Curtius : Marcus Curtius. In 362 BC a deep chasm opened in the Roman Forum. The seers declared that the pit would never close until Rome’s most valuable possession was thrown into it. Claiming that nothing was more precious than a brave citizen, Curtius, armed & on horseback, had leaped into the chasm which immediately closed.
... aptness of the double sense will at once be seen if we remember Diodorus and Curtius. The father of Xandrames or Agrammes was really the nailed protector of nails, for he clove his way through everything to the supreme authority while doing his barber's job. In his relation to the sons of his sovereign he is spoken of by Curtius as setting up the "pretence of acting as guardian to the royal children"... of his origin. Sandrocottus himself afterwards became a king, one more powerful than even Xandrames. Such in general is the picture with which we are presehted by the reports of Diodorus, Curtius and Plutarch taken together. Modern historians have identified Sandrocottus with Chandragupta Maurya and Xandrames with the last member of the dynasty of nine Nandas, which preceded Chandragupta... hoard of wealth. He may have had no name except "Dhana". H.C. Raychaudhuri, 1 perhaps realizing the arbitrariness of Thomas's idea, attempts a more direct-looking solution. Reminding us that Curtius, unlike Diodorus, speaks of Agramm'es and not Xandrames, he has submitted that the Sanskrit patronymic "Au-grasainya", derivable from "Ugrasena" and meaning "Son of Ugrasena", is the Indian original ...
... at Taxila, his whole first statement crams together in quick and uninterrupted sequences many occurrences which actually stand fairly apart. Smith, 1 following Arrian (V.8), Diodorus (XVII.87) and Curtius (VII.12, 13), 2 speaks of Alexander's "stay in his comfortable quarters at Taxila for a sufficient time to rest his army". Then the march to the Hydaspes (Jhelum) took, by Smith's calculation, 3 ... described by Arrian (V.9.10): 5 at least a month may be supposed. Aristobulus slurs over all these things. He slurs similarly over intervals prior to the Indus-crossing. Smith, 6 quoting Curtius (VIII. 12), 7 writes that, having left the mountainous country, Alexander "arrived at the Indus after the sixteenth encampment" - that is, at the end of 16 days of marching "through the forests down... of the sun into the Zodiacal sign with which the year commences. 2 At present the former conjunction is used in Southern India, the latter in Northern. 3 About the India known to Megasthenes, Curtius (VIII.9) 4 has preserved the information that the Indians "mark the divisions of time by the course of the moon not like most nations when the planet shows a full face but when she begins to appear ...
... afterwards. But the order is of little significance - first, when we set over against it the same historical material presented by Curtius (c. 40 A.D.) and Plutarch (c. 50 A.D.) and then when we look at Diodorus's own other references to the same situation. Curtius (IX.2) 2 writes in the course of his account: "Next came the Ganges, the largest river in all India, the farther bank of which... reads: "...its farther banks were covered all over with armed men, horses and elephants, for the kings of the Gandaritai and the Praisiai were reported to be waiting for (Alexander)..." Both Curtius and Plutarch reverse Diodorus's order. And Diodorus himself, going on to say more about King Xandrames, has the words: 4 "...the king of the Gandaridai..." He omits the Prasioi altogether, as if... Ibid., p. 172. Page 155 some manner of speaking the Prasioi's." Such a conclusion is lent strong colour by Plutarch's plural, "kings", instead of the singular of Diodorus and Curtius: Plutarch signifies different kings for the two peoples. However, we must take stock of what Plutarch 1 writes a little later of the youth "Androcottus" ("Sandrocottus" in Strabo, Pliny ...
... must needs attend to his person' (McCrindle, p. 72). Curtius (VIII.9) adds: 'The palace is open to all comers, even when the king is having his hair combed and dressed. It is then that he gives audience to ambassadors and administers justice to his subjects' (lb., Ancient India, p. 58, n.)." Sandrocottus, according to Megasthenes and Curtius, did exact - 1. The Age of Imperial Unity, ... figs but a sophist, only to be reminded that it was not lawful in Greece to sell a sophist! Drawing upon Megasthenes or some of Alexander's generals, the Classical writers Diodorus, Strabo, Pliny, Curtius, Arrian and Aelian have left us histories chockful of facts and fables about India. But after Sandrocottus and Amitrachates we get no name of any king of their line. Such neglect is in itself a little... Egypt, and we can fully credit another piece of information by Rajendralala Mitra: 2 in the monuments of that dynasty under Tutmosis III and IV and Amenophis HI, the term "Uinim" which, according to Curtius' History of Greece (Ward's translation, 1, p. 45), is the oldest form of "Ionia" is used for all foreign subjects of the Pharaohs. The implication here is not only that Uinim, occurring so much earlier ...
