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D.L. 6.15-16 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
A Treatise on Expression, or Styles of Speaking. Ajax, or The Speecli of Ajax. Odysseus, or Concerning Odysseus. A Defence of Orestes, or Concerning Forensic Writers. Isography (similar writing), or Lysias and Isocrates. A Reply to the Speech of Isocrates entitled " Without Witnesses." Vol. 2 includes : Of the Nature of Animals. Of Procreation of Children, or Of Marriage : a discourse on love. Of the Sophists : a work on Physiognomy. On Justice and Courage : a hortative work in three books. Concerning Theognis, making a fourth and a fifth book. In the third volume are treatises : Of the Good. Of Courage. Of Law, or Of a Commonwealth. Of Law, or Of Goodness and Justice. Of Freedom and Slavery. Of Belief. Of the Guardian, or On Obedience. Of Victory : an economic work. In the fourth volume are included : Cyrus. The Greater Heracles, or Of Strength. The fifth contains : Cyrus, or Of Sovereignty. Aspasia.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius — translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
Apparatus shelf — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. II (R. D. Hicks translation, Loeb L185) · R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, MCMXXV (1925)
license: public-domain (US: published 1925, pre-1930 — the MCMXXV title page verified from the scan itself; only the English rectos are served, Hicks's translation)