1. Xenophon, Memoirs, 3.11.1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •instructions, secret, too holy to be uttered •secret instructions, too holy to be uttered Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 290| 3.11.1. γυναικὸς δέ ποτε οὔσης ἐν τῇ πόλει καλῆς, ᾗ ὄνομα ἦν Θεοδότη, καὶ οἵας συνεῖναι τῷ πείθοντι, μνησθέντος αὐτῆς τῶν παρόντων τινὸς καὶ εἰπόντος ὅτι κρεῖττον εἴη λόγου τὸ κάλλος τῆς γυναικός, καὶ ζωγράφους φήσαντος εἰσιέναι πρὸς αὐτὴν ἀπεικασομένους, οἷς ἐκείνην ἐπιδεικνύειν ἑαυτῆς ὅσα καλῶς ἔχοι, ἰτέον ἂν εἴη θεασομένους, ἔφη ὁ Σωκράτης· οὐ γὰρ δὴ ἀκούσασί γε τὸ λόγου κρεῖττον ἔστι καταμαθεῖν. καὶ ὁ διηγησάμενος, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιτʼ, ἔφη, ἀκολουθοῦντες. | 3.11.1. At one time there was in Athens a beautiful woman named Theodoté, who was ready to keep company with anyone who pleased her. One of the bystanders mentioned her name, declaring that words failed him to describe the lady’s beauty, and adding that artists visited her to paint her portrait, and she showed them as much as decency allowed. We had better go and see her, cried Socrates ; of course what beggars description can’t very well be learned by hearsay. |
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| 2. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 837 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •instructions, secret, too holy to be uttered •secret instructions, too holy to be uttered Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 290 |
| 3. Tibullus, Elegies, 1.3.23 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •instructions, secret, too holy to be uttered •secret instructions, too holy to be uttered Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 290 |
| 4. Propertius, Elegies, None (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 290 |
| 5. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 13.22.71 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •instructions, secret, too holy to be uttered, instruction to sell clothes Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 28 |
6. Plutarch, On Isis And Osiris, 4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •instructions, secret, too holy to be uttered •secret instructions, too holy to be uttered Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 290 | 4. It is true that most people are unaware of this very ordinary and minor matter: the reason why the priests remove their hair and wear linen garments. Cf. Herodotus, ii. 37 and 81. Some persons do not care at all to have any knowledge about such things, while others say that the priests, because they revere the sheep, In Saïs and Thebaïs according to Strabo, xvii. 40 (p. 812). abstain from using its wool, as well as its flesh; and that they shave their heads as a sign of mourning, and that they wear their linen garments because of the colour which the flax displays when in bloom, and which is like to the heavenly azure which enfolds the universe. But for all this there is only one true reason, which is to be found in the words of Plato Phaedo , 67 b; Cf. Moralia , 108 d. ; for the Impure to touch the Pure is contrary to divine ordice. No surplus left over from food and no excrementitious matter is pure and clean; and it is from forms of surplus that wool, fur, hair, and nails originate and grow. Cf. Apuleius, Apology , chap. 26. So it would be ridiculous that these persons in their holy living should remove their own hair by shaving and making their bodies smooth all over, Cf. Herodotus, ii. 37. and then should put on and wear the hair of domestic animals. We should believe that when Hesiod Works and Days , 742-743. The meaning of these somewhat cryptic lines is, of course, that one should not pare one’s nails at table; Cf. also Moralia , ed. Bernardakis, vol. vii. p. 90. said, Cut not the sere from the green when you honour the gods with full feasting, Paring with glittering steel the member that hath the five branches, he was teaching that men should be clean of such things when they keep high festival, and they should not amid the actual ceremonies engage in clearing away and removing any sort of surplus matter. But the flax springs from the earth which is immortal; it yields edible seeds, and supplies a plain and cleanly clothing, which does not oppress by the weight required for warmth. It is suitable for every season and, as they say, is least apt to breed lice; but this topic is treated elsewhere. Plutarch touches briefly on this subject in Moralia , 642 c. |
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| 7. Apuleius, Florida, 6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •instructions, secret, too holy to be uttered, instruction to sell clothes Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 28 |
