Bede, or Beda, the author, called “Venerable,” xxi , xxxiv ; account of his life, xxxiii-xliii ; his family, xxxiii ; born near Wearmouth, xxxiii , xxxiv , 386 ; his instructors, xxxiii , xxxiv , 222 , 257 n., 386 ; his ordination, xxxiii , 273 n., 386 ; his life spent in the Monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, xxxiii , xxxiv , 137 n., 386 ; dates of his birth and death, xxxiv ; his autobiography, xxxiv , 386-389 ; his diligence, xxxiv ; his eyes dim in age, xxxiv ; his death, xix , xxxiv , xxxix-xliii , 391 ; his epitaph, xxxiv ; his learning, xxxiv , xxxv , xxxvi ; his style, xxxvi ; visits Lindisfarne, xxxvi ; visits York, xxxvi ; Egbert his pupil, xxxvi ; his “Epistola ad Ecgbertum,” xxxvi , 273 n., 342 n.; his influence, xxxvi ; his last illness, xxxvi , xxxix , xl , xlii , xliii ; his “Life of Cuthbert” in prose and verse, xxxvi , 4 n., 260 n., 285 n., 287 n., [pg 400] 288 n., 291 , 309 ; story of his visit to Rome, xxxvi ; story of his residence at Cambridge, xxxvi ; his writings, xxxvii , 311 n.; list of his literary works and compilations, 386-389 ; his studies, xxxvii , 386-389 ; his duties, xxxvii ; his character, xxxvii , xxxviii , xxxix ; his zeal for Catholic usages, xxxviii , xxxix ; his admiration for Aidan, xxxix ; dictates to Wilbert his translation of St. John and St. Isidore, xlii , xliii ; buried at Jarrow, xl ; his relics stolen by Elfred and carried to Durham, xl ; translated with those of St. Cuthbert to the new Cathedral, xl ; a shrine erected to him by Hugh de Puisac, xl ; his chronology corrected, 9 , 11 , 12 , 13 n., 20 n., 22 n., 23 n., 27 n., 28 n., 29 n., 42 n., 63 n., 68 n., 75 n., 94 n., 241 n., 254 n., 287 n., 314 n.; his “Martyrology,” editorial references to, 27 n., 99 n., 265 n.; his friendship for Acca, 161 n.; his “De Temporibus,” 170 ; his “De temporum Ratione,” 170 , 227 n.; his “History of the Abbots,” 213 n., 215 n., 257 n., 287 n.; uses the Caesarean system of Indictions, 227 n.; his “De Locis Santis,” 337 n., 338 n.; said to have written Ceolfrid's Letter to Naiton, 360 n.; his “Expositio in Marci Evangelium,” 364 n.; his “Ecclesiastical History,” see Ecclesiastical . — from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint
—writing 346 B.C., a year after the death of Plato, and probably not more than three or four years after the composition of the Laws—who speaks of the Laws and Republics written by philosophers (upo ton sophiston); (3) by the reference (Athen.) of the comic poet Alexis, a younger contemporary of Plato (fl. B.C 356-306), to the enactment about prices, which occurs in Laws xi., viz that the same goods should not be offered at two prices on the same day (Ou gegone kreitton nomothetes tou plousiou Aristonikou tithesi gar nuni nomon, ton ichthuopolon ostis an polon tini ichthun upotimesas apodot elattonos es eipe times, eis to desmoterion euthus apagesthai touton, ina dedoikotes tes axias agaposin, e tes esperas saprous apantas apopherosin oikade. — from Laws by Plato
Lib. xx, v. 7. 36 : Harmony was the wife of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes; Socrates, therefore, compares his two Theban friends, Simmias and Cebes, with them, and says that, having overcome Simmias, the advocate of Harmony, he must now deal with Cebes, who is represented by Cadmus. — from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato
Schlosser ( Hist. of the Eighteenth Century , vol. i. p. 138) notices ‘the entirely new system of absolute democracy which was brought forward by J. J. Rousseau;’ see also p. 289, and Soulavie , Règne de Louis XVI , vol. — from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle
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Julius Caesar has already been handled by one of them, and with poor success, for Louis XIV., at the age of sixteen, produced a translation of the first book of the Commentaries of Caesar, under the title Guerre des Suisses, traduite dupremier livre des Commentaires de Jules César, par Louis XI V., Dieu-Donné, roi de France et de Navarre . — from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865
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