Sentence examples for ancient persons from inspiring English sources
The widespread use of computers in classical studies, enabling the comparison of ancient persons, and the compiling of information about each of them from disparate sources, has made incontrovertible this observation about Xenophon's Socratic works.
Aristotle mentions that some more ancient persons placed great importance on water (Metaphysics 983b27 33), like Thales himself, and then later raises the question of whether perhaps Hesiod was the first to look for a cause of motion and change (984b23ff).
So the ancient persons located the acupoints through the state changes.
I did not believe I would ever be this ancient person.
Now here's another puzzle: to find a word for that special case of retrojection where a scholar claims that because a thinker from the past never used the modern word, the ancient person never held beliefs consistent with the modern concept.
The second century CE Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was also a Stoic philosopher, and his private Meditations, written in Greek, gives readers a unique opportunity to see how an ancient person (indeed an emperor) might try to live a Stoic life, according to which only virtue is good, only vice is bad, and the things which we busy ourselves with are all indifferent.
Ancient person, for whom I All the fluttering youths defy, Long be it ere thou grow old, Aching, shaking, crazy, cold, But still continue as thou art, Ancient person of my heart.
The specifics of what ancient person has what magic power according to whatever secret text is simply a distraction.
But for me the person trying to relate to an ancient person that represented their community they were seen as a demon, and even my reaction [to that] is connected to colonialism.
Aside from the obvious problem of using a single historical figure as a moral barometer, there's another troubling issue at hand: Folks are arguing about the opinions of an ancient person without stopping to verify his existence.
"I'm going to sound like an ancient person, but I was rather shocked at what they can show on TV now!" MacDowell isn't the only one to criticize the sexual graphicness of "Girls" (though feminist icon Gloria Steinem loved it), but with "Cedar Cove" being picked up for a second season she probably won't have too much spare time to catch the second season of "Girls" anyway.
