Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Zeus and the gods

    deity figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages

    gods · some god · Heaven · Zeus · heaven · the gods

    in the texts

    Against CalliclesClassical · Greek

    Divine powers invoked by the speaker in oaths, pleas, and rhetorical exclamations.

    but give close heed, men of Athens, I beg you in the name of Zeus and the gods!
    against callicles
    Do not, then, men of the jury, I beg you in the name of Zeus and the gods, leave me as the prey of these men, when I have done no wrong.
    against callicles
    But if, once I have got the water on my property, I am not to be allowed to drain it off either into the road or onto private land, men of the jury, what course in the name of the gods remains for me?
    against callicles

    On the ChersoneseClassical · Greek

    Divine powers invoked in oaths, prayers, and emphatic appeals.

    For if you have the guarantee of some god, since no mere mortal could be a satisfactory surety for such an event that if you remain inactive and abandon everything, Philip will not in the end march against yourselves, by Zeus and all the other gods, it would be disgraceful and unworthy of you and of the resources of your city and the record of your ancestors to abandon all the other Greeks to ensl …
    on the chersonese
    And what Philip would pray the gods to vouchsafe him, are some of us here trying to compass?
    on the chersonese
    but for a slave necessity means stripes and bodily outrage, unfit to name here, from which Heaven defend us!
    on the chersonese

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    A divine agent or the gods invoked as witnesses to Athens' decision.

    So to you has now been offered by some god an opportunity, in case you aid the Lacedaemonians in their need, of acquiring them for all time as friends who will plead no excuses.
    book 6