... comparing to the Page 116 style and the sound here those of the famous finale of Francis Thompson's sonnet The Heart. Thompson recalls the act of that fierce Roman patriot Sextus Curtius who jumped, horse-backed and full-armoured, into the deep trench which according to the augurs had to be filled with what Rome deemed most precious if she was to escape heavenly punishment. Thompson... image magnificently profound about the human heart's unrealised grandeur: The world, from star to sea, cast down its brink — Yet shall that chasm, till He who these did build An awful Curtius make Him, yawn unfilled. As sheer poetry this is equal to the Aurobindonian lines and the spiritual word-significance is as admirable. Word-significance, however, is not the sole ingredient of ...
... absorption of the occult by comparing to the style and the sound here those of the famous finale of Francis Thompson's sonnet The Heart. Thompson recalls the act of that fierce Roman patriot Sextus Curtius who jumped, horse-backed and full-armoured, into the deep trench which according to the augurs had to be Page 20 filled with what Rome deemed most precious if she was to escape heavenly... image magnificently profound about the human heart's unrealised grandeur: The world, from star to sea, cast down its brink — Yet shall that chasm, till He who these did build An awful Curtius make Him, yawn unfilled. As sheer poetry this is equal to the Aurobindonian lines and the spiritual word-significance is as admirable. Word-significance, however, is not the sole ingredient ...
... Topography, 420, 421, 506, 548 Cottrell, Leonard, 332 Cretans, 247 Croesus of Lydia, 252, 465, 482-3 Cumont, 445 Cunningham, A., 84, 105, 132, 133, 165, 425, 447 Curtius: History of Greece, 258 Curtius, 100, 112, 114, 115, 117, 155, 156, 175, 177, 181, 184, 238, 245, 271 Cyprus, 258 Cyrus, 55, 56, 225, 251, 252, 331, 464, 465, 467, 468, 482-3, 594, 595 ...
... from star to sea, cast down its brink— Yet shall that chasm, till He who these did build An awful Curtius make Him, yawn unfilled. The comparison is interesting particularly because, while it is certain that Sri Aurobindo knew of the act of the fierce Roman patriot Sextus Curtius who jumped, horse-backed and full-armoured, into the deep trench which according to the augurs had to be packed ...
... sea, cast down its brink– Yet shall that chasm, till He who these did build An awful Curtius make Him yawn unfilled. Page 108 The comparison is interesting particularly because, while it is certain that Sri Aurobindo knew of the act of the fierce Roman patriot Sextus Curtius who jumped, horse-backed and full-armoured, into the deep trench which according to the augurs ...
... prone, in order to avoid the appearance of them in himself, to cover himself with a jest at every step; it is at once his mask and his defence. At bottom he has the possibility in him of a modern Curtius leaping into the yawning pit for a cause, a Utopist or a Don Quixote,— according to occasions a fighter for dreams, an idealistic pugilist, a knight-errant, a pugnacious rebel or a reckless but often ...
... prone, in order to avoid the appearance of them in himself, to cover himself with a jest at every step; it is at once his mask and his defence. At bottom he has the possibility in him of a modern Curtius leaping into the yawning pit for a cause, an Utopist or a Don Quixote,—according to occasion a fighter for dreams, an idealistic pugilist, a knight errant, a pugnacious rebel or a brilliant sharp-minded ...
... Herodotus (1,125) is the first to mention the people called Dáoi, as a nomadic tribe of the Persians. More accurate information on them, however, is delivered by Alexander's historians. According to Q. Curtius Rufus (8,3) and Ptolemy's Geography (6,10,2), the Dahas lived on the lower course of the river Margos (modern Murghab) or in the northern steppe area of Margiana. Pomponius Mela (3,42), based on ...
... Purukutsa, 283, 286-90, 326, 330, 335, 354 Puru, 338, 354, 355 Purus, 254, 283 Pusalker, A.D., 157, 347-8, 353 Pusan, 251, 296, 363, 394, 395 Q. Curtius Rufus, 206 Quetta, 227, 231, 293 radiocarbon dates, see C-14 datings Raikes, Robert L., 191, 192 Rajasthan, 239, 240 Rajasthani chalcolithic culture, 214 ...
... and bells, then for a new kind of mocking Hebrew prophet or Puritan reformer! Needless to say, both judgments were entirely out of focus.... At bottom he has the possibility in him of a modern Curtius, leaping into the yawning pit for a cause, a Utopist or a Don Quixote, - according to occasions, a fighter for dreams, an idealistic pugilist, a knight-errant, a pugnacious rebel or a brilliant sh ...
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