 | Plutarch - 1870 - 560 pages
...Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much business stirring ? It may truly be asked concerning a man that is either of public employ or a scholar,... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1874 - 558 pages
...Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much business stirring ? It may truly be asked concerning a man that is either of public employ or a scholar,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1889 - 562 pages
...Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much business stirring 1 It may truly be asked concerning a man that is either of public employ or a scholar,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 pages
...Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring ? " 25. ' Veni, vidi, vici. * See Publius Syrus, pace 714. * See " Of Unknown Authorship," page 707.... | |
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... at all, — nor do they so much as think of it, their minds being intent upon that employ they are in, either the delight or diligence of the soul getting the mastery over all other desires. Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man... 