"Arete" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... looking about at the different parts above them, marking out the way they would go when they had mastered the arete, and then returned to Saxe, who was lying ...
— The Crystal Hunters - A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps • George Manville Fenn
... holding back, refused to let him relieve her. The dreaded angle which had haunted de Spain all night was safely turned on hands and knees and, as they rounded it toward the east, clouds scudding over the open desert broke and shot the light of dawn against the beetling arete. ...
— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman
... Timoleon's actions, that for want of a word from him these poor creatures should have perished. He seems not to have interfered, and to have let the people give full vent to their desire to avenge Dion, who dethroned Dionysius. For Hiketes was the man who threw Dion's wife Arete alive into the sea, with her sister Aristomache and her little son, as is told ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch
... and frustrated the operations against Dionysius. At last, Ortygia surrendered to Dion, who entered the fortress, where he found his wife and sister, from whom he had been separated twelve years. At first, Arete, his wife, who had consented to marry Timocrates, was afraid to approach him, but he received her with the tenderest emotion and affection. His son, however, soon after died, having fallen into the ...
— Ancient States and Empires • John Lord |
