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Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman statesman; Diodorus Siculus, the Greek historian; and others have praised the city for its opulent lifestyle and magnificent buildings.
Malta's Sun-Kissed 'Silent City' Javier Espinoza 2010
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The amount of literary and archaeological evidence attests to the belief in the evil eye in the eastern Mediterranean for more than a millennium starting with Hesiod, Callimachus, Plato, Diodorus Siculus, Theocritus, Plutarch, Heliodorus, Pliny the Elder, and Aulus Gellius.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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Diodorus Siculus: "The women of the Gauls are not only like men in their great stature, but they are a match for them in courage as well."
"Courage is not solely for men, but it is mainly for men." Ann Althouse 2009
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The amount of literary and archaeological evidence attests to the belief in the evil eye in the eastern Mediterranean for more than a millennium starting with Hesiod, Callimachus, Plato, Diodorus Siculus, Theocritus, Plutarch, Heliodorus, Pliny the Elder, and Aulus Gellius.
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(Lib. xv.), by Pliny (ix. 10) and Diodorus Siculus (iv. 1) who had heard of a tribe of Chelonophagi.
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To do so would demand a discussion of non-Herodotean sources (most importantly Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus), and we aren't given that either.
The Great Marathon Man Green, Peter 2008
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(Diodorus Siculus X 11.2) and Epaminondas 'use of the name father for Lysis suggests a cult association (Burkert 1972a, 179).
Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006
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It consists of malefactors, who are banished hither for a term, for divers small offenses — a policy which they may have copied from the Egyptians, as we may read in Diodorus Siculus.
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Next in importance among ancient authors comes Diodorus Siculus, whose account of Artemisium and Salamis can be read in English translation in C. H. Oldfather, trans., Diodorus of Sicily, vol.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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Next in importance among ancient authors comes Diodorus Siculus, whose account of Artemisium and Salamis can be read in English translation in C. H. Oldfather, trans., Diodorus of Sicily, vol.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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