 Reward, indicates still greater folly. Human nature, weak and frail as it is, mindful of its own infirmity, has made these divisions, so that every one might have recourse to that which he supposed himself to stand more particularly in need of. Hence...  The Natural History of Pliny - Strana 19podľa Pliny (the Elder) - 1855Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - Počet stránok 466
...every one might have recourse to that which he supposed himself to stand more particularly in need of. Hence we find different names employed by different...dedicated to Fever, at the public expense, on the Palatine Hill, and to Orbona, near the temple of the Lares, and that an altar was elected to Good Fortune on... | |
 | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim - 1993 - Počet stránok 1030
...different names employed hy different nations: the inferior deities are arranged in classes, and disX eases and plagues are deified, in consequence of our anxious wish to propitiate them, tPliny 2.5 [Bostock and Riley, 1:20-1l) 3. De Mundo— See note 16. ch. V1ll, hk. HL 4. divers names... | |
 | John J. Rousseau - Počet stránok 420
...deities are arranged in classes, diseases and plagues are deified ... to propitiate them. It was for this cause that a temple was dedicated to Fever, at the public expense, on the Palatine Hill [Nat. Hist. 2.15}. If the diseases could be seen as divine because they were caused by celestial... | |
 | Kenneth John Atchity, Rosemary McKenna - 1998 - Počet stránok 488
...every one might have recourse to that which he supposed himself to stand more particularly in need of. Hence we find different names employed by different...arranged in classes, and diseases and plagues are deitied, in consequence of our anxious wish to propitiate them. It was from this cause that a temple... | |
 | David Soren, Noelle Soren - 1998 - Počet stránok 1090
...also for many plagues, while in our anxious fear we hope that they have been placated. For this reason a temple was dedicated to Fever, at the public expense, on the Palatine hill." l5 It is interesting to note in this connection that Cicero's description of the Palatine as... | |
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