Aelius Aristides 3, Isthmian Oration (snips) (Aristid.Or.3)
Aelius Aristides, Isthmian Oration, from P. Aelius Aristides: The Complete Works, translated by Charles A. Behr, (Leiden: Brill 1981), a work still in copyright, quoted in index snippets only, with minor corrections. Greek text of William Dindorf (1829), a work in the public domain placed online by the Perseus Project (reused by el.wikisource.org) under a Creative Commons license. Behr snippets aligned with the Jebb page numbers by Brady Kiesling. This text has 24 tagged references to 23 ancient places.CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg003; Wikidata ID: Q87771188; Trismegistos: #N/A [Open Greek text in new tab]
§ 18 more ancient, and in a fashion the usual kind of payment and that which now is about to take place. ...
§ 19 and finally just as it is attested that everything which shares in generation comes from here and at its destruction returns again to there and that this is the meaning of Homer ...
§ 20 or the other continent, or the land directly opposite him. ...
§ 21 And some he even caused to appear from the sea, ...
§ 22 But when you have passed the Propontis ...
§ 23 and this is the reason why the land even from earliest times was praised as “rich” by the poets, ...
§ 24 as the goddesses are said once to have done among themselves, ...
§ 25 which are still even now remembered, are they not more glorious than those of any Greek city, ...
§ 26 But Ino neither existed nor did she ever become what most men say she became. ...
§ 27 and most important of all if they can grant the lot of immortality and that one would immediately be born with this, ...
§ 28 For these sights are the sweetest of sights to see and hear. ...