Protogenes

Protogenes, which equalled the reality of nature herself; but when

Satyricon 2007

Protogenes making a pause, Ammonius, speaking to me, said: What! have you, being a Boeotian, nothing to say for Cadmus, who (as the story goes) placed Alpha the first in order, because a cow is called Alpha by the Phoenicians, and they account it not the second or third (as Hesiod doth) but the first of their necessary things?

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Protogenes the grammarian a reason why Alpha was the first letter of the alphabet.

Symposiacs 2004

Nicias having done, Protogenes the grammarian subjoined, that

Symposiacs 2004

When Sospis had done, Protogenes the grammarian, calling

Symposiacs 2004

When Sospis had done, Protogenes the grammarian, calling

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Then Protogenes stood up and called me by name: What is the matter with us that we allow these rhetoricians to he so conceited, and to laugh down others while they are asked nothing, and contribute nothing in the way of argument, — unless they swear that they have no part in the wine as admirers and disciples of Demosthenes, a man who in his whole life never drank wine.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Nicias having done, Protogenes the grammarian subjoined, that

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Protogenes the grammarian a reason why Alpha was the first letter of the alphabet.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Protogenes making a pause, Ammonius, speaking to me, said: What! have you, being a Boeotian, nothing to say for Cadmus, who (as the story goes) placed Alpha the first in order, because a cow is called Alpha by the Phoenicians, and they account it not the second or third (as Hesiod doth) but the first of their necessary things?

Symposiacs 2004