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  • To be violently drawn and moved by the lusts and desires of the soul, is proper to wild beasts and monsters, such as Phalaris and Nero were.

    Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

  • Mixtapology Volume Three, the new podcast from DJ Phalaris, has recently been released at FudoMouth. net.

    It’s A Wonderful Apocalypse? | Disinformation 2007

  • In this expansive third mix, DJ Phalaris structures a layered and thematic sonic journey thru the shadowed mind of apocalypse longing, prophecy and prediction from science fiction to the book of revelation, a challenging mix that unravels the absurdity of extreme thinking without ever breaking stride …

    It’s A Wonderful Apocalypse? | Disinformation 2007

  • No torture of body like unto it, Siculi non invenere tyranni majus tormentum, no strappadoes, hot irons, Phalaris 'bulls,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Phalaris and Busiris were the gentlest of men in comparison with you.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Small seeds can be carried on the wind, as is the case with the aquatic grasses Phragmites and Phalaris and other emergents (e.g. Typha).

    Macrophytes 2007

  • If Hippocrates had ordered his patients to take hellebore under pain of being hanged, he would have been more insane and barbarous than Phalaris, and would have had little practice.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The copper nose of the gracious Duncan now became heated like the Bull of Phalaris, and while Mr. Archibald mediated betwixt the offended parties, and the attention of the company was engaged by their dispute, Butler took an opportunity to effect his retreat.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • If I get these two girls into my power, Heaven forbid that I should be a second Phalaris, who turned his bull upon the artist! —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Greek delighted to draw of Phalaris and Dionysius, in which, as in the lives of mediaeval saints or mythic heroes, the conduct and actions of one were attributed to another in order to fill up the outline.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

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