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  • I be forbidden to learn the fair words of Zalmoxis or the priestly lore. of Zoroaster?

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • I be forbidden to learn the fair words of Zalmoxis or the priestly lore. of Zoroaster?

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Plato — if I may quote him again — in another passage dealing with a certain Zalmoxis, a Thracian and also a master of this art has written that magical charms are merely beautiful words.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Plato — if I may quote him again — in another passage dealing with a certain Zalmoxis, a Thracian and also a master of this art has written that magical charms are merely beautiful words.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • The skeptical tradition represented in Herodotus 'report treats this as a ruse on Zalmoxis' part; he had not journeyed to the next world but had in reality hidden in an underground dwelling for three years.

    Pythagoras Huffman, Carl 2006

  • Plato -- if I may quote him again -- in another passage dealing with a certain Zalmoxis, a Thracian and also a master of this art, has written that 'magical charms are merely beautiful words'.

    The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

  • If that is so, why should I be forbidden to learn the fair words of Zalmoxis or the priestly lore of Zoroaster?

    The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

  • Such was the case, they say, with Zalmoxis in Scythia, the slave of Pythagoras; and with

    A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

  • Scythian Zalmoxis between two planets -- Artimpasa, Venus; and Orsiloche, the Moon.

    Tentation de saint Antoine. English Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • r ferves, that the name of Zalmoxis was given him, becaufe as foon as he was born he was covered with the & in of that animal.

    The Monthly Review 1791

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