Essays and Lectures. Wilde Oscar

among the rivers of the plain, as a proof that it was not built till long after the Deluge.

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      Plutarch remarks that the only evidence Greece possesses of the truth that the legendary power of Athens is no ‘romance or idle story,’ is the public and sacred buildings. This is an instance of the exaggerated importance given to ruins against which Thucydides is warning us.

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      The fictitious sale in the Roman marriage per coemptionem was originally, of course, a real sale.

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      Notably, of course, in the case of heat a

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Plato’s Laws; Æschylus’ Prometheus Bound.

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Somewhat in the same spirit Plato, in his Laws, appeals to the local position of Ilion among the rivers of the plain, as a proof that it was not built till long after the Deluge.

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Plutarch remarks that the only evidence Greece possesses of the truth that the legendary power of Athens is no ‘romance or idle story,’ is the public and sacred buildings. This is an instance of the exaggerated importance given to ruins against which Thucydides is warning us.

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The fictitious sale in the Roman marriage per coemptionem was originally, of course, a real sale.

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Notably, of course, in the case of heat and its laws.