Aelius Aristides 16, Cyzicus Panegyric (snips) (Aristid.Or.16)
Aelius Aristides, PANEGYRIC IN CYZICUS, 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 34 tagged references to 27 ancient places.CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg016; Wikidata ID: Q87771205; Trismegistos: #N/A [Open Greek text in new tab]
§ 236 All men, I believe, would have sufficient reason for speaking in the present circumstance. ...
§ 237 I think that even the Hyperboreans ...
§ 238 But it can be said that it not only possesses a great sea, ...
§ 239 one would swim to it from the continent. So both the whole island and the city are no less distinguished in their nature than the greatest islands, ...
§ 240 I have come to the tempest itself. How should I say all that I wish? But I should say as much as, ...
§ 241 There are walks which traverse it all about, ...
§ 242 It is these who have exalted the proverb to the highest degree and through the greatest deeds have defined it, ...
§ 243 had been made temperate by the gods, they made them an addition to their empire, ...
§ 244 This conception of theirs also seems to me in keeping with their form of government. ...
§ 245 Some men by adding palisades and walls increase their empires with some small and truly mortal possessions. ...
§ 246 We should be grateful to the gods, but we should congratulate the emperors and join in prayer for them. ...
§ 247 Now you must regard all cities as sisters to one another, ...