 | George Grote - 1850 - 706 sivua
...great bodily strength and endurance, are at the same time full of jests upon bis ugly physiognomy—his flat nose, thick lips, and prominent eyes, like a satyr or Silenus 2 . Nor can we implicitly trust the evidence of such very admiring witnesses, as to the philosopher's... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1853 - 608 sivua
...the severe frosts of Thrace ; and the same clothing sufficed for him in winter as well as in summer.* His forbidding physiognomy excited the jests both...p. 182, seqq. 3 Pausan., ix., 35 ; compare i., 22 ; Dioff. Laert., ii., 19. 4 rial., Sympos., p. 219, seqq. ; Alcib., p. 194 ; Diog. Laert., i., 22,... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1853 - 600 sivua
...companions. He went barefoot in all seasons of the year, even during the winter campaign at Potidaea, under the severe frosts of Thrace ; and the same clothing...Silenus. To all this was added the protuberance of a FalstafT-stomach, which no necessary hardships, no voluntary exercise could bring down. In his moral... | |
 | George Grote - 1859 - 232 sivua
...great bodily strength and endurance, are at the same time full of jests upon his ugly physiognomy; his flat nose, thick lips, and prominent eyes, like a satyr, or silenus. Nor can we implicitly trust the evidence of such very admiring witnesses, as to the philosopher's exemption... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1871 - 274 sivua
...with his disciples on the immortality of the soul. The personal appearance of Socrates was striking : he had a flat nose, thick lips, and prominent eyes, like a Silenus ; he went barefooted at all seasons^ and was capable of bearing great physical fatigue. His... | |
 | William Smith - 1877 - 536 sivua
...us in summer. His ugly physiognomy excited the jests both of his friends and enemies, who inform ns that he had a flat nose, thick lips, and prominent eyes, like a satyr or Sileuus. Of the circumstances of his life we are almost wholly ignorant; he served as a hoplite at... | |
 | William Smith - 1900 - 652 sivua
...summer. In features he is represented as having been singularly, and even grotesquely, ugly — with a flat nose, thick lips, and prominent eyes, like a Satyr or Silenus. Of the circumstances of his life we are almost wholly ignorant ; he served with credit as a hoplite... | |
 | William Smith - 1910 - 666 sivua
...of Thrace ; and the same homely clothing sufficed for him in winter as well as in summer. His ugly physiognomy excited the jests both of his friends...lips, and prominent eyes, like a satyr or Silenus. Of the circumstances of his life we are almost wholly ignorant : he served as an hoplite at Potidaea,... | |
 | Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) - 1927 - 902 sivua
...trucked its idolatry for the 1 The face of Socrates is here called a box, as I xmderstand. "His usly physiognomy excited the jests both of his friends...lips, and prominent eyes, like a Satyr or Silenus." (VV. Smith, Classical Dictionary, 19th edn., 1886, p. 173, vv Socrates). Godinho would have been clearer... | |
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... hardship, and indifferent to heat or cold, in a measure which astonished all his companions. He went barefoot in all seasons of the year, even during the winter campaign at Potidaea, under the severe frosts of Thrace ; and the same homely clothing... 