Lampadephoria

[406] A quarter of Athens where the Lampadephoria was held in honour of

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Not to quench the existing light in any human breast -- but to kindle and quicken where no light is: to bring forever new lamp-bearers into the Lampadephoria of life, and marshal them there in their places, on equal terms with the old, neither excluded, nor excluding: this, surely this was the ideal of Modernism.

The Case of Richard Meynell Humphry Ward 1885

In the Lampadephoria of civilisation and free thought let us not forget to render due meed of honour to those who first lit that sacred flame, the increasing splendour of which lights our footsteps to the far-off divine event of the attainment of perfect truth.

Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877

In the Lampadephoria of civilisation and free thought let us not forget to render due meed of honour to those who first lit that sacred flame, the increasing splendour of which lights our footsteps to the far-off divine event of the attainment of perfect truth.

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1877

Letters as follows: "Such is the Lampadephoria, or torch-race, of the nations.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers