Sublime

esse divino, que não tem nada de um Deus pessoal, mas se confunde com a ordem do mundo, que os estoicos nos convidam a contemplar (theorein) com a ajuda de todos os meios apropriados

The municipal organization once discovered, it was not necessary for each new city to pass over the same long and difficult route. It might often happen that they followed the inverse order. When a chief, quitting a city already organized, went to found another, he took with him commonly only a small number of his fellow-citizens. He associated wit

We shall see, further along, that the stranger domiciled in a city could be neither a proprietor there, nor an heir, nor a testator; he could not make a contract of any sort, or appear before the ordinary tribunals of the citizens. At Athens, if he happened to be the creditor of a citizen, he could not sue him in the courts for the payment of the d

A century later, royalty was still farther weakened; the executive power was taken away and was intrusted to annual magistrates, who were called ephors.

He ranked truth above custom, and justice above the law.

Riches have become the only object of men's desires, because wealth gives power. The man of noble race marries the daughter of the rich plebeian, and “marriage confounds the races.”

Everywhere these tyrants, with more or less violence, had the same policy. A tyrant of Corinth one day asked advice concerning government of a tyrant of Miletus. The latter, in reply, struck off the heads of grain that were higher than the others. Thus their rule of conduct was to cut down the high heads, and to strike at the aristocracy, while dep

Through them the family was sole master in this field. The tomb had established an indissoluble union of the family with the land — that of ownership.