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"Un tel qu'on vantait Par hasard etait D'origine assez mince; Par hasard il plut, Par hasard il fut Baron, ministre, et prince." Captain Clubbe's harsh voice broke into the song with the order to let go the anchor. As the ship swung to the tide the steersman, who wore neither coat nor waistcoat, could be seen idly handling the wheel still, though his duties were necessarily at an end.
But still it was a common exhibition for the cultivation of every art. Sophist, and historian, and orator, poet and painter found their mart in the Olympic fair. Plut. in vita Them. Pausanias, lib. v. When Phidias was asked on what idea he should form his statue, he answered by quoting the well-known verses of Homer, on the curls and nod of the thunder god.
The vanity of Nero was astonishing, but so was that of most of his successors. The Roman emperors were the sublimest coxcombs in history. In men born to stations which are beyond ambition, all aspirations run to seed. Plut. in Sympos. It does not appear that at Elis there were any of the actual contests in music and song which made the character of the Pythian games.
Written at Winterslow Hut, January 18-19, 1821. Webster's Duchess of Malfy. Shenstone and Gray were two men, one of whom pretended live to himself, and the other really did so. Plut. of Banishment. He compares those who cannot live out of their own country to the simple people who fancied the moon of Athens was a finer moon than that of Corinth, Labentem coelo quae ducitis annum. VIRG. Georg.
Thucydides, L. 1. sub initio. kai euklees touto oi Kilikes enomizon. Sextus Empiricus. ouk adoxon all'endoxon touto. Plut. Act. 2. It will be proper to say something here concerning the situation of the unfortunate men, who were thus doomed to a life of servitude.
The historian commends such of the Greeks as erected two temples to the divinity of that name, worshipping in the one as to a god, but in the other observing only the rites as to a hero.-B. ii., c. 13, 14. Plot. in Vit. Thes. Apollod., l. 3. This story is often borrowed by the Spanish romance-writers, to whom Plutarch was a copious fountain of legendary fable. Plut. in Vit. Thes. Mr.
"The harbour of Constantinople, which may be considered as an arm of the Bosphorus, obtained in a very remote period the denomination of the Golden Horn. The curve which it describes might be compared to the horn of a stag, or, as it should seem, with more propriety to that of an ox." Gib. c. 17; Strab. 1. x. Ion apud Plut. Herod. ix. 82. Plut. in Vit. Arist. Leader of ten men.
But now I will repeat to you what I have already said to that gentleman with the long sword, that Plut is the first in command, I the second; Plut is still alive, and he may play you a trick that will be your ruin, for he is a cunning specimen—you need to stuff his mouth with bank notes. Well, my friend, you with the long sword, have you called on Plut already? Have you had a talk with him?”
We will say that we came here on a visit, had a drink, danced, got a trifle tipsy, and that Plut accidentally gave the word to fire; then came a battle, and the battalion somehow melted away. If you gentlemen will only grease the inquiry with gold it will come out all right.
Plutarch makes Aristides speak of Xerxes as sitting under a canopy or Umbrella looking at the sea-fight "kathaeenos hupd skiadi chrysae." Plut. and of Cleopatra in like manner "upo skiadi chrysopasto." Plut.