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6 results for "figures"
1. Philo of Alexandria, On The Change of Names, 18 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hyperbole Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2019) 241
18. And when the ruler has appeared, then he in a still greater degree benefits his disciple and beholder, saying, "I am thy God;" for I should say to him, "What is there of all the things which form a part of creation of which thou art not the God?" But his word, which is his interpreter, will teach me that he is not at present speaking of the world, of which he is by all means the creator and the God, but about the souls of men, which he has thought worthy of a different kind of care;
2. Philo of Alexandria, De Providentia, 2.40 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hyperbole Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2019) 241
3. Philo of Alexandria, On Dreams, 1.190 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hyperbole Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2019) 241
1.190. You see here, that the divine word speaks of dreams as sent from God; including in this statement not those only which appear through the agency of the chief cause itself, but those also which are seen through the operation of his interpreters and attendant angels, who are thought by the father who created them to be worthy of a divine and blessed lot:
4. Philo of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 178 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hyperbole Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2019) 241
5. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 11.170 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hyperbole Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2019) 187
6. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.125 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hyperbole Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2019) 187
7.125. Furthermore, the wise man does all things well, just as we say that Ismenias plays all airs on the flute well. Also everything belongs to the wise. For the law, they say, has conferred upon them a perfect right to all things. It is true that certain things are said to belong to the bad, just as what has been dishonestly acquired may be said, in one sense, to belong to the state, in another sense to those who are enjoying it.They hold that the virtues involve one another, and that the possessor of one is the possessor of all, inasmuch as they have common principles, as Chrysippus says in the first book of his work On Virtues, Apollodorus in his Physics according to the Early School, and Hecato in the third book of his treatise On Virtues.