Strength
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
mightiest of men · strength
in the texts
Hymn 15 To Heracles
Exceptional bodily or heroic might attributed to Heracles.
I will sing of Heracles, the son of Zeus and much the mightiest of men on earth.
Nicocles or the Cyprians
A bodily power used to illustrate that good capacities should not be blamed for bad users.
nay, we are inferior to many in swiftness and in strength and in other resources;
I am astonished that those who hold the view to which I have just referred do not rail also against wealth and strength and courage;
Nevertheless, it is not fair to decry strength because there are persons who assault people whom they encounter, nor to traduce courage because there are those who slay men wantonly, nor in general to transfer to things the depravity of men, but rather to put the blame on the men themselves who misuse the good things, and who, by the very powers which might help their fellow-countrymen, endeavor to do them harm.