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5 results for "eleusis"

1. Varro, On The Latin Language, 5.10.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, lesser propylaea Found in books: Belayche and Massa (2021) 42

2. Plutarch, Letter of Condolence To Apollonius, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, lesser propylaea Found in books: Belayche and Massa (2021) 192

107e. In another place also he says: Here she chanced to encounter the brother of Death, which is Slumber, and Slumber and Death, the twin brothers, thereby indicating this similarity in appearance, for twins show most similarity. And again somewhere he says that death is a "brazen sleep," in allusion to our insensibility in it. And not inelegantly did the man seem to put the case who called "sleep the Lesser Mysteries of death"; for sleep is really a preparatory rite for death. Very wise was the remark of the cynic Diogenes, who, when he had sunk into slumber and was about to depart this life, was roused by his physician,

3. Plutarch, On The Education of Children, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, lesser propylaea Found in books: Belayche and Massa (2021) 192

4. Plutarch, Coriolanus, 32.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, lesser propylaea Found in books: Belayche and Massa (2021) 192

32.2. ἐδέξατο μὲν οὖν εἰς τὸ στρατόπεδον τοὺς ἄνδρας, ἄλλο δʼ οὐδὲν ἔδωκεν οὐδʼ ἔπραξεν οὐδʼ εἶπε μαλακώτερον, ἀλλʼ ἐφʼ οἷς πρότερον ἐκέλευε ποιεῖσθαι τὰς διαλύσεις ἢ δέχεσθαι τὸν πόλεμον. ἐπανελθόντων οὖν τῶν ἱερέων ἔδοξεν ἀτρεμοῦντας ἐν τῇ πόλει τὰ τείχη φυλάττειν καὶ προσβάλλοντας ἀποκρούεσθαι τοὺς πολεμίους,

32.2. Dionysius, viii. 38. Accordingly, when the priests had returned, it was decided to remain quietly in the city, guarding its walls, and repulsing the enemy, should he make an attack.

5. Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation To The Greeks, 2.21.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, lesser propylaea Found in books: Belayche and Massa (2021) 171

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