Thraso

[6024] Phaedria could not abide his co-rival Thraso; for when Parmeno demanded, numquid aliud imperas? whether he would command him any more service: No more (saith he) but to speak in his behalf, and to drive away his co-rival if he could.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Hercules served Omphale, put on an apron, took a distaff and spun; Thraso the soldier was so submissive to

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And then -- to bite a piece off an apple, and when you saw that Duphilus was busy talking to Thraso, to lean forward and throw it right into her lap, without caring whether I saw it or not; and she kissed it and put it into her bosom under her girdle!

Satyricon 2007

This doth the Comaedie handle so in our private and domesticall matters, as with hearing it, wee get as it were an experience what is to be looked for of a niggardly Demea, of a crafty Davus, of a flattering Gnato, of a vain-glorious Thraso {84} and not onely to know what effects are to be expected, but to know who be such, by the signifying badge given them by the Comaedient.

Defence of Poesie 1992

But rather a busie loving Courtier, and a hartelesse thretning Thraso {167}, a selfe-wise seeming Schoolemaister, a wry transformed Traveller: these if we saw walke in Stage names, which we plaie naturally, therein were delightfull laughter, and teaching delightfulnesse; as in the other the Tragedies of Buchanan {168} do justly bring foorth a divine admiration.

Defence of Poesie 1992

Thus we expresse Thraso a boaster, and Demea a sowre felowe.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

As the guide pointed out the dens for the wild beasts -- the passages through which they came -- and the arena for the combat -- Sir Henry, like most British travellers, recalled the inimitable story of Thraso, and his lion fight.

A Love Story A Bushman

Quam quod ridiculos homines facit: _ but rather a busy-loving courtier; a heartless threatening Thraso; a self-wise-seeming schoolmaster; an awry-transformed traveller?

English literary criticism Various

_Thraso_, not so much as understanding the Terms of our Common Law, knew not what to answer to it, and so became ridiculous to the whole

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Thraso, and Phedria Thais, that Gorgious harlot, Antony and Iulius Cesar, Cleopatra, this is a bondage, to liue slaue from reason and all all integritee, to a monsterous rableme [n] t

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde