torch-race

A torch-race, of sorts, with batons passed in all directions, from the collector to the student, the casual reader to the obsessive.

June 2008 2008

A torch-race, of sorts, with batons passed in all directions, from the collector to the student, the casual reader to the obsessive.

Gently Used 2008

The Republic opens with a truly Greek scene — a festival in honour of the goddess Bendis which is held in the Piraeus; to this is added the promise of an equestrian torch-race in the evening.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Adeimantus added: Has no one told you of the torch-race on horseback in honor of the goddess which will take place in the evening?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

The manner in which the conversation has arisen is described as follows: — Socrates and his companion Glaucon are about to leave the festival when they are detained by a message from Polemarchus, who speedily appears accompanied by Adeimantus, the brother of Glaucon, and with playful violence compels them to remain, promising them not only the torch-race, but the pleasure of conversation with the young, which to Socrates is a far greater attraction.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Of the numerous company, three only take any serious part in the discussion; nor are we informed whether in the evening they went to the torch-race, or talked, as in the

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

The first then rides and delivers the message with which he is charged to the second, and the second to the third; and after that it goes through them handed from one to the other,1295 as in the torch-race among the Hellenes, which they perform for Hephaistos.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Athenians, when their affairs had been now prosperously settled, established under the Acropolis a temple of Pan; and in consequence of this message they propitiate him with sacrifice offered every year and with a torch-race.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Pisistratus, it is stated, was similarly attached to one Charmus; he it was who dedicated the figure of Love in the Academy, where the runners in the sacred torch-race light their torches.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Motions that are not the same either specifically or generically may, it is true, be consecutive (e.g. a man may run and then at once fall ill of a fever), and again, in the torch-race we have consecutive but not continuous locomotion: for according to our definition there can be continuity only when the ends of the two things are one.

Physics Aristotle 2002