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  • Zenothemis, when the latter interrupted him: "Menecrates," he said,

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • Cecalus, Menecrates the son of Amphidorus; of Epidaurus, Amphias the son of Eupaidas; and on behalf of Athens, Nicostratus the son of Diitrephes, Nicias the son of Niceratus, Autocles the son of

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • At this Menecrates the Thessalian surprised cried out, Good God, what things we skip over!

    Symposiacs 2004

  • At this Menecrates the Thessalian surprised cried out, Good God, what things we skip over!

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Menecrates, the physician, having had great success in some desperate diseases, was by way of flattery called

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Sextus Pompeius was in possession of Sicily, and with his ships, under the command of Menas, the pirate, and Menecrates, so infested the Italian coast, that no vessels durst venture into those seas.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • It appears from the account which he gives, that upwards of fifty Greek authors had treated of this subject in prose, besides Hesiod and Menecrates the Ephesian, who both wrote in verse; exclusive likewise of many Roman writers, and of Mago the

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • It appears from the account which he gives, that upwards of fifty Greek authors had treated of this subject in prose, besides Hesiod and Menecrates the Ephesian, who both wrote in verse; exclusive likewise of many Roman writers, and of Mago the

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • He likewise bestowed upon Menecrates the harper, and

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Being weary at length, he sate down, and provok'd by the noisiness of the bath, set up his drunken throat, and fell a murdering some songs of Menecrates, as they that understood him told us.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

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