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I. Didymus the grammarian, in the book about Solon's laws which he wrote in answer to Asklepiades, quotes a saying of one Philokles, that Solon was the son of Euphorion, which is quite at variance with the testimony of all other writers who have mentioned Solon: for they all say that he was the son of Exekestides, a man whose fortune and power were only moderate, but whose family was of the noblest in Athens; for he was descended from Kodrus the last Athenian king.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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If any reader of the ICONOCLAST desires a splendid picture of this Italy, I refer him to Vernon Lee's "Euphorion," which pictures the land as an inferno.
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His boyhood had been saturated with Ruskin, and he had read all the latest books: John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee's "Euphorion," the essays of
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1899
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After he returned from the first Battle of Bull Run, Brady recalled, "My wife and my most conservative friends had looked unfavorably upon this departure from commercial business to pictorial war correspondence, and I can only describe the destiny that overruled me by saying that, like Euphorion, I felt that I had to go."
Mathew Brady's photographs made a president, captured reality of Civil War Jacqueline Trescott 2010
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Euphorion, who was surnamed the painter of the lips.
Les Miserables 2008
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Apollonius was a contemporary of Eratosthenes, Euphorion and Timarchus, in the time of Ptolemy Euergetes, and that he succeeded Eratosthenes in the headship of the Alexandrian Library.
The Argonautica 2008
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From this story and from no other Æschylus the son of Euphorion took381 this which I shall say, wherein he differs from all the preceding poets; he represented namely that Artemis was the daughter of Demeter.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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Callimachos after having proved himself a good man, and also one of the generals, Stesilaos the son of Thrasylaos, was killed; and besides this Kynegeiros the son of Euphorion while taking hold968 there of the ornament at the stern of a ship had his hand cut off with an axe and fell; and many others also of the Athenians who were men of note were killed.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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Laphanes an Azanian from the city of Paios, son of that Euphorion who (according to the story told in Arcadia) received the Dioscuroi as guests in his house and from thenceforth was wont to entertain all men who came, and Onomastos the son of Agaios of Elis; these, I say, came from Peloponnesus itself: from Athens came Megacles the son of that Alcmaion who went to Crœsus, and besides him
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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Whereof a right pregnant instance by them is given in the nativities of Aeneas and Choroebus; the latter of which two is by Euphorion said to have been a fool, and yet had with the former the same aspects and heavenly genethliac influences.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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