Men
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in the texts
Aphorisms
Men considered as a class with temperament-linked susceptibility to disease and generative capacity.
And in like manner with respect to males;
With regard to the seasons, if the winter be of a dry and northerly character, and the spring rainy and southerly, in summer there will necessarily be acute fevers, ophthalmies, and dysenteries, especially in women, and in men of a humid temperament.
Hymn 31 to Helios
Human beings who receive Helios's radiance and poetic knowledge from the Muses.
And now that I have begun with you, I will celebrate the race of mortal men half-divine whose deeds the Muses have showed to mankind.
And now, O Muse Calliope, daughter of Zeus, begin to sing of glowing Helios whom mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one, bare to the Son of Earth and starry Heaven.
Cratylus
Humankind, whose name Socrates derives from the capacity to look up at and consider what has been seen, distinguishing men from other animals.
Socrates.
Socrates.
What do you mean?
Economics
Men as a social group associated with outdoor labor, military readiness, household partnership, and disciplined public usefulness.
and therefore imposed on him the outdoor tasks.
and so you could not distinguish whether the male or the female sex has the larger share of these.
Secondly, offspring to support them in old age is provided by this union, to human beings, at any rate.