arguing, five others added by Agrippa, x. 412 .
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

This did not damage the low flat ships of the Greeks, but it caught the high-sterned Persian ships, over-weighted as they were with lofty decks, and presented their broadsides to the Greeks, who eagerly attacked them, watching Themistokles because he was their best example, and also because Ariamenes, Xerxes's admiral, and the bravest and best of the king's brothers, attacked him in a huge ship, from which, as if from a castle, he poured darts and arrows upon him.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

[Pg 281] to speak of the vanities and lying insanities of the civil theology, where he was not only without the guidance of the truth of things, but was also pressed by the authority of tradition, he says: "I will write in this book concerning the public gods of the Roman people, to whom they have dedicated temples, and whom they have conspicuously distinguished by many adornments; but, as Xenophon of Colophon writes, I will state what I think, not what I am prepared to maintain: it is for man to think those things, for God to know them."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Reports of American Bar Association , XXXI (1907), 444-59.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[277] Quoted by James Bryce, "Influence of National Character and Historical Environment on Development of Common Law," annual address to the American Bar Association, 1907, Reports of the American Bar Association , XXXI (1907), 447.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

During a considerable part of the first trip George was uneasy, but got over it by and by, as X. seemed content to stay in his bed when asleep.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Good men have often ill wives, as bad as Xanthippe was to Socrates, Elevora to St. Lewis, Isabella to our Edward the Second; and good wives are as often matched to ill husbands, as Mariamne to Herod, Serena to Diocletian, Theodora to Theophilus, and Thyra to Gurmunde.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Again, both Acts xv.
— from The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan

Not a taxing machine, but a beneficent agency, XVIII.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

There were innumerable dishes of fish, reminding the Greeks of the viands of their native land, and between mouthfuls they discussed the glauci from Megara, the eels from Scione, and breams and xiphiae from the coasts of Phalerum and from the Hellespont.
— from Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole

Lampsacus attacked by Antiochus, xxxiii.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

84 Morbihan in Brittany, mistletoe hung over the doors of stables and byres at, xi.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer