 Philip, at the price of thirteen talents,* the king, with the prince and many others, went into the field to see some trial made of him. The horse appeared extremely vicious and unmanageable, and was so far from suffering himself to be mounted, that he...  Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne - Page 450by Plutarchus - 1813Full view - About this book
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 348 pages
...compared with the account df Taverneir, that some horses ia Arabia were valued at a bundled tke king with the prince and many others went into the field to see some trial made of him. The animal appeared extremely vicious and unmanageable, and was so far from suffering himself to be mounted,... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1821 - 350 pages
...offered the horse named Bucephalus in sale to Philip, at the price of thirteen talents*, the king, with the prince and many others, went into the field...extremely vicious and unmanageable, and was so far from sufHe had a number of tutors and preceptors. Leonidas, a relation of the queen's, and a man of great... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 550 pages
...offered the horse named Bucephalus in sale to Philip, at the price of thirteen talents,* the king, with the prince, and many others, went into the field...displeased at their bringing him so wild and ungovernable ahorse, and bade them take him away. But Alexander, who had observed him well, said, — " What a horse... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 392 pages
...king with the prince and many others went into the field to see some trial made of him. The animal appeared extremely vicious and unmanageable, and was...would not bear to be spoken to, but turned fiercely upoa all the grooms. Philip was displeased at their bringing him so wild and ungovernable a horse,... | |
 | Seymour fict. family - 1824 - 926 pages
...offered the horse, named Bucephalus, in sale to Philip, at the price of thirteen talents, the king, with the prince and many others, went into the field...displeased at their bringing him so wild and ungovernable a horse, and bade them take him away ; but Alexander, who had observed him well, said—' What a horse... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1828 - 484 pages
...offered the horse named Bucephalus in sale to Philip, at the price of thirteen talents,* the king, with the prince, and many others, went into the field...suffering himself to be mounted, that he would not hear to be spoken to, but turned fiercely upon all the grooms. Philip was displeased at their bringing... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1832 - 446 pages
...offered the horse named Buce phalus in sale to Philip, at the price of thirteen talents,* the king, with the prince and many others, went into the field...displeased at their bringing him so wild and ungovernable a horse, and bade them take him away. But Alexander, who had observed him well, said, " What a horse... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1832 - 444 pages
...offered the horse named Bucephalus in sale to Philip, at the price of thirteen talents,* the king, with the prince and many others, went into the field...displeased at their bringing him so wild and ungovernable a horse, and bade them take him away. But Alexander, who had observed him well, said, " What a horse... | |
 | Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough - Biography - 1905
...offered the horse named Bucephalus in sale to Philip, at the price of thirteen talents,* the king, with the prince, and many others, went into the field...displeased at their bringing him so wild and ungovernable a horse, and bade them take him away. But Alexander, who had observed him well, said,—"What a horse... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1841 - 490 pages
...offered the horse named Bucephalus in sale to Philip, at the price of thirteen talents,* the king, with the prince, and many others, went into the field...would not bear to be spoken to, but turned fiercely ufion all the grooms. Philip was displeased at their bringing him so wild and ungovernable a horse,... | |
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