#lycurgus — Public Fediverse posts
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𝗩𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲 𝘇𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗽 𝗟𝘆𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗴𝘂𝘀
De volleyballers van Orion Stars zijn voor het derde jaar op rij landskampioen geworden. Zondag was de ploeg in het eigen Doetinchem met 3-0 te sterk voor Lycurgus uit Groningen. Daarmee is Orion Stars op 3-0 gekomen in de best-of-fiveserie en is het kampioenschap beslist.
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 24/
But for his own part, he sacrificed again to the god, took affectionate leave of his friends and of his son, and resolved never to release his fellow-citizens from their oath, but of his own accord to put an end to his life where he was. He had reached an age in which life was not yet a burden, and death no longer a terror.
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On reaching the oracle, he sacrificed to the god, and asked if the laws which he had established were good, and sufficient to promote a city's prosperity and virtue. Apollo answered that the laws which he had established were good, and that the city would continue to be held in highest honour while it kept to the polity of Lycurgus.
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When his principal institutions were at last firmly fixed in the customs of the people, and his civil polity had sufficient growth and strength to support and preserve itself, Lycurgus was filled with joyful satisfaction in the magnitude and beauty of his system of laws, now that it was in operation and moving along its pathway.
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Paedaretus, when he failed to be chosen among the three hundred best men, went away with a very glad countenance, as if rejoicing that the city had three hundred better men than himself.
Polycratidas, one of an embassy to the generals of the Persian king, on being asked by them whether the embassy was there in a private or a public capacity, replied: "If we succeed, in a public capacity; if we fail, in a private."
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 20/
And law-suits, of course, vanished from among them with their gold and silver coinage, for they knew neither greed nor want, but equality in well-being was established there, and easy living based on simple wants. Choral dances and feasts and festivals and hunting and bodily exercise and social converse occupied their whole time, when they were not on a military expedition.
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For one of the noble and blessed privileges which Lycurgus provided for his fellow-citizens, was abundance of leisure, since he forbade their engaging in any mechanical art whatsoever, and as for money-making, with its laborious efforts to amass wealth, there was no need of it at all, since wealth awakened no envy and brought no honour.
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When they had conquered an enemy, they pursued him far enough to make their victory secure and then at once retired, thinking it ignoble and unworthy to hew men to pieces who had given up the fight. And this was not only a noble and magnanimous policy, but it was also useful. For their antagonists, knowing that they slew those who resisted them, but showed mercy to those who yielded to them, were apt to think flight more advantageous than resistance.
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 17/
It was a sight equally grand and terrifying when they marched in step with the rhythm of the flute, with no confusion in their souls, but calmly and cheerfully moving with the strains of their hymn into the deadly fight. Neither fear nor excessive fury is likely to possess men so disposed, but rather a firm purpose full of hope and courage, believing as they do that Heaven is their ally.
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 16/
Their bodily exercises, too, were less rigorous during their campaigns, and their young warriors were allowed a regimen which was less curtailed and rigid, so that they were the only men in the world with whom war brought a respite in the training for war.
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 15/
In time of war they relaxed the severity of the young men's discipline, and permitted them to beautify their hair and ornament their arms and clothes, rejoicing to see them, like horses, prance and neigh for the contest.
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And even from their jests it is possible to judge of their character. For it was their wont never to talk at random, and to let slip no speech which did not have some thought or other worth serious attention.
For instance, when one of them was invited to hear a man imitate the nightingale, he said: "I have heard the bird herself."
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 13/
And Pleistoanax, the son of Pausanias, when an Athenian orator declared that the Lacedaemonians had no learning, said: "True, we are indeed the only Hellenes who have learned no evil from you."
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 12/
Demaratus, when a troublesome fellow was pestering him with ill-timed questions, and especially with the oft repeated query who was the best of the Spartans, answered at last: "He who is least like thee."
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 11/
Charilaüs, the nephew of Lycurgus, when asked why his uncle had made so few laws, answered: "Men of few words need few laws."
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When they asked how they could ward off an invasion of enemies, he answered: "By remaining poor, and by not desiring to be greater the one than the other."
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 9/
The boys were also taught to use a discourse which combined pungency with grace, and condensed much observation into a few words.
His iron money, indeed, Lycurgus made of large weight and small value, but the current coin of discourse he adapted to the expression of deep and abundant meaning with simple and brief diction, by contriving that the general habit of silence should make the boys sententious and correct in their answers.
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 8/
Determined to banish insolence and envy and crime and luxury, he persuaded his fellow-citizens to make one parcel of all their territory and divide it up anew, and to live with one another on a basis of uniformity and equality in the means of subsistence, seeking preëminence through virtue alone, assured that there was no other difference or inequality between man and man than that which was established by blame for base actions and praise for good ones.
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 7/
When the multitude was thus assembled, no one of them was permitted to make a motion, but the motion laid before them by the senators and kings could be accepted or rejected by the people.
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They held their assemblies, having neither halls nor any other kind of building for the purpose. For by such things Lycurgus thought good counsel was not promoted, but rather discouraged, since the serious purposes of an assembly were rendered foolish and futile by vain thoughts, as they gazed upon statues and paintings, or scenic embellishments, or extravagantly decorated roofs of council halls.
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 5/
By making the power of the senate a sort of ballast for the ship of state and putting her on a steady keel, it achieved the safest and the most orderly arrangement, since the twenty-eight senators always took the side of the kings when it was a question of curbing [disorder], and, on the other hand, always strengthened the people to withstand the encroachments of tyranny.
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 4/
He tried to bring the chief men of Sparta over to his side, and exhorted them to put their hands to the work with him, explaining his designs secretly to his friends at first, then little by little engaging more and uniting them to attempt the task.
And when the time for action came, he ordered thirty of the chief men to go armed into the market-place at break of day, to strike consternation and terror into those of the opposite party.
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The Lacedaemonians missed Lycurgus sorely, and sent for him many times. They felt that their kings were such in name and station merely, but in everything else were nothing better than their subjects, while in him there was a nature fitted to lead, and a power to make men follow him.
However, not even the kings were averse to having him at home, but hoped that in his presence their subjects would treat them with less insolence.
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Lycurgus 2/
Lycurgus sailed to Asia, with the desire of comparing with the Cretan civilization, which was simple and severe, that of the Ionians, which was extravagant and luxurious, just as a physician compares with healthy bodies those which are unsound and sickly.
He could then study the difference in their modes of life and forms of government.
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Thales's odes were so many exhortations to obedience and harmony, and their measured rhythms were permeated with ordered tranquillity, so that those who listened to them were insensibly softened in their dispositions, insomuch that they renounced their mutual hatreds and dwelt together in a common pursuit of what was high and noble.
Thales therefore was a forerunner in Sparta of Lycurgus and his discipline.
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@readbeanicecream WOW! Considering that the Romans knew how to make concrete that was impervious to seawater, I'd say it wasn't an accident...!
"Anything related to nanotechnology feels fairly modern, doesn’t it? Although Richard Feynman planted the seeds of the idea in 1959, the word itself didn’t really get formed until the 70s or 80s, depending on who you ask. But there is evidence that #nanotechnology could have existed as far back as the 4th century in #AncientRome.
"That evidence lies in this, the #Lycurgus cup. It’s an example of dichroic glass — that is, glass that takes on a different color depending on the light source. In this case, the opaque green of front lighting gives way to glowing red when light is shining through it. The mythology that explains the scene varies a bit, but the main character is King Lycurgus, king of Edoni in Thrace.
"So how does it work? The glass contains extremely small quantities of colloidal gold and silver — nanoparticles of gold to produce the red, and silver particles to make the milky green. The composition of the Lycurgus cup was puzzling until the 1990s, when small pieces of the same type of glass were discovered in ancient Roman ruins and analyzed. The particles in the Lycurgus cup are thought to be the size of one thousandth of a grain of table salt — substantial enough to reflect light without blocking it.
"The question is, how much did the Romans know about what they were doing? Did they really have the means to grind these particles into dust and purposely infuse them, or could this dichroic glass have been produced purely by accident?"
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Nanotechnology in Ancient Rome? There Is Evidence - Anything related to nanotechnology feels fairly modern, doesn’t it? Although Richa... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/26/nanotechnology-in-ancient-rome-there-is-evidence/ #chemistryhacks #nanotechnology #dichroicglass #nanoparticles #lycurguscup #dichroic #lycurgus #cagecup #silver #gold