The Quarterly Review, Volumes 256-257William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1931 |
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... Libanius the sophist , and Gregory of Nazianzus the bishop . His own writings and letters are also many , and throw much light upon his bewildering personality . By Libanius he is belauded extravagantly ; by Ammianus he is praised , and ...
... Libanius the sophist , and Gregory of Nazianzus the bishop . His own writings and letters are also many , and throw much light upon his bewildering personality . By Libanius he is belauded extravagantly ; by Ammianus he is praised , and ...
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... Libanius show that Julian would never accept the good terms the Persians offered . He also says in that speech , ' exterminat- ing every licentiousness by my actions , ' whereas he had revived the Maiuma , ‡ a most indecent festival in ...
... Libanius show that Julian would never accept the good terms the Persians offered . He also says in that speech , ' exterminat- ing every licentiousness by my actions , ' whereas he had revived the Maiuma , ‡ a most indecent festival in ...
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... Libanius's picture of Julian after a light breakfast seated upon a pile of books and singing away || until evening is that of a frugal but not necessarily of a continent person . The question of Libanius : was he not more chaste than ...
... Libanius's picture of Julian after a light breakfast seated upon a pile of books and singing away || until evening is that of a frugal but not necessarily of a continent person . The question of Libanius : was he not more chaste than ...
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