Word: dionysius
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...amount he gets done each day is enormous. He's now in the process of writing a book on politics; has about finished "The Realm of Truth", and incidentally is revising a little play: "Philosophers At Court" concerning Plato's visit to Dionysius at Syracuse. At present for relaxation he's reading Latin poetry and touching up a few sonnets. He writes easily but carefully. Manuscripts are set aside for long periods of time; then if necessary undergo severe revision. It is no wonder he's been called the best modern prose stylist. Yet you will recall he didn...
...Some say the flowers are her children and, every time one kneels to kiss her, new flowers come up. But no one really knows. Yet it is quite possible, for there are many different flowers there: Roses, Honeysuckles, Water Lilies; yes, and poison Ivy--perhaps for the tyrant Dionysius--and a catcus plant...
...bastard Greek, which no Athenian could understand today. Then he gave me goat's milk and blessed me; asked me to take his picture, and so I did. Thus endeth my great trip adventure of exploration, a sad failure. But tomorrow I go to Syracuse to whistle in Dionysius' Ear, see Venus Anadyomene, and bask in the memory of Plato, Pindar and Aeschylus...
...have been born later because Herod, who sought to have Him slaughtered along with the rest of the Jewish younglings, died the year following. For centuries after Christ's death no one thought to use Anno Domini as the base of a calendar. When the 6th Century monk Dionysius Exiguus finally did so, he made a miscalculation of four to six years which has not yet been rectified...
...Monte Carlo the sons of the prophet of prosperity feed on the manna provided each chilly dawn at morning prayer. Faith in the ultimate victory of the pulpit in the spiritual contest against chance and fate is swelling the ranks of the believers. Traditional forms of worship--Isis, Dionysius, the Eleusinian mysteries, Mammon himself--are flicked out of consciousness by the true followers, the faithful who abide by the tenets of the spokesman of the divine decree...