Callisthenes
Americannoun
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The "Callisthenes" articles caught British fancy at once, have long been profitable for the store.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two months ago Selfridge's "Callisthenes" hopped the sea, made its debut as an advertisement in New York's Herald Tribune.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh let me roll in Macedonian rays, Or, like Callisthenes, be caged for life, Rather than shine in fashions of the East.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
The same Theophrastus is found fault with by all the books and schools of the philosophers, for commending that sentence in his Callisthenes: Fortune, not wisdom, rules the life of man.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke
But Cornelius Nepos denies that either age or sickness impaired his mind, which was rather affected by a potion, given him by Callisthenes his freedman.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
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