Menippus

"Æsop", and the "Menippus" of the Prado, the most beautiful example of this class of Spanish mendicancy akin to the "Drunkards" of thirty years earlier.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

Hippocles the son of Menippus, which were on the watch for ships coming from Sicily; but all except one of them escaped the

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

I did sometime laugh and scoff with Lucian, and satirically tax with Menippus, lament with Heraclitus, sometimes again I was

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Menippus to Tantalus, Tantale desipis, helleboro epoto tibi opus est, eoque sane meraco, thou art out of thy little wit, O Tantalus, and must needs drink hellebore, and that without mixture.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Let Lucian's Menippus consult with or ask of Tiresias, if you will not believe philosophers, he shall clear all your doubts when he makes a second voyage.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

It was Tiresias the prophet's council to [3540] Menippus, that travelled all the world over, even down to hell itself to seek content, and his last farewell to Menippus, to be merry.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

I should here except some Cynics, Menippus, Diogenes, that Theban Crates; or to descend to these times, that omniscious, only wise fraternity

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

That scoffing [6476] Lucian conducts his Menippus to hell by the directions of that Chaldean Mithrobarzanes, but after long fasting, and such like idle preparation.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Athenian vessels under Hippocles, son of Menippus, on the lookout for the ships from Sicily.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Um Keis was Gadara, very precious with its memories of Menippus and of Meleager, the immoral Greek-Syrian whose self-expression marked the highest point of Syrian letters.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003