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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Aristotle, Rhetoric (ed. J. H. Freese) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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It is no great thing to possess strength,
whatever kind it is, but to use it as one should. For of what advantage to Milo of Croton was
his enormous strength of body?How Milo's strength brought about his death is told in Strabo 6.1.12.
The death of Polydamas, the
Thessalian, when he was crushed by the rocks,Polydamas, a
famous athlete, was in a cave when the roof began to crack. His companions fled to safety, but
Polydamas thought he could support the roof (cp. Pa his enormous strength of body?How Milo's strength brought about his death is told in Strabo 6.1.12.
The death of Polydamas, the
Thessalian, when he was crushed by the rocks,Polydamas, a
famous athlete, was in a cave when the roof began to crack. His companions fled to safety, but
Polydamas thought he could support the roof (cp. Paus. 6.5.4
ff.). made clear to all men how precarious it is to have great strength but
little sense.Const. Exc. 4, pp. 285-286.
And now it will be useful to distinguish those Greeks who
chose the side of the barbarians, in order that, incurring our censure here, their example may,
by the obloquy visited upon them, deter for the future any who may become traitors to the
common freedom. The Aenianians, Dolopians, Melians,The inhabitants of Malis (also called Melis) in S. Thessaly,
not of the island Melos in the southern Aegean. Perrhaebians, and Magnetans took the side of the
barbarians even while the defending force was still at Tempe, and after its departure the Achaeans of Phthia, Locrians, Thessalians, and
the majority of the Boeotians went over to the barbarians. But
the Greeks who were meeting in congress at the IsthmusAt
Corinth. voted to make the Greeks who
voluntarily chose the cause of the Persians pay a tithe to the gods, when they should be
successful in the war, and to send ambassadors to those Greeks who were neutral to urge them to
join in