 | Plutarchus - 1809 - 666 Seiten
...great in that carelessness, that while his courtiers were ridiculing and abusing him as a monster, he said ; " If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be " Diogenes." He chose to consult the oracle about the event of the war, and for that purpose went to Delphi. He... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 348 Seiten
...great in that carelessness, that while his courtiers were ridiculing and abusing him as a monster, he said ; " If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes." He chose to consult the oracle about the svent of the war, 'and for that purpose went to Delphi. He... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 550 Seiten
...great in that carelessness, that, while his courtiers were ridiculing the philosopher as a monster, he said, — " If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes." He chose to consult the oracle about the event of the war, and for that purpose went to Delphi. He... | |
 | Plutarch - 1828 - 484 Seiten
...great in that carelessness, that, while his courtiers were ridiculing the philosopher as a monster, he said, — " If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes." He chose to consult the oracle about the event of the war, and for that purpose went to Delphi. He... | |
 | Plutarch - 1832 - 444 Seiten
...great in that carelessness, that while his courtiers were ridiculing the philosopher as a monster, he said, " If I were not Alexander I should wish to be Diogenes." One of the days called inauspicious, upon which the law permitted no man to put his question. At first... | |
 | Plutarch - 1832 - 446 Seiten
...great in that carelessness, that while his courtiers were ridiculing the philosopher as a monster, he said, " If I were not Alexander I should wish to be Diogenes." He chose to consult the oracle about the event of the war, and for that purpose went to Delphi. He... | |
 | Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough - 1905
...great in that carelessness, that, while his courtiers were ridiculing the philosopher as a monster, he said,—" If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes." He chose to consult the oracle about the event of the war, and for that purpose went to Delphi. He... | |
 | François Le Harivel - 1835 - 264 Seiten
..."said the philosopher, " to take yourself out of my light." Alexander, turning towards his courtiers, said : " If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes." THE FANATIC CONFOUNDED. The duke of Guise, who was chief of the League in the due , qui était chef... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1838 - 478 Seiten
...immediately what they kill, the birds must certainly be roasted in their feathers. The Grecian monarch said, " if I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes ;" and many people, seeing this little paragon of a cottage, might be ready to exclaim, " if I were... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1848 - 478 Seiten
...immediately what they kill, the birds must certainly be roasted in their feathers. The Grecian monarch said, " if I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes ;" and many people, seeing this little paragon of a cottage, might be ready to exclaim, " if I were... | |
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Only stand a little out of my sunshine," said Diogenes. Alexander, we are told, was struck with such surprise at finding himself so little regarded, and saw something so great in that carelessness, that, while his courtiers were ridiculing the philosopher... 
