A prayer of the Athenians: Rain, rain, O dear Zeus, down on the ploughed fields of the Athenians and on the plains.- In truth we ought not to pray at all, or we ought to pray in this simple and noble fashion.
One man, when he has done a service to another, is ready to set it down to his account as a favour conferred. Another is…
Just as we must understand when it is said, That Aesculapius prescribed to this man horse-exercise, or bathing in cold w…