "Therefore," concluded Mr. Caxton, returning unexpectedly to the subject, "therefore, it is no reason to suppose that Dr.
But what seems to have exercised most of his ingenuity was the famous Liar, the invention of which is ascribed to Eubulides. This fallacy in its simplest form is as follows. If you say truly that you are telling a lie, are you lying or telling the truth? Chrysippus set this down as inexplicable. Nevertheless he was far from declining to discuss it.
These seem most of them to have been invented by the Megarians and especially by Eubulides of Miletus a disciple of Eucleides but they became associated with the Stoics both by friends and foes who either praise their subtlety or deride their solemnity in dealing with them. Chrysippus himself was not above propounding such sophisms as the following
Eubulides and the crowd sank simultaneously on their knees, for all recognised Apollo. All was silence for a space. It was at length broken by Phoebus.
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