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Diodorus Siculus

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

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Diodorus Siculus

He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.

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Diodorus Siculus

Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.

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Diodorus Siculus

Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.

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Diodorus Siculus

Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were primeval and eternal; and they called the former Osiris, the latter Isis.

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Diodorus Siculus

It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.