 | Herodotus - 1858 - 746 pàgines
...father should perish by the hands of his child. 139. They hold it unlawful to talk of anything which it is unlawful to do. The most disgraceful thing in the world, they think, is to tell a lie ; the next worst, to owe a debt : because, among other reasons, the debtor is obliged to tell lies. If a Persian... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 754 pàgines
...father should perish by the hands of his child. 139. They hold it unlawful to talk of anything which it is unlawful to do. The most disgraceful thing in the world, they think, is to tell a lie ; the next worst, to owe a debt : because, among other reasons, the debtor is obliged to tell lies. If a Persian... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1915 - 436 pàgines
...guard their tongues. In the words of Herodotus : ' They hold it unlawful to talk of anything that it is unlawful to do. The most disgraceful thing in the world, they think, is to tell a lie ; $he next worst to owe a debt, because, among other reasons, the debtor is obliged to tell lies.'... | |
 | Hutton Webster, Ph.d - 1913 - 316 pàgines
...are found to outweigh the former, the aggrieved party only then shall proceed to punishment. . . . The most disgraceful thing in the world, they think, is to tell a lie; the next worst, to owe a debt; because, among other reasons, the debtor is obliged to tell lies. If a Persian... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1913 - 296 pàgines
...are found to outweigh the former, the aggrieved party only then shall proceed to punishment. . . . The most disgraceful thing in the world, they think, is to tell a lie; the next worst, to owe a debt; because, among other reasons, the debtor is obliged to tell lies. If a Persian... | |
 | Herodotus - 1996 - 772 pàgines
...father should perish by the hands of his child. 139. They hold it unlawful to talk of anything which it is unlawful to do. The most disgraceful thing in the world, they think, is to tell a lie; the next worst, to owe a debt: because, among other reasons, the debtor is obliged to tell lies. If a Persian... | |
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They hold it unlawful to talk of anything which it is unlawful to do. The most disgraceful thing in the world, they think, is to tell a lie; the next worst, to owe a debt: because, among other reasons, the debtor is obliged to tell lies. 