Agesilaus
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 16 instances of Agesilaus in 11 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Agesilaus in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 10.
Our Attachments Outlive Us the gains he had clearly made against the Corinthians and, conversely, how Agesilaus secured a dubious victory against the Beotians. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 2.
Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death changes in human affairs which the slightest thing can upset.❦ And thus Agesilaus, in front of whom someone had called the king of Persia happy …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 44.
On Pedantry not an acquisition, but a natural possession. One asking to this purpose, Agesilaus, what he thought most proper for boys to learn? “What they ought …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 45.
On Pedantry so much did they value the loss of their country’s education. When Agesilaus courted Xenophon to send his children to Sparta to be bred, “it …
- Book 1 · Chapter 35 · ¶ 8.
On the Custom of Wearing Clothes King Agesilaus continued to a decrepit age to wear always the same clothes in …
- Book 1 · Chapter 45 · ¶ 3.
On the Battle of Dreux In that bloody battle betwixt Agesilaus and the Boeotians, which Xenophon, who was present at it, reports to …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 13.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment by rich accoutrements and armor of a particular lustre and color: Agis, Agesilaus, and that great Gilippus, on the contrary, used to fight obscurely armed, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 24.
Apology for Raymond Sebond world; — “What!” said he, “thou wouldest have me to believe that Agesilaus and Epaminondas, who were so great men, shall be miserable, and that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 401.
Apology for Raymond Sebond miracles. The Thracians, in return of the benefits they had received from Agesilaus, came to bring him word that they had canonized him: “Has your …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 14.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch introduces of “things incredible and wholly fabulous,” delivered by Plutarch, is, that “Agesilaus was fined by the Ephori for having wholly engrossed the hearts and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 15.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch Cicero, Cato and Aristides, Sylla and Lysander, Marcellus and Pelopidas, Pompey and Agesilaus, holding that he has favored the Greeks in giving them so unequal …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 17.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch of the armies conducted by Pompey, and his triumphs, with those of Agesilaus? “I do not believe,” says he, “that Xenophon himself, if he were …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 17.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch he were allowed to write whatever pleased him to the advantage of Agesilaus, would dare to bring them into comparison.” Does he speak of paralleling …
- Book 3 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 12.
On Repentance so that everybody may see into every room.” ’Tis honorably recorded of Agesilaus, that he used in his journeys always to take up his lodgings …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 265.
On Some Verses of Virgil not wherewithal to withstand its assaults and disprove practically the saying of Agesilaus, that prudence and love cannot live together. ’Tis a vain employment, ’tis …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 205.
On Vanity and places. Imagine this in Xenophon, related as a fine commendation of Agesilaus: that, being entreated by a neighboring prince with whom he had formerly …