How To Use gymnosophist In A Sentence
- “Not so, O king,” replied the gymnosophist, “unless you said falsely that he should die first who made the worst answer.” The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- But there is this about some women, which overtops the best gymnosophist among men, that they suffice to themselves, and can walk in a high and cold zone without the countenance of any trousered being. An Inland Voyage
- [691-1] Pilpay is supposed to have been a Brahmin gymnosophist, and to have lived several centuries before Christ. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
- Among others to take a keen interest in the gymnosophists was Pyrrho, founder of the philosophical school known as the Sceptics.
- There he is said to have encountered the ‘gymnosophists’ and ‘magi’ who were thought to have influenced his later philosophical views.
- But there is this about some women, which overtops the best gymnosophist among men, that they suffice themselves, and can walk in a high and cold zone without the countenance of any trousered being. The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson
- As that gymnosophist in [1571] Plutarch made answer to Alexander Anatomy of Melancholy
- The episode of Alexander's interview with the gymnosophists has come down to us in several versions, among which the one in Plutarch's Vita Alexandri is the most renowned.
- There was a probable purpose in his writing: to propagandize for the gentle philosophy of the gymnosophists, an obscure ascetic Hindu sect, and to proclaim the humanity, culture and martial skill of the dark-skinned Ethiopians.
- Then returning to Alexandria he made his way to Ethiopia to see the gymnosophists and the famous table of the sun spread in the sands of the desert.
