 | Theophrastus - 1870 - 442 strani
...valour of those who went against Troy, might become emulous of deeds like theirs.' Xen. Symp. HI. 5 : ' My father, anxious that I should become a good man, made me learn all Homer's poetry ; and now I could say off (атго «гго/хотог ein-eíi/) the whole Iliad and... | |
 | Felix Adler - 1892 - 348 strani
...book from which they learned to read and write, was Homer. Xenophon in the Symposium has one of the guests say : " My father, anxious that I should become...could repeat the whole Iliad and Odyssey by heart."* We shall not go quite to the same length as Xenophon. We should hardly think it sufficient in order... | |
 | Walter Copland Perry - 1898 - 292 strani
...himself to Homer." In Xenophon's Symposium one of the company says : " My father, wishing me to be a good man, made me learn all the poems of Homer, and I can say the Iliad and Odyssey by heart."2 Athena^us,3 quoting from Carystius the historian, says... | |
 | Homer - 1899 - 204 strani
...high-heeled, and powdered paraphrase of Pope. A volume might easily be made of the praises of Homer. " My father, anxious that I should become a good man, made me learn all the poems of Homer," says the young man in Xenophon's Banquet. " The eulogists of Homer declare (says Plato) that he has... | |
 | Leonard Whibley - 1905 - 722 strani
...guests, — a fair type, it may be supposed, of the ordinary Greek of his class and age, — is made to say : — • ' My father, anxious that I should become...a good man, made me learn all the poems of Homer.' In another chapter (4. 6) of the same piece we read, ' Homer, the prince of poets, has treated almost... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1905 - 328 strani
...delightful as profitable. And then we shall perhaps understand what Xenophon meant when he made Nikeratus say, " My father, anxious that I should become a good man, made me learn all the poems of Homer by heart; for if any of us, he said, wants to become a prudent ruler of his house, or an orator, or... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1906 - 164 strani
...regarded as the best and greatest of educators. In Xenophon's Symposium one of the guests says : " My father, anxious that I should become a good man,...made me learn all the poems of Homer; and now I could say the whole Iliad and Odyssey by heart." . . . Especially, as Isocrates says, Homer was looked upon... | |
 | 1907 - 1038 strani
...common with the prophets and the poets who seek to uplift the soul of man." Xenophon makes Nikeratus say: "My father, anxious that I should become a good man, made me learn all the poems of Homer by heart." They tell us that Milton is hardly read now. So they tell us the Bible is not read. I do... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 strani
...celebrated passages expressed almost in the same terms. " My father," says Niceratus, in Xenophon, " anxious that I should become a good man, made me learn all the poems of Homer by heart, for if any of us, he said, wishes to become a prudent ruler of his house or an orator or... | |
 | William Seymour Tyler - 1912 - 382 strani
...book, he has written the words of one of the guests in Xenophon's Symposium: "My father, wanting me to become a good man, made me learn all the poems of Homer; and now I can say the v.hole Iliad and Odyssey by heart." The force and energy of the Homeric heroes charmed... | |
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