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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 8 | 8 | Browse | Search |
| Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Plato, Laws | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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CliniasOf course.AthenianYet, brave though these men are, we still maintain that they are far surpassed in bravery by those who are conspicuously brave in the greatest of wars; and we also have a poet for witness,—Theognis (a citizen of Sicilian Megara), who says: In the day of grievous feud, O Cyrnus, the loyal warrior is worth his weight in silver and gold.Theognis 5.77-8 BergkHe wrote sententious poetry about 550 B.C. Such a man, in a war much more grievous, is, we say, ever so much better than the other—nearly as much better, in fact, as the union of justice, prudence and wis