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Theopompus calls Satyrus, but Ephorus and Timaeus call Orthagoras, and, after an interval of a few days, again went to his brother.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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When his single admonition was rejected and contemned by him, he makes a second attempt, taking with him Aeschylus his kinsman, brother to the wife of Timophanes, and a certain diviner, that was his friend, whom Theopompus in his history calls Satyrus, but Ephorus and Timaeus mention in theirs by the name of Orthagoras.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The senators the while kept silence, seeing the companions of Satyrus at the bar, and the whole front of the senate house crowded with the foreign guards, nor did they need to be told that there were daggers in reserve among those present.
Hellenica 2007
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Satyrus, bade him “Be silent, or he would rue the day;” to which he made answer, “And if I be silent, shall I not rue it?”
Hellenica 2007
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Satyrus laid hold upon Theramenes to drag him from the altar, and the attendants lent their aid.
Hellenica 2007
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But, said Satyrus, this is not so strange as the common practice of the hunters; for, when they send
Symposiacs 2004
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But, said Satyrus, this is not so strange as the common practice of the hunters; for, when they send
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Another time, when the assembly had refused to hear him, and he was going home with his head muffled up, taking it very heavily, they relate that Satyrus, the actor, followed him, and being his familiar acquaintance, entered into conversation with him.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Which when Demosthenes had pronounced, Satyrus presently taking it up after him gave the same passage, in his rendering of it, such a new form, by accompanying it with the proper mien and gesture, that to Demosthenes it seemed quite another thing.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The soothsayers making two words of Satyrus, assured him, that Tyre should he his own.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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