 Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form either of man or beast. Nor was there among them formerly any image or statue of the Divine Being. During the first hundred and seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes,...  Plutarch's Lives - Seite 174von Plutarch - 1803Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Plutarchus - 1809 - 584 Seiten
...Minerva, where the" priestess was called llesychia, that is, the ' composed' or ' the silent.' bade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form either of man, or of beast. Nor was there among them, formerly, any image or statue of the Divine Being: During the first... | |
 | John Brown - 1811 - 742 Seiten
...ring, because God was not 1o be comprehended by sense. Nunia forbade the Romans to represent the Doily in the form either of man or beast. Nor was there...statue of the Divine Being ; during the first hundred anil seventy years, they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes ; but placed in them no figure... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1812 - 690 Seiten
...object of sense, nor liable to passion, but invisible, incorruptible, and discernible only by the mind. Thus, Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity...other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 Seiten
...654. 86 87 780. [E.rod xx. 4.] Numa forbad the Romans to repre•wit llie Deity in the form of either man or beast. Nor was there among them formerly any...other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that WE... | |
 | Plutarch - 1821 - 358 Seiten
...object of sense, rior liable to passion, but invisible, incorruptible, and discernible only by the mind. Thus Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity...other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind : persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 502 Seiten
...object of sense, nor liable to passion, but invisible, incorruptible, and discernible only by the mind. Thus Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity...other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 388 Seiten
...'composed' or 'the silent.' forbade the Ramans to represent the Deity in the form cither of man or of beast. Nor was there among them, formerly, any image...Being: during the first hundred and seventy years indeed they built temples, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind ; persuaded,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1828 - 468 Seiten
...object of sense, nor liable to passion, but invisible, incorruptible, and discernible only by the mind. Thus Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form either of man or beast. Nor * The common reading of the text is, oat ruunus * tist. The word mv signifies young; but it should... | |
 | Plutarch - 1831 - 356 Seiten
...object of sense, nor liable to passion, but invisible, incorruptible, and discernible only by the mind. Thus Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity...other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind ; persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that... | |
 | Plutarch - 1832 - 444 Seiten
...object of sense, nor liable to passion, but invisible, incorruptible, and discernible only by the mind. Thus Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity...other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we... | |
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