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44460	One of the riddles proposed was-- What animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?
44460	S. Roe''s Select Stories.= True to the Last$ 1 50 The Star and the Cloud 1 50 How Could He Help it?
44460	The enigma proposed by the Sphinx to OEdipus was:--What animal in the morning walks upon four feet, at noon upon two, and in the evening upon three?
52081	(?)
52081	121: Sum cochleis habilis, sed nec minus utilis ovis: Numquid scis potius cur cochleare vocer?]
52081	20.--TERRACOTTA STATUETTE OF COMIC ACTOR( MONEY- LENDER?)
52081	21.--TERRACOTTA STATUETTE OF COMIC ACTOR( SLAVE?)
52081	At one end is a fixed weight in the form of a head( of the Sun- god?).
52081	For the votive spearheads(?)
52081	It is illustrated in a drawing of Peleus by the vase- painter Amasis(?)
52081	On the left is the bridegroom( Olympio?)
52081	On the right comes the marriage procession approaching a woman( Pardalisca?)
52081	The words are--+ CIRCVS PLENVS++ CLAMOR INGENS++ IANVAE TE+?
52081	_ te(nsae)_"Circus full,""Great shouting,""Doors bursting(?)."
9627	How did so many great stones come here?
9627	But were these the wonders Schliemann had promised?
9627	Do you think the button at the top may have had a socket for a horse hair plume?
9627	Do you think those are knapsacks tied to the lances?
9627	Every now and then they shouted out, when some wonderful thing was uncovered, and Schliemann would stop work and cry,"Did not I tell you?
9627	FOREWORD: TO BOYS AND GIRLS Do you like to dig for hidden treasure?
9627	Have you ever found Indian arrowheads or Indian pottery?
9627	If a great modern city should be buried, and men should dig it up three thousand years later, what do you think they will say about us?
9627	Is it not worth the work?"
9627	Was this to be all?
9627	What kind of a man had he been and what kind of life had he lived-- black or white or red, robber or beggar or adventurer?
9627	What will it be?"
9627	Why were all these things there?
9626	Are you smiling at him?
9626	Do you see, lad?
9626	Is it so wonderful?
9626	Or are you dreaming of Olympos? 9626 Shall we go home, Charmides?"
9626	Who is he?
9626	Why are you so solemn, son?
9626	Are you carrying him to the nymphs on Mount Nysa?"
9626	Are you so starved?"
9626	As the three walked back to camp, Menon said:"Who shall write your chorus of triumph, Creon?
9626	But what cared the happy travelers for dust or heat?
9626	Did they know that the little marble baby in the statue near them was the god of the vineyard and had taught men to make wine?
9626	Do you think his statue shows all these things?
9626	FOREWORD: TO BOYS AND GIRLS Do you like to dig for hidden treasure?
9626	Have you ever found Indian arrowheads or Indian pottery?
9626	How did he shape the head?
9626	How did his bodies curve?
9626	Of the three thousand statues that had been there should they not find one?
9626	Then Charmides blushingly whispered,"May I sing you something, father?
9626	What expression was on his faces?
9626	What kind of a man had he been and what kind of life had he lived-- black or white or red, robber or beggar or adventurer?
9626	What would it be?
9626	Where could it have come from?
9625	''Cross that melted rock?'' 9625 What is it?
9625	Where are the others?
9625	Who can steer without sun or stars?
9625	Will it never stop?
9625	And had she sent her treasure here to escape when the volcano burst forth?
9625	And then what?
9625	Ariston called to him,"Which way to the gate?"
9625	But what of the people themselves?
9625	But where to dig?"
9625	Can you find the goat''s horns among his curls?
9625	Can you see that the doors are very high with a grating at the top to let in light and air?
9625	Did some rich lady of the city have this farm for her country place?
9625	Did they all escape?
9625	Do you know of any such place, Ariston?"
9625	Do you see how the tiled roof slants downward from four sides to a rectangular opening in the highest part of the house?
9625	Does n''t he look as if he loved to dance, snapping his fingers to keep time?
9625	FOREWORD: TO BOYS AND GIRLS Do you like to dig for hidden treasure?
9625	Had some thief stolen them and hidden here, only to be caught by the volcano?
9625	Have you ever found Indian arrowheads or Indian pottery?
9625	How beautiful could they have been?
9625	How did they come here in this farmhouse?
9625	How did they look?
9625	Or had Poseidon carried him?
9625	Or was every one else in some safe place?
9625	Was all the rest of the world dead?
9625	Were customers buying the night''s dessert when Vesuvius frightened them away?
9625	Were they real men and women?
9625	What do you say, my friend?
9625	What has happened to us?"
9625	What kind of a man had he been and what kind of life had he lived-- black or white or red, robber or beggar or adventurer?
9625	What was below?
9625	Where was the city gate?
9625	Whose house was this?
9625	Will you be our guide in Athens?"
9625	Would he never get out?
9625	Would n''t it be fun if they had such exciting pictures as this?
2484	And if you fail,said Philip,"what will you forfeit for your rashness?"
2484	What,said Croesus, angrily,"and dost not thou reckon us amongst the happy men at all?"
2484	Wherein,say they,"have we injured or offended you, as to deserve such sufferings, past and present?
2484	And both of them at the same time cried out, he that received the blow, in Latin,"Vile Casca, what does this mean?"
2484	Another schoolmaster telling him that he had a copy of Homer corrected by himself;"Why?"
2484	Antigonus, after the victory, asked the Macedonians, to try them, how it happened that the cavalry had charged without orders before the signal?
2484	But why might we not as well once more hear a speech from Cicero?"
2484	Considering therefore with myself Whom shall I set so great a man face to face?
2484	Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon?
2484	His friend asked him in reply,"Where is it you have been, Cicero?"
2484	How then, some may say, was it, that Aeschines speaks of him as a person much to be wondered at for his boldness in speaking?
2484	If they had not an answer ready to the question, Who was a good or who an ill- reputed citizen?
2484	In what a condition do you think his family is at his house, when you see him appear in public in such a threadbare cloak?
2484	Is it not probable that one, who, out of doors, goes thus exposed to the cold, must want food and other necessaries at home?
2484	Is it wrong to gratify a mother in a request like this?
2484	Menander, in one of his comedies, alludes to this marvel when he says, Was Alexander ever favored more?
2484	Or whom oppose?
2484	Satyr- king, instead of swords, Will you always handle words?
2484	She, catching him about the neck and kissing him, said,"O father, do you not know that Perseus is dead?"
2484	Sylla answering, that he knew not as yet whom to spare, he asked:"Will you then tell us whom you will punish?"
2484	This being reported to Pompey, he said,"Does Pompey''s life depend upon the luxury of Lucullus?"
2484	Upon which the other, raising his voice, exclaimed loudly,"What, Demosthenes, nothing has been done to me?"
2484	What could be a stronger proof of the blindness and infatuation of human nature, when carried away by its passions?
2484	What have I lived for since, but to bring misfortunes upon Pompey the Great?"
2484	What he thought of such an action of such a man?
2484	When the outbreak between Caesar and Pompey came, Cicero wavered painfully between both, for he writes in his epistles,"To which side should I turn?
2484	When they were met, he said:"What is it you intend, you men of Sparta?
2484	Which shall we call the worst, their love- making or your compassion?
2484	Who''s equal to the place?
2484	Why did you come to see me, and not rather leave me to my evil destiny, who have loaded you, too, with such a weight of calamities?
2484	With the diffusion of this money, at once a number of vices were banished from Lacedaemon; for who would rob another of such a coin?
2484	said Alcibiades,"do you employ your time in teaching children to read?
2484	what is it you have done to me?"
14033	And if there were one?
14033	Then,asked Croesus angrily,"do you not reckon me at all among happy men?"
14033	Unhappy man,said Solon,"what was his name?"
14033	What greater pleasure could''st thou gain than this?
14033	What wrong have we done to you,said they,"that we should have suffered and should even now suffer such cruel treatment at your hands?
14033	Where can you find an adulterer in Sparta?
14033	Whom of the Greeks,asked Artabanus,"are we to tell him is come?
14033	Why art thou silent, my son? 14033 And why do you depreciate the value of my victory, and make my success a small one, by proving degenerate and an unworthy antagonist for Romans? 14033 Being asked, what he thought was the best managed city? 14033 But Brutus, addressing each of his sons by name, said,Come, Titus, come Tiberius, why do you make no answer to the charges against you?"
14033	But at this Brennus insolently took off his sword and belt, and flung them into the scale; and when Sulpicius asked,"What is this?"
14033	But, it may be asked, did not Rome flourish by her wars?
14033	Demaratus, when some worthless fellow pestered him with unreasonable queries, and several times inquired,"Who is the best man in Sparta?"
14033	He, stretching out his shoe, said,"Is it not beautiful?
14033	In answer to those who were angry with him, he would ask,"Are you weary of always receiving benefits from the same hand?"
14033	Marcius, crying out,"What have you done to me, mother?"
14033	So now,"said he,"if I had not come first, where would you all have been now?"
14033	So when I was reflecting, in the words of Aeschylus,"Against this chieftain, who can best contend?
14033	Some one then asked him,"Laconian, what have you gained by your victory?"
14033	The Athenians would eat this place up with their teeth if they knew what misfortunes it will bring upon them?"
14033	The stranger, astonished, asked"Where can you find so big a bull?"
14033	They at once retorted,"Nay, what do you mean by dragging one of the bravest and best men in Rome to a cruel and illegal death?"
14033	What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?
14033	What profit shall he not reap as to the business of men, by reading the Lives of Plutarch?
14033	When one of his friends said to him,"Alkibiades, do you not trust your native country?"
14033	Who is he?
14033	Whom shall I match in fight, what trusty friend?"
14033	is it not new?
14033	is she not beautiful?
14033	is she not fruitful?"
14033	or"How is such a thing done?"
14033	or"Who is a man of bad repute?"
44315	How incurable?
44315	What then,said Cassius,"if they summon us?"
44315	What,said he,"do you abuse Cornelia, the mother of Tiberius?"
44315	Why, you fool,said the man,"do you hesitate?
44315	Why,replied he,"what other mark could they have but me?
44315	----, Lucius( Manilius?
44315	----, a Theban( son of the preceding?
44315	----, quæstor( censor?
44315	----,(?
44315	----,(?)
44315	----,(?)
44315	16( Publius Crassus?).
44315	16(?)
44315	2, and(?)
44315	23, 35, 38, 40?
44315	34?
44315	3;( the same?)
44315	5, 15, 35, 73?.
44315	65, 66, 69, 70, 75?, 76?, 79?, 80?.
44315	65, 66, 69, 70, 75?, 76?, 79?, 80?.
44315	65, 66, 69, 70, 75?, 76?, 79?, 80?.
44315	Again when the sweetmeats were placed on the table, Demetrius said to Demo,"Do you see what fine things Lamia sends me?"
44315	All she said was:"My children, whither have you come?"
44315	Amantius( Matius?
44315	And as the man laboured under the imputation of being a dissolute fellow, he added,"How can you have the impudence to compare yourself with Cornelia?
44315	And the tribunal of Brutus, who was prætor, was found every morning full of such writings as these:"Brutus, are you asleep?"
44315	And what is there at Rome so sacred, so venerated as the virgins who guard the ever- burning fire?
44315	And why make a virtuous man of him who was only austere, and who did not believe in the virtues that he professed?
44315	Antistia in surprise replied,"What is the need or the hurry, unless you have got Tiberius Gracchus for her husband?"
44315	Antistius( Appuleius?
44315	Antonius, believing the intelligence, said to himself,"Why dost thou still delay, Antonius?
44315	At this the man raised his voice and excitedly exclaimed,"Do you say, Demosthenes, that I have not been ill- treated?"
44315	Augustus now turned round towards the statue, and, knitting his brows, asked,"Is not this my enemy who stands here?"
44315	Brutus, do you not know yourself?
44315	But it may be said, why seek in a Roman of his age what we can not expect to find?
44315	But when Demetrius said to the ambassador:--"What is this that you tell me?
44315	But why then is he exalted, and why is his name invoked?
44315	Casca was startled at this, whereon the other smiled and said,"How have you grown so rich all at once as to become a candidate for the ædileship?"
44315	Cassius being now encouraged said,"What Roman will endure that you die first?
44315	Demetrius sharply answered,"Why do you take offence at this?
44315	Do n''t you know that the giver is the son of Antonius, and that he has permission to give so many things of gold?
44315	Do you have to pay the dead?"
44315	Do you not know that burglary and treachery are alike punished with death?"
44315	Galba looked at him, and said,"Who ordered you to kill him?"
44315	Have you been a mother, as she has?"
44315	He answered,"Artasyras, do you not see that it is Cyrus, who is dead?"
44315	He had the courage to ask,"What man or god art thou, or with what purpose dost thou come to us?"
44315	How then, one might ask, was it that Æschines in his orations speaks of Demosthenes as a man of unbounded impudence?
44315	How valuable is your scimitar?
44315	Is it on account of your mother that we are going to Egypt?
44315	Is she to embrace you as her uncle or as her husband also?"
44315	Is there not, however, another view of this question?
44315	Just when I am striving to win a kingdom, do you bid me prove myself unworthy of one?"
44315	Kleomenes, suspecting what he meant, asked,"What do you mean, Lysandridas?
44315	Metellus Nepos during a dispute with Cicero often repeated,"Who is your father?"
44315	Mithridates, who was already in liquor, answered:"What are these things, Sparamixes?
44315	Now, therefore, since fortune has placed us in your power, how do you propose to settle this difficulty?
44315	On Nasica asking[79] him,"What if Tiberius had told you to burn the Capitol?"
44315	Once Lysimachus, meaning to be very civil to him said,"Philippides, which of my possessions shall I bestow upon you?"
44315	Or shall we rather punish this fellow for his crimes, and thus prove ourselves the avengers of Nero, and the faithful guards of Galba?"
44315	Parysatis was especially enraged by the reproaches of Statira, who asked her loudly,"Where now are the pledges you gave us?
44315	Recognising the eunuchs who were mourning over the body, he asked the most trusted of them,"Pariskas, who is this beside whom you sit weeping?"
44315	Rustius( Roscius?
44315	Shall we choose the son of Nymphidia for our emperor, and slay the son of Livia as we slew the son of Agrippina?
44315	Shall we then kill Galba as well as Nero?
44315	Standing on the prow of his vessel Antonius asked who it was that was pursuing Antonius?
44315	The Pythia returned the following answer:--"Dost thou, fair Sikyon, hesitate to raise A fitting tomb to thy lost hero''s praise?
44315	The wretch, who worships mortals like to gods, His crimes destroy us, not my harmless rhymes?"
44315	To reduce this philosopher to his true level, we ask, what did he say or do that showed a sympathy with all mankind?
44315	Upon this Brutus, greatly angered, said,"Why then do you ask me, Casca, and why do n''t you do what you like?"
44315	What end do you expect of this?"
44315	What faith can we put in the laws or in the deities since the murder of Tiberius?"
44315	What single act is there in the man''s life which promised the regeneration of his country and the freedom of mankind?
44315	What single title had he to distinction except what Cæsar gave him?
44315	What, indeed, is the object of the wars and dangers which bad kings endure, in their folly, unless it be this?
44315	Where is the evidence that he had the feeling of justice which alone can regenerate a nation?
44315	Who was it caused the frost to blight our vines?
44315	Why make a hero of him who murdered his benefactor, and then ran away from the city which he was to save-- from we know not what?
44315	Why should we recklessly embark on this voyage merely in order to exchange our misfortunes at home for others in a distant country?
44315	Why then elevate him above the rest of his age and consecrate his name?
44315	Will a sow teach Athena?"
44315	but Dionysodorus of Troezene proves him to be wrong, and restores the proverb to its original form:"Who vaunt their fathers, save the worst of sons?"
44315	do you bid me give you back your city?"
44315	for we ourselves used to do just the same thing at Syracuse?"
44315	or how was it that when Python of Byzantium was pouring forth a flood of invective against Athens, Demosthenes alone rose and answered him?