Athens
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 22 instances of Athens in 13 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Athens in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 17.
Our Attachments Outlive Us and fair, when I remember the inhuman injustice of the people of Athens who put to death, with no remission or will to hear their …
- Book 1 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 12.
A Record of Some Ambassadors to fetch the tallest of two ship masts he had seen in Athens in order to turn it into a kind of battering ram. The …
- Book 1 · Chapter 23 · ¶ 18.
Various Events Sharing the Same Premise against them, but they have present notice of it. The Duke of Athens did a great many foolish things in the establishment of his new …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 45.
On Pedantry musicians; but to Lacedaemon for legislators, magistrates, and generals of armies; at Athens they learned to speak well: here to do well; there to disengage …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 46.
On the Education of Children Socrates of what country he was, he did not make answer, of Athens, but of the world; he whose imagination was fuller and wider, embraced …
- Book 1 · Chapter 51 · ¶ 4.
On the Vanity of Words been all-powerful and able to give the law, as in those of Athens, Rhodes, and Rome, and where the public affairs have been in a …
- Book 1 · Chapter 55 · ¶ 10.
On Smells and armies. We read of Socrates, that though he never departed from Athens during the frequent plagues that infested the city, he only was never …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 160.
Apology for Raymond Sebond person of his master. Another dog being to guard a temple at Athens, having spied a sacrilegious thief carrying away the finest jewels, fell to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 160.
Apology for Raymond Sebond city of Cromyon, and the thief also, whom they brought back to Athens, where he got his reward; and the judges, in consideration of this …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 325.
Apology for Raymond Sebond And of all the religions that St. Paul found in repute at Athens, that which they had dedicated “to the unknown God” seemed to him …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 412.
Apology for Raymond Sebond for the common father of his race, it was certainly believed at Athens, that Aristo, having a mind to enjoy the fair Perictione, could not, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 591.
Apology for Raymond Sebond records in writing of eight thousand years; and that the city of Athens was built a thousand years before the said city of Sais; Epicurus, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 595.
Apology for Raymond Sebond also,❦ says Vegetius; and that the goddess who founded the city of Athens chose to situate it in a temperature of air fit to make …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 595.
Apology for Raymond Sebond air fit to make men prudent, as the Egyptian priests told Solon, Athenis tenue cælum, ex quo etiam acutiores putantur Attici; crassum Thebis itaque pingues …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 16.
On Presumption time of the advantage, that by favor and injustice he obtained at Athens over the tragic poets, better than himself, having caused his own play …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 89.
On Presumption was to keep wine in the vat. They conjectured of old at Athens, an aptitude for the mathematics in him they saw ingeniously bavin up …
- Book 2 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 29.
Cowardice, Mother of Cruelty protestation, promised her to steal them away, and to transport them to Athens, and there commit them to the custody of some faithful friends of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 71.
On Some Verses of Virgil contrary in themselves. Socrates was wont to say, that the city of Athens pleased, as ladies do whom men court for love; every one loved …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 147.
On Vanity me all his estate, which I have transported into this city of Athens, and here settled myself to the study of philosophy. Let the historians …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 199.
On Vanity a government, he does not mean a corrupt one like that of Athens, and much less such a one as this of ours, wherein wisdom …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 132.
On Experience three hours before ’tis brought in. ’Tis said, that Cranaus, king of Athens, was the inventor of this custom of dashing wine with water; whether …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 150.
On Experience when fallen from his horse; and who, among all the people of Athens, enraged as he was at so unworthy a spectacle, first presented himself